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Robotic Fabrication of
Acoustic Brick Walls
Vomhof,
Max1, Lauren Vasey1,
Stefan Bräuer2,
Kurt Eggenschwiler3,
Jurgen Strauss4,
Fabio
Gramazio1
and Matthias Kohler1
1
Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
2
REHAU AG & Co, Germany
3
Empa, Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise Control, Duebendorf, Switzerland
4
Strauss Electroacoustics, Bern,
Switzerland
ACADIA
14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the
Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN
9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 555-564
This collaborative research project demonstrates the viability of using
robotic fabrication and industrial polymer technologies in the
fabrication of highly versatile and individually designed acoustically
performative walls. Driven by the formal parameters which significantly
impact the acoustics of a space through diffusion, in particular
differentiated and aperiodic surface depth, a customizable system and
fabrication process was developed in which an injection moulded element
and a secondary insert are placed uniquely by robot and then joined
through a process of ultra-sonic welding.