Fabricating The Real

A autonomous robot that makes drawings in the sand only visible from the sky, mimicking the ancient Nazca lines.

Fabricating the unreal sleep well

Flight Assembled Architecture/Architectures volantes from FRAC Centre on Vimeo.

photos by tom svilans

"Ferropolis, "the city of iron" is an open museum of old huge industrial machines in Gräfenhainichen, a city near Dessau, Germany. It's an open air museum which contains machines from the mid-twentieth century. They can measure to 30 meters high, 120 meters long and weigh up to 1980 tons. Moreover, the area is used for several events like opera or music festival like the Melt! festival or the "Ferropolis in Flammen"." - Wikipedia

Another video of the flying fabrication system developed by Gramazio and Kohler and Raffaello D'Andrea at ETH, with a further information available from the ETH website.

Some more interesting stuff coming out of Raffaello D'Andrea ETH research group

So here is the first actual preview of Gramazio and Kohler's lastest project currently on exhibit at FRAC Orleans. A series of flying robots that pick up and place polystyrene bricks to form a tower.