Pike Loop
September 30th, 2009Tomorrow starts the construction of the architectural installion “Pike Loop” at the Storefront of Art and Architecture (New York), together with the opening of the exhibition of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler on Architecture and Digital Fabrication. Gramazio & Kohler shipped R-O-B, their Mobile Fabrication Unit robot, to New York to build Pike Loop, a 22m long structure built from bricks.
I would really like to see these kind of fabrication techniques to be used more often, they definitely offer new possibilities to architecture and design.
This is a photo of another design called “Structural Oscillations”, it should give you an idea how Pike Loop could look like when it’s finished.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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October 1st, 2009 at 4:08 am
This is really awesome. There is a similar retaining wall at the National Botanical Gardens in Washington, DC. Jungle room, I believe.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:13 am
The symmetry, flow and exactness is incredibly soothing. It really allows the form to take on such a visual softness and the hardness of the bricks almost goes unrecognized as a result.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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April 8th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
[...] Tomorrow starts the construction of the architectural installion “Pike Loop” at the Storefront of Art and Architecture(New York), together with the opening of the exhibition of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler on Architecture and Digital Fabrication. Gramazio & Kohler shipped R-O-B, their Mobile Fabrication Unit robot, to New York to build Pike Loop, a 22m long structure built from bricks.I would really like to see these kind of fabrication techniques to be used more often, they definitely offer new possibilities to architecture and design. http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/09/30/pike-loop/ [...]