While current approaches in timber construction stress the advantages of off-site prefabrication, glued laminated timber(glulam) structures is limited to the constraints of standardized, prefabricated mostly linear elements, which also lends itself only to building typologies that offer an increased level of standardization and regularity. The design freedom of timber structures is incomparable to that of reinforced concrete structures, which mostly gains from the in-situ fabrication process. An in-situ robotic timber fabrication platform allows the on-site construction of glulam structures with highly differentiated networks of beams composed of robotically assembled discrete linear elements. Based on the possibilities of such mobile robotic fabrication process, this paper explores novel architectural typologies of spatial glulam structures. The research is conducted from several aspects including joint tectonics, design method, and robotic fabrication process. A large-scale pavilion is designed and fabricated to verify the feasibility of the proposed system. This research could provide a novel mode of in-situ robotic timber fabrication and corresponding glulam structure system for timber construction.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Chai2022
%A Chai, Hua
%A Guo, Zhixian
%A Wagner, Hans Jakob
%A Stark, Tim
%A Menges, Achim
%A Yuan, Philip F
%B Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022
%D 2022
%K myown peer robotic timber wood
%P 41--50
%R 10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.041
%T In-Situ Robotic Fabrication of Spatial Glulam Structures
%U http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/caadria2022_245
%V 2
%X While current approaches in timber construction stress the advantages of off-site prefabrication, glued laminated timber(glulam) structures is limited to the constraints of standardized, prefabricated mostly linear elements, which also lends itself only to building typologies that offer an increased level of standardization and regularity. The design freedom of timber structures is incomparable to that of reinforced concrete structures, which mostly gains from the in-situ fabrication process. An in-situ robotic timber fabrication platform allows the on-site construction of glulam structures with highly differentiated networks of beams composed of robotically assembled discrete linear elements. Based on the possibilities of such mobile robotic fabrication process, this paper explores novel architectural typologies of spatial glulam structures. The research is conducted from several aspects including joint tectonics, design method, and robotic fabrication process. A large-scale pavilion is designed and fabricated to verify the feasibility of the proposed system. This research could provide a novel mode of in-situ robotic timber fabrication and corresponding glulam structure system for timber construction.
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abstract = {While current approaches in timber construction stress the advantages of off-site prefabrication, glued laminated timber(glulam) structures is limited to the constraints of standardized, prefabricated mostly linear elements, which also lends itself only to building typologies that offer an increased level of standardization and regularity. The design freedom of timber structures is incomparable to that of reinforced concrete structures, which mostly gains from the in-situ fabrication process. An in-situ robotic timber fabrication platform allows the on-site construction of glulam structures with highly differentiated networks of beams composed of robotically assembled discrete linear elements. Based on the possibilities of such mobile robotic fabrication process, this paper explores novel architectural typologies of spatial glulam structures. The research is conducted from several aspects including joint tectonics, design method, and robotic fabrication process. A large-scale pavilion is designed and fabricated to verify the feasibility of the proposed system. This research could provide a novel mode of in-situ robotic timber fabrication and corresponding glulam structure system for timber construction.},
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author = {Chai, Hua and Guo, Zhixian and Wagner, Hans Jakob and Stark, Tim and Menges, Achim and Yuan, Philip F},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/206c1377332f885c45b05eab79c163df0/hansjakobwagner},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022},
doi = {10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.041},
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pages = {41--50},
timestamp = {2023-01-20T18:24:22.000+0100},
title = {{In-Situ Robotic Fabrication of Spatial Glulam Structures}},
url = {http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/caadria2022_245},
volume = 2,
year = 2022
}
