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©ICD/ITKE, Photograph by Burggraf / Reichert
Project Information
Address Keplerstr. 11-17, 70174 Stuttgart
Completion March 2017
Area 26.5 m²
Volume 58 m³
Fibre length 184 km
Weight 1000 Kg
Overall dimensions 12.0m x 2.6m x 3.1m
More information:
http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de
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ICD/ITKE RESEARCH PAVILION 2016-17 - STUTTGART 2017
- Development Process of the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning
The Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart have completed a new research pavilion exploring building-scale fabrication of glass and carbon fibre-reinforced composites. The novel process is based on the unique affordances and characteristics of fibre construction. Because these materials are lightweight and have high tensile strength, a radically different approach to fabrication becomes possible, which combines low-payload yet long-range machines, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), with strong, precise, yet limited reach, industrial robots. This collaborative concept enables a scalable fabrication setup for long span fibre composite construction. The research builds on a series of successful pavilions, which investigate integrative computational design, engineering and fabrication, and explores their spatial ramifications and construction possibilities. The project was designed and fabricated by students and researchers within an interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers and biologists.
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Posted 19 April 2017
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Lightweight, Long Span Fibrous Construction
Fibre composite materials have tremendous potential in architectural applications. Due to performative material characteristics, they are readily used in highly engineered applications, such as in the automotive and aerospace industries. The potentials within architecture, however, remain still largely unexplored.
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©ICD/ITKE, Photograph by Burggraf / Reichert
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Multi-Machine Cyber-Physical Fabrication
Creating a long span structure, beyond the working space of standard industrial fabrication equipment, required a collaborative setup where multiple robotic systems could interface and communicate to create a seamless fibre laying process. A fibre could be passed between multiple machines to ensure a continuous material structure. The concept of the fabrication process is based on the collaboration
between strong and precise, yet stationary machines with limited reach and mobile, long-range machines with limited precision. In the specific experimental set-up, two stationary industrial robotic arms with the strength and precision necessary for fibre winding work are placed at the extremities of the structure, while an autonomous, long range but less precise fibre transportation system is utilized to pass the fibre from one side to the other, in this case a custom-built UAV.
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©ICD/ITKE, Photograph by Burggraf / Reichert
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Integrative Demonstrator
The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 was created by laying a combined total of 184 km of resin-impregnated glass and carbon fibre. The lightweight material system was employed to create and test a single long spanning cantilever with an overall length of 12 m as an extreme structural scenario. The surface covers an area of about 40 m² and weighs roughly 1000 Kg. The realized structure was manufactured offsite and thus the size was constrained to fit within an allowable transport volume. However, variations of the setup were found suitable for on-site or in situ fabrication, which could be utilized for much longer span and larger fibre composite structures.
The pavilion’s overall geometry demonstrates the possibilities for fabricating structural morphologies through multi-stage volumetric fibre winding, reducing unnecessary formwork through an integrated bending-active composite frame, and increasing the possible scale and span of construction through integrating robotic and autonomous lightweight UAV fabrication processes. It explores how future construction scenarios may evolve to included distributed, collaborative and adaptive systems. This research showcases the potential of computational design and construction through the incorporation of structural capacities, material behaviour, fabrication logics, biological principles and architectural design constraints into integrative computational design and construction. The prototypical pavilion is a proof-of-concept for a scalable fabrication processes of long-span, fibre composite structural elements, suitable for architectural applications.
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Project TeamICD Institute for Computational Design and Construction – Prof. Achim Menges ITKE Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design – Prof. Jan Knippers Scientific Development Benjamin Felbrich, Nikolas Früh, Marshall Prado, Sam Saffarian, James Solly, Daniel Reist, Lauren Vasey System Development, Fabrication and Construction Miguel Aflalo, Bahar Al Bahar, Lotte Aldinger, Chris Arias, Léonard Balas, Jingcheng Chen, Federico Forestiero, Dominga Garufi, Pedro Giachini, Kyriaki Goti, Sachin Gupta, Olga Kalina, Shir Katz, Bruno Knychalla, Shamil Lallani, Patricio Lara, Ayoub Lharchi, Dongyuan Liu, Yencheng Lu, Georgia Margariti, Alexandre Mballa, Behrooz Tahanzadeh, Hans Jakob Wagner, Benedikt Wannemacher, Nikolaos Xenos, Andre Zolnerkevic, Paula Baptista, Kevin Croneigh, Tatsunori Shibuya, Nicoló Temperi, Manon Uhlen, Li Wenhan. With the support of Artyom Maxim and Michael Preisack. In collaboration with: Institute of Aircraft Design (IFB) – Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Middendorf, Markus Blandl, Florian Gnädinger Institute of Engineering Geodesy (IIGS) – Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Volker Schwieger, Otto Lerke Department of Evolutionary Biology of Invertebrates, University of Tuebingen – Prof. Oliver Betz Department of Palaeontology of Invertebrates, University of Tuebingen – Prof. James Nebelsick
Supported by
Volkswagen Stiftung
GETTYLAB
Kuka Roboter GmbH
Peri GmbH
SGL Technologies GmbH
Hexion Stuttgart GmbH
Ed. Züblin AG
Lange Ritter GmbH
Stahlbau Wendeler GmbH
Leica Geosystems GmbH
KOFI GmbH
Researchers on this project have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodoska-Curie grant agreement No 642877, from the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 141 of the German Research Foundation and from the Volkswagen Stiftung’s Experiment! funding programme.
More information:
http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de
http://www.itke.uni-stuttgart.de
See the Article in Glass is more!>
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012
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Unloading of long-span fiber composite structure onsite
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