Have a look at this penthouse located inside a concert hall as its architecture suddenly blossomed because of robots. The future of architecture may well be in our fingertips.
Architectural Digest, a site fond of featuring the breakthroughs in architecture and design, showed a recent architectural feature: a penthouse made by robots. The penthouse is inside a concert hall best known due to its positive reviews in architecture.
The Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie became the talk of the town because of its amazing architecture and now it is back because of its penthouse made by robots. Is there no stopping this creative and innovative company? Herzog & de Meuron, an architecture and design company, started working on the concert hall since 2003 locating it atop a brick and historical warehouse (made by Werner Kallmorgen).
As for the penthouse made by robots, a collaboration between Brückner Architekten, an architecture company, and Schotten & Hansen, a firm that specializes in wood construction. To be able to locate the penthouse inside the Elbphilharmonie was no easy feat, especially with something as ambitious as this. The penthouse contains around 1,000 components.
The robots that made the penthouse to the amazing architecture that it is now are milling machines, high-class robotic devices, machines that are mostly for car design are now the major makers of this penthouse. Playing around with technology, even the design of the penthouse came from computerized models that helped the architects visualize how this amazing architecture should be.
The advantages in building the penthouse with the use of robots were that there are minimal to no mistakes in the creation, and there are no contaminations. The contaminations the architects are talking about are sawing and drilling. There are just smooth and clean edges and because of the highly advanced database, they fit each other perfectly with no need of adjustments.
All the materials used in building the penthouse made by robots are prefabricated elements. This means that all of those things are made prior of installation and all the machines just need to do was to attach one to the other like a jigsaw puzzle. Another advantage is the time used for creating the penthouse, since all materials are through programming, it becomes easier and fault-free. Are we now entering a new world of construction? Or is traditional still better?
