Made by robots: challenging architecture at a larger scale

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5 EDITORIAL Helen Castle 6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler 8 SPOTLIGHT Visual highlights of the issue 14 INTRODUCTION Authoring Robotic Processes Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Jan Willmann 22 Integrating Robotic Fabrication in the Design Process Michael Budig, Jason Lim and Raffael Petrovic 44 Mesh-Mould: Robotically Fabricated Spatial Meshes as Reinforced Concrete Formwork Norman Hack and Willi Viktor Lauer 54 Robots and Architecture: Experiments, Fiction, Epistemology Antoine Picon 60 Entrepreneurship in Architectural Robotics: The Simultaneity of Craft, Economics and Design Jelle Feringa 66 Odico Formwork Robotics Asbjorn Sondergaard 68 RoboFold and Robots.IO Gregory Epps 70 Machineous Andreas Froech 72 ROB Technologies Tobias Bonwetsch and Ralph Bartschi 74 GREYSHED Ryan Luke Johns 76 Computation or Revolution Philippe Morel 88 Changing Building Sites: Industrialisation and Automation of the Building Process Thomas Bock and Silke Langenberg 100 In-Situ Fabrication: Mobile Robotic Units on Construction Sites Volker Helm 108 Towards Robotic Swarm Printing Neri Oxman, Jorge Duro-Royo, Steven Keating, Ben Peters, Elizabeth Tsai 116 Machines for Rent: Experiments by New-Territories Francois Roche and Camille Lacadee 126 COUNTERPOINT Crisis! What Crisis? Retooling for Mass Markets in the 21st Century Tom Verebes 134 CONTRIBUTORS