The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the FRAC Cultural Centre in Orléans, France has commissioned a 3 month exhibition entitled “Flight Assembled Architecture”. It runs from 01.12.2011-26.02.2012 and claims to be the first architectural installation to be built dynamically by flying machines and demonstrates a revolutionary assembly apparatus, addressing radical new ways of thinking and materializing architecture based on cutting-edge innovation and rigorous spatial and structural articulations.
In 2011, architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea started to develop a pioneering approach on dynamic material formation and machine behaviour. Belonging to the generation of young architects aiming at using the full potential of digital design and fabrication, Gramazio & Kohler joined with Raffaello D’Andrea whose work addresses ground-breaking autonomous systems design and algorithms. Together, they started to explore the possibilities of a revolutionary assembly apparatus and reveal with their collaboration unseen spatial and structural articulations based on the innovation of Flight Assembled Architecture.
Flight Assembled Architecture is the first installation to be built by flying machines. Conceived as an architectural structure at a scale of a 600 m high “vertical village”, the installation addresses radical new ways of thinking and materializing architecture as a physical process of dynamic formation. Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea developed a powerful expression of cutting-edge innovation that uses a multitude of mobile agents working in parallel and acting together as scalable production means.
Those are programmed to interact, lift, transport and assemble small modules in order to erect a building structure that synthesizes a rigorous architectural approach by Gramazio & Kohler and a visionary autonomous system design by Raffaello D’Andrea.
All Photos: (c) Gramazio & Kohler
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