Project Title:

Robotic Timber Assembly

Published:

Construction Robotics 2020

Robotic Timber Assembly used a custom assembly ruleset to fabricate and assemble large wood timbers in the traditional Japanese Chidori fashion. This automated method could both assemble and disassemble structures, allowing the components to be continually reused in other designs.

This project explored the potential for the automation of endlessly reconfigurable architectural spaces.

Robotic Timber Assembly was done in collaboration with Julia Koerner, Michael Pickoff, and Nichole Tortorici.

The peer-reviewed paper was published in Construction Robotics and can be found here.
KUKA prc (robot simulation, code generation) Grasshopper (parametric constraints, structure design) CNC milling (timber and base fabrication)