139 research outputs found
Robotic building: architecture in the age of automation Edition Detail./ Mollie Claypool, Manuel Jimenez Garcia, Gilles Retsin, Vicente Soler.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references.The use of robots in architecture is already commonplace: robots automate processes that were previously done manually. Complex shapes are created with the help of 3D printing while autonomous swarms of robots construct complex buildings. How does the use of robots affect the resulting structures; how does it affect the thinking of architects who work with robots? Robotic Building answers these questions with several practical examples. A final chapter explores the idea of architect as robot, the fully-automated home and similar concepts in which the robot merges with its environment and becomes part of our experience.Carpo, Mario -- Claypool, Mollie / Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Claypool, Mollie / Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Yuan, Philip -- Design, Matter / Clifford, Brandon / McGee, Wes / Stone, Quarra -- Menges, Achim / Dörstelmann, Moritz / Knippers, Jan / Auer, Thomas -- Claypool, Mollie / Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Hansmeyer, Michael / Dillenburger, Benjamin -- Morel, Philippe -- Claypool, Mollie / Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Tan, Zoey / Tanskanen, Claudia / Li, Qianyi / Yin, Xiaolin -- Claypool, Mollie / Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Tedbury, Ivo -- Yablonina, Maria / Menges, Achim -- Melenbrink, Nathan / Werfel, Justin -- Claypool, Mollie / Jimenez Garcia, Manuel / Retsin, Gilles / Soler, Vicente -- Rehm, M. Casey -- Lynn, Greg -- Sanchez, Jose -- Morel, Philippe -- Picon, Antoine -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. The Age Of Computational Brutalism / Introduction. Architecture In The Age Of Automation / Chapter 1. Craft -- Craft / Chi-She, 2016 / Cyclopean Cannibalism, 2017 / Elytra Filament Pavilion, 2016 / Chapter 2: Print -- Print / Digital Grotesque II, 2017 / Space-Truss Prototype, 2012 / Thallus, 2017 -- Chapter 3: Assemble -- Assemble / Voxel Chair 1.0, 2017 / Rock Printing, 2015 -- 2018 -- Int: Robotic Building Blocks, 2017 / Chapter 4: Many -- Many / Semblr, 2017 / Multi-Species Robotic Fabrication For Filament Structures: Towards A Robotic Ecosystem, 2015 / A Swarm Robot Ecosystem For Autonomous Construction, 2017 / Chapter 5: Diffuse -- Diffuse / Hoaxurbanism, 2017 / RV Prototype House, 2012 / Common'Hood, 2019 / Positions -- Towards An Artificial Architecture: About Superintelligent Space / Digital Fabrication, Materiality And Nostalgia / Appendix -- Authors -- Contributors -- Credits -- Imprint -- Acknowledgements1 online resource
Our Automated Future: A Discrete Framework for the Production of Housing
No full textWhat are the social, economic and political consequences of a shift towards full automation for the production of architecture – and, speci‐ fically, housing? It is a question that an experimental studio within the Design Computation Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London has been exploring for several years. The lab's co‐director Mollie Claypool discusses the philosophical, theoretical and design background against which their investigations have been carried out, and presents some of the housing fabrication projects that they have produced
The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and In the Future
No full textAuthored by architecture theorist Mollie Claypool, it’s your one-stop-shop for the history of digital thinking in architecture. From debates around parametric design to the emergence of collaboration, the report condenses the interplay between digital innovation and architecture into one, tangible piece to reference
Seamless
No full textDesign Team: Mollie Claypool, Manuel Jiménez García, Vicente Soler, Christina Dahdaleh, The Bartlett U19. This proposal is for a full-scale, deployable architectural pavilion that functions as a temporary pop-up shop/event space. The pavilion aims to further develop a technique using casting of flexible materials and 3D printing/additive manufacturing utilising robotics to create a seamless, flexible inflatable lattice structure. This technique addresses the problem of the seam in working with pneumatic structures as the seam is almost always the point of failure of an inflatable structure. It has been developed within the Bartlett’s MArch Unit 19 in the last year and is the first of its kind. It has, however, only been developed until now at a small scale of 1:50. This aims to develop it further at different scales of design resolution, from structural considerations to the use of digital fabrication, including robotics and 3D printing/additive manufacturing. This project is an initiative by Mollie Claypool, Manuel Jimenez Garcia and Vicente Soler together with the Bartlett’s MArch Unit 19 and It will be launched in September 2015 at the Bartlett School of Architecture
Mollie Stevens Smart (1916-2012).
