Product details

Art.No:

74209

Author / Artist:

Gramazio, Fabio u. Matthias Kohler, Raffaello d’Andrea

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea

Keyword:

Architektur - ArchitektInnen

Binding / Picture Size:

Brosch.

Publisher:

HYX

Place of publishing:

Orléans

Year of publication:

2013

Book Details / Size:

8°, 166 S., zahlr., tlw. farb. Abb., Pläne

Condition:

Tadellos.

Description:

EA. (= Collection Frac Center). Text frz./engl. - «Flight Assembled Architecture is the first architectural installation assembled by flying robots, free from the touch of human hands. The installation is an expression of a rigorous architectural design by Gramazio & Kohler and a visionary robotic system by Raffaello D’Andrea. Flight Assembled Architecture consists of over 1.500 modules which are placed by a multitude of quadrotor helicopters, collaborating according to mathematical algorithms that translate digital design data to the behavior of the flying machines. In this way, the flying vehicles, together, extend themselves as “living” architectural machines and complete the composition from their dynamic formation of movement and building performance. Within the build, an architectural vision of a 600m high “vertical village” for 30’000 inhabitants unfolds as model in 1:100 scale. This newly founded village is located in the rural area of Meuse, taking advantage of an existing TGV connection that brings its inhabitants to Paris in less than one hour. It is from this quest of an “ideal” self-sustaining habitat that the authors pursue a radical new way of thinking and materializing verticality in architecture, Flight Assembled Architecture.»