‘Intensity’ by Tom Shaked will focus on how increased sensing capacities enable to introduce sensitivity into digital fabrication, offering a chance to augment the sensibility of the human hand to numerous architectural scales.
Tom Shaked is a PhD candidate at the MTRL. His research focuses on robotic fabrication in architecture and on reinstating traditional crafts (mainly in stone and ground-found matter) using advanced robotic sensing.
‘Extensity’ by Karen Lee Bar-Sinai will discuss the application of robotic tools to vast scales of architectural groundscapes, offering an opportunity to reconstitute native matter through digital fabrication.
Karen Lee Bar-Sinai is a PhD candidate at the MTRL. Her research focuses on robotically controlled digital fabrication of groundscapes and explores the use of local soil as the primary material for the construction of architectural surfaces.
‘Potentiality’ by Prof. Aaron Sprecher will discuss the implications and theoretical aspects of scale-free robotic fabrication enabled by the coupling of information, sensibility and the extra-large scale.
Aaron Sprecher is Associate Professor at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning and heads the Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL). In parallel, he is co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture, a collaborative research group that brings together international researchers in the fields of design, engineering, media research, history, and theory. His research and design work focuses on the synergy between information technologies, computational languages, and digital fabrication systems, examining the way in which technology informs and generates innovative approaches to design processes.
The talk will be held in English. Registration is not required.
The TUM event is funded by the DFG - German Research Foundation as part of a Research Proposal Grant for the collaboration between the Professorship of Urban Design at TUM, Germany, and MTRL - Material Topology Research Labs in TECHNION, Israel.