In 2016, archi-union architects and fab-union intelligent engineering completed the renovation of the art gallery in Shanghai, China. The distinctive feature of the building was the robotic masonry fabrication of the brick facades. The undulating and waving parametric bricks were increasingly becoming popular after the introduction of parametric design tools such as Grasshopper and the works of Gramazio & Kohler at ETH Zurich since 2008, I guess. I made two […]
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This is the continuation of the brick wall study. But this time I am starting with fundamental and easy steps. You may remember this parametric brickwork from the famous “Programmed Wall” of ETH and Gramazio Kohler Research, and the Mullberry House facade of SHOP architects. First, I studied the easiest possible way to place boxes on a surface; However, this was not the correct layout. But worst of all, some bricks […]
There are a couple of experiments in different schools about organizing free-form surfaces (walls here) with a composition of modular elements (bricks). Even though they created robots to make such brick walls, I still couldn’t understand why. Although creating a parametric model that calculates the exact locations of bricks, seems very easy at first sight, there came severe problems to solve in order to achieve a correct layout without using […]