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Book SynopsisWe are now on the brink of a new era in construction that of autonomous assembly. For some time, the widespread adoption of robotic and digital fabrication technologies has made it possible for architects and academic researchers to design non-standard, highly customised structures. These technologies have largely been limited by scalability, focusing mainly on top-down, bespoke fabrication projects, such as experimental pavilions and structures. Autonomous assembly and bottom-up construction techniques hold the promise of greater scalability, adaptability and potentially evolved design possibilities. By capitalising on the advances made in swarm robotics, the collective construction of the animal/insect kingdom, and advances in physical computational, programmable materials or self-assembly, architects and designers are now able to build from the bottom up. This issue presents future scenarios of autonomous assembly by highlighting the viability of decentralised, collective assemb
Table of Contents
About the Guest-Editor 05
Skylar Tibbits
Introduction From Automated to Autonomous Assembly 06
Skylar Tibits
Combinatorial Commons
Social Remixing in a Sharing Economy 16
Jose Sanchez
How Specific Interactions Drive the Complex Organisation of Building Blocks 22
Zorana Zeravcic
From Self-Assembly to Evolutionary Structures 28
Athina Papadopoulou, Jared Laucks and Skylar Tibbits
The Vanishing Actor
How to Let Things Happen: The Art of Order Without Orders 38
Robin Meier and Bastien Gallet
Complex Design by Simple Robots
A Collective Embodied Intelligence Approach to Construction 44
Kirstin Petersen and Radhika Nagpal
Crowd-Driven Pattern Formation
Computational Strategies for Large-Scale Design and Assembly 50
Marcelo Coelho and Tovi Grossman
The Immersive
Stagecraft to Urbanism 60
Simon Kim and Mariana Ibañez
Baskets and Architecture
Ritualisitic Making and Collective Design 66
Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch
Aleatory Construction Based on Jamming
Stability Through Self-Confinement 74
Kieran Murphy, Leah Roth, Dan Peterman and Heinrich Jaeger
Granular Jamming of Loadbearing and Reversible Structures
Rock Print and Rock Wall 82
Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, Schendy Kernizan, Björn Sparrman, Jared Laucks and Skylar Tibbits
Granular Construction
Designed Particles for Macro-Scale Architectural Structures 88
Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges
Distributed Structures
Digital Tools for Collective Design 94
Caitlin Mueller
Compressive Assemblies
Bottom-Up Performance for a New Form of Construction 104
Philippe Block, Matthias Rippmann and Tom Van Mele
Disarmed Strategies
New Machines and Techniques for an Era of Computational Contextualism in Architecture 110
Hannes Mayer, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler
2060
An Autonomously Crafted Built Environment 120
Alvise Simondetti, Chris Luebkeman and Gereon Uerz
Counterpoint
Autonomous Assembly as the Fourth Approach to Generic Construction 128
Andong Lu
Contributors 134
