For this semester’s ‘Robotic Fabrication in Architecture’ course our team will be exploring foam contour crafting techniques using Tcaup’s KUKA 6-axis industrial mill. Precedents for this technique have been under development since last fall, however similar processes used in concrete contour crafting have been explored for the past couple of years, most notably in the […]

6-axis robotic milling of log at Taubman School of Architecture at the University of Michigan.

Two projects of particular interest by Ariel Schwartz and Mike Chino. Archimorph began researching similar topics, using Bacillus pasteurii, also known as the cementer bug in 2007 as a ‘natural 3d printing device’ which would create habitable structures out of sand. Seed bombing technologies have also been of interest since early 2009 in the attempt […]

Initial phases for a project which houses educational facilities, analytical labs, and a watershed council office. The buildings membrane, in on form or another, will focus on the collection and filtration of non-point runoff and river water, which will be collected to cultivate algal blooms –producing biomass energy. More on the project will be released […]

We have been interested in ANTS for some time, and were looking at this technology in development by NASA at the start of the IaaC2 competition in 2007. This time around ANTS is being looked at again for the Huron Rivershed project: autonomous swarms. This technology offers a multitude of opportunities for building technology in […]

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, Inc from Jp Frenay on Vimeo. an interesting video by Jean-Paul Frenay

“Every hyperlink is a point of departure and a destination.” In the Hyperlink school of the future rooms will visually transform into any subject or topic necessary or desired. Students will teach the building how to be the appropriate school for them. The transmission of knowledge does not end at the student. It is rapidly […]

NERVOUSystem The network culture we inhabit is marked by the individual entrenched in reading, conversing electronically, surfing the internet, and watching television, all deeply embedded in the virtual. Individuals now use space as a common meeting place, mainly to share information, often initiated through the various electronic mediums. Within these social gatherings information is being […]

Competition layout for the Life Cycle Building Challenge 2. This is Archimorphs second year entering in the competition. OPEN is a project based off the idea that solving the problems of the many, by the many, through open source, peer-to-peer cooperation will solve our problems. Sustainable housing solutions will come from the help and cooperation […]