No full textPresents an obituary for Mollie Stevens Smart (1916-2012). Mollie attended the University of Toronto, from which she graduated with honors in psychology at age 20 in 1936. She studied and worked at the Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit, earning a master\u27s degree in child development from the University of Michigan in 1941. She earned her doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Delhi in 1969. An author, teacher, and mentor, Mollie won Fulbright research grants to India and New Zealand and lectured in the United States, India, New Zealand, Canada, and China. She wrote 26 books, most co-authored with her husband, Russell (Rus) C. Smart. Beginning in the 1940s, when Freudian theory had a strong grip on the popular view of child development, the books placed the developing child in the context of family and community systems. The Smarts\u27 best-selling college textbook Children: Development and Relationships (1967, 1973, 1977, 1982) was based on the theories of Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget. Mollie was a member of the American Psychological Association throughout her professional career and held memberships also in the Society for Research in Child Development, the National Council on Family Relations, the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, and the Fulbright Association. After moving to Ridgefield, Washington, in 2003 with her daughter Ellen following Rus\u27s death in 1996, she applied her great knowledge to advise a community-based organization that serves the needs of new babies born into destitute families. Mollie died at home in Ridgefield on October 22, 2012, at age 96. © 2013 APA, all rights reserved
A Conversation on Labour & Practice
No full textAutomated approaches to design, fabrication, and construction present disruptive and potentially transformative challenges to the conventional practice of architecture, as computational workflows recalibrate traditional roles and responsibilities in the production of buildings. How does computational design change how labor is defined and enacted in architectural and construction practice? What are the ethical implications and questions that arise in this context, particularly as we consider the implications of uncompensated or under-compensated labor of those doing computational work? This keynote event brings together three architects and thinkers to critically explore the intersections between computation, labor, and practice. Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture, principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio, and a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. Billie Faircloth is a Partner at KieranTimberlake, where she leads a transdisciplinary group leveraging research, design, and problem-solving processes across fields including environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, and architecture. Mollie Claypool is an architecture theorist and activist at AUAR and UCL Bartlett. Her work broadly focuses on issues of social justice highlighted by increasing automation in architecture and design production, such as the future of work, housing, platforms, localised manufacturing, and circular economies
The Fifth Sparrow: In Memory of Mollie Skinner
No full textThis thesis offers a case study in adapting Australian literary biography to the theatre, specifically in the form of a one woman show or monologue performance. The thesis consists of a novel play script, together with exegetical writing which outlines the source materials used and the process and themes under consideration. These themes include those of family (specifically a difficult relationship with her mother), love (including a lesbian affair), life as an aspiring writer, and the protagonist’s difficult to shake sense of damage, pain and struggle. The play offers a portrait of West Australian writer Mollie Skinner (1876- 1955). Sources included her autobiography (both the original manuscript and that edited and published by Mary Durack), Mollie’s novels and her letters—particularly her extensive correspondence with the British author D.H. Lawrence, who she met in WA—and secondary writings. Skinner’s writing has been described as akin to an “untended garden,” rich in imagery, but scattered and often difficult to follow. In recognition of this, my play takes the form of a series of vignettes and images, a succession of heightened moments, choreographed with sound and movement elements for dramatic impact. Mollie’s life thereby emerges as one marked by pain and suffering, yet suffused with rich language and visions. Although Mollie was more than just a friend of D.H. Lawrence, it is nevertheless clear that the better known author offered her support and encouragement that few others did. Together with her Sybil these two figures emerge as Mollie’s only true loves and companions, figures physically separated from her, yet who enabled her life and many of her joys. Skinner emerges then as a modest but indomitable spirt, poised on the veranda, looking at the world through her failing eyesight; touched by the beauty of it all.
The aim of the play is thus to do justice to the spirit of Skinner, without presenting an exhaustive account of her entire life, and in doing so, to present her story to a new generation of West Australians
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