Standardizing Non-Homogeneous Wood for Robotic Stack Assembly and Disassembly

Team member(s): Teodora Popescu, André Arruda Navarro, Akshay Khaneja and Geetham Pasumarty
Modified by Teodora Popescu on November 19, 2024

How can reclaimed timber waste from manufacturing be leveraged using robotic fabrication and computational design to develop sustainable, scalable and customizable urban installation?

Process of Sorting & Splitting the Beams

Geometry Distribution

Workflow

Assembly

Robotic Setup for Processing

Robotic Processing

Concept Prototype

AI-Generated Concept Renders

Standardizing Non-Homogeneous Wood for Robotic Stack Assembly and Disassembly is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the Master in Advanced Architecture 02 - 2024-2025 by the student(s) Teodora Popescu, André Arruda Navarro, Akshay Khaneja and Geetham Pasumarty during the course MAA02 MAEBB02 MRAC02 24/25 Robotic Fabrication with Valentino Tagliaboschi and Tom Svilans.