With a limited understanding of the potential of the robot, I question how it may open potential within architectural design, how does the robot move beyond the capacity of replicating and replacing human labor, what are the capacities of it as a design tool? I am little interested in terms of optimization or economic efficiency or mere repetition of standard processes, rather is there potential for the robot to be ‘greater’ than the human hand in a differing capacity? To work in extreme conditions? To reach new heights, etc? The article seems to suggest that specification in construction operations and materials can lead to a new craft culture combining digital and physical, blurring boundaries between structural order and ornamentation, but what is the potential for craft when a process of creation becomes a wholly automated output of digital description? A one-to-one process. The potentials are interesting and obviously require a more in-depth knowledge of the robot operation, and perhaps a sort of ‘hacking,’ part of the reason I’m in this class.
-Missy
-Missy
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