Evolving. Digital Materiality In Landscape Architecture -- Towards Bio-Technological Indeterminacy: Or How To Shovel With Pleasure To Care For The World... -- The State Of Play: Digging In The Sandbox Of All The Worlds -- The Storm, The Architect, And The Robot: Landscape Maintenance In The Age Of Robotic Intelligence -- FOUNDATION -- Autonomous Earthmoving -- Modeling The Field -- Simulating Material Formation -- The Robotic Sketchbox -- Topographic Intricacies -- OPERATION -- Surveying -- Prototyping -- Processing -- Manipulating -- Simulating -- Evolving.
Summary:
The Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich has been researching the integration of robots into the architectural practice, both in design and the fabrication process, for some time. This book created in collaboration with the chair of Christophe Girot, Gramazio Kohler Research, and Marco Hutter at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab is the first to investigate the use of robot-based construction equipment for large-scale soil grading in landscape architecture. As landscapes are continuously changing due to ever-changing environmental conditions, the application of autonomous systems that respond to the environment rather than perform predefined and static earthwork is of particular interest in this field. Robotic Landscapes sheds light on a series of groundbreaking experiments in an interdisciplinary collaboration of landscape design, environmental engineering, and robotics that aims to make landscape architecture sustainable and ecological in the long term. Contributions by Mathias Bernhard, Dana Cupkova, Fujan Fahmi, Christophe Girot, Fabio Gramazio, Francesca Hughes, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Marco Hutter, Dominic Jud, Matthias Kohler, Benedikt Kowalewski, Jesús Medina, Ammar Mirjan.
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