Robotic Landscapes

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Dynamic robot-based planning and execution tools open up previously inconceivable design possibilities in the landscape architecture of the 21st century

The Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich has been researching the integration of robots into the architectural practice, both in design and the fabrication process, for some time. This book—created in collaboration with the chair of Christophe Girot, Gramazio Kohler Research, and Marco Hutter at ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab—is the first to investigate the use of robot-based construction equipment for large-scale soil grading in landscape architecture. As landscapes are continuously changing due to ever-changing environmental conditions, the application of autonomous systems that respond to the environment rather than perform predefined and static earthwork is of particular interest in this field.

Robotic Landscapes sheds light on a series of groundbreaking experiments in an interdisciplinary collaboration of landscape design, environmental engineering, and robotics that aims to make landscape architecture sustainable and ecological in the long term.

• Erstes Buch zum Thema Einsatz von Robotern in der Landschaftsarchitektur
• Präsentiert neue, dynamische Entwurfsmethoden und bislang undenkbare Szenarien der Umsetzung
• Zeigt auf, wie digitales Entwerfen und die roboterbasierte Ausführung von Landschaftsgestaltungen in Zeiten des Klimawandels zu sicheren und resilienten Lösungen führen kann
• Stellt Alternativen zu bisherigen Strategien der Abwehr von Naturgefahren vor, die sich an fortschreitende Veränderungen im Gelände anpassen lassen

• The first book on the use of robotic technology in landscape design that introduces new, dynamic methods and previously inconceivable scenarios for implementation
• Demonstrates how digital design and robotic execution of landscape designs result in safe and resilient solutions in the age of climate change
• Presents alternatives to current natural-hazard-mitigation strategies that can be adapted to progressive changes in the terrain

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Ilmar Hurkxkens

Themen in »Robotic Landscapes«

Robots Roboter ETH Zürich Fujan Fahmi Landscaping Ammar Mirjan Marco Hutter Umwelttechnik Fabio Gramazio Digital drawing Ilmar Hurkxkens Matthias Kohler Christophe Girot Digitales Entwerfen Landschaftsgestaltung

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«[…] eine klare Empfehlung für alle, die über den Tellerrand der konventionellen Landschaftsarchitekturpraxis blicken möchten.» BauNetz_Wissen_

“Through a broad, multidisciplinary series of academic essays, the book brings both rigorous science and wide-ranging philosophy to its examination of autonomous robotics in landscape design. […] The book itself is remarkably beautiful, with a design that commits to a series of subtle off-white rectangles printed across each double-page spread, with text and images placed within, between, and across this unique grid structure. The binding uses a drop-spine-style dust jacket for stability, while laying open beautifully on its own during reading. The images shift subtly from photographs to illustrations and back, and like the text serve to unite the conceptual with the practical. The prospect of accelerating climate-based crises is grim enough on its own; that the project approaches its subject with such a heightened aesthetic is testament to the desire to unify art and science in a common goal.” John Peck, Degraded Orbit
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