Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea
Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month.
Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea
Created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, the mobile machines will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to build a 3.5 metre wide structure.
Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea
The installation will be on show from 2 December 2011 to 19 February 2012.
Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea
Gramazio & Kohler previously used a robot called R-O-B to build a looping wall in New York and the award-winning Structural Oscillations installation at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale – more details and photos in our earlier story.
Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea
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