This is a blog for my interest in "Robotics in Architecture," which began in 2006-2007 in Greg Lynn's UCLA Architecture and Urban Design M.Arch research studio on "Giant Robots and Lazy River."
Monday, January 30, 2017
Shape Shifting Meeting Space
Self-Assembly Lab at MIT has created a Transformable Meeting Space with Google. The woven structure made of wood and fiberglass, it folds and lifts half way when a rod is pulled and expands when it is relaxed.
For more pictures(above picture is also from following link) and information, check out:
http://www.archdaily.com/796317/mit-and-google-team-up-to-create-transformable-office-pods
Labels:
analogue,
architecture,
counter weight,
curve,
fiberglass,
flexible,
fold,
furniture,
google,
lift,
mit,
Self assembly lab,
shape shift,
skylar tibbits,
transform,
wall,
wood,
woven
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