HOUSTON: Combining robotic fabrication with 3D printing offers “amazing” opportunities for architecture and could help solve the global refugee crisis, according to Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix.
The Austrian architect is pioneering the use of robots at one of his latest projects – the Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) in Shenzhen.
A team of robots will assemble the museum’s irregularly curved stainless-steel centre, saving time and money. Led by a building information modelling (BIM) system, they will mould, assemble, weld and polish the hyperbolic metal plates…..