Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished
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2021
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Robotic earthmoving equipment is dramatically changing the way landscapes can be formed and maintained. Landscapes evolve through constantly changing conditions, and a dynamic response to natural environments can never be considered final. Autonomous systems can enable this adaptive and continuous transformation of terrain instead of simply creating predefined and static earthworks. Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished opens up insights into landscape design’s evolving culture by proposing a new equilibrium between natural and mechanical forces. Reflecting on a series of design research experiments on granular materials at the department of architecture at ETH Zurich, this book is designed to demonstrate the importance of successive design iterations in framing, forming, and finding. Each page reveals computational procedures where functional terrain structures emerge, each capable of sustaining a dynamic landscape that is forever changing.
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Park Books
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robotic landscapes; digital fabrication; natural hazards; earthmoving; dynamic systems; landscape architecture
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03709 - Kohler, Matthias / Kohler, Matthias
03708 - Gramazio, Fabio / Gramazio, Fabio
09570 - Hutter, Marco / Hutter, Marco
03578 - Girot, Christophe (emeritus) / Girot, Christophe (emeritus)
02284 - NFS Digitale Fabrikation / NCCR Digital Fabrication
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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-- - NCCR Digital Fabrication (SNF)