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Robotic Fabrication of Small-Diameter Whole Timber for Construction Systems in a Plantation Forestry Context
The Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction (MRAC) seeks to train a new generation of interdisciplinary professionals who are capable of facing our growing need for a more sustainable and optimised construction ecosystem. The Master is focused on the emerging design and market opportunities arising from novel robotic and advanced manufacturing systems.
Through a mixture of seminars, workshops, and studio projects, the master programme challenges the traditional processes in the Construction Sector. It investigates how advances in robotics and digital fabrication tools change the way we build and develop processes and design tools for such new production methods.
Robotics for Ecological Buildings : WOOD
Catalonia is 50.6% forest. Within that territory, Aleppo Pine and Common Beech offer two contrasting structural profiles that can be processed with minimal industrial transformation — provided the right techniques are recovered and updated. This mid-term review documents the first half of our Studio II research into robotic steam-bending: a workflow that pairs a vernacular … Read more
Robotics for Ecological Buildings: STRAW
This work investigates the structural potential of straw in its raw, unprocessed state — exploiting its natural wilderness and fibrous friction to build systems from its inherent properties. By coupling these material behaviors with robotic fabrication, the process becomes parameterized, enabling a vernacular material to be deployed within a precise and predictable architectural system. Introduction … Read more
The Massage Chair
The massage chair is an experiment in digital fabrication and hybrid workflows, using computational design, CNC milling, 6-axis robotic milling, and human assembly and finishing, to understand how different subtractive manufacturing processes can be combined to balance speed, precision, and material expression in digital fabrication. Materials Tools Used Early Designs Early explorations of designs in … Read more
