A team from Princeton University and the IE School of Architecture and Design will build a domed pavilion using artificial intelligence, holograms, and augmented reality on the IE University campus in Segovia, Spain. On May 4, writes the Archinect online magazine.
The team, made up of IE architects, engineers, craftsmen and students, is led by Syrian-Spanish architect and IE professor of architecture Wesam Al Asali, together with Sigrid Adrianssens, director of the Shape Search Lab at Princeton University.
The outdoor vaulted pavilion will be built on a 10-foot (3 m) high tripod without formwork and will measure 16 feet (about 5 m) long and 10 feet wide. For the construction of the pavilion, the initial layer of industrial hollow brick will be placed, covered with tiles. The laying process will use augmented reality glasses and the Microsoft HoloLens app, allowing builders to follow holographic markers to pinpoint the exact location of the bricks.
“AR technology allows the craftsman to work faster, more efficiently and accurately, and with the help of computer analysis, construction patterns can be generated for future projects and take traditional craftsman skills to new levels.”explained Professor Al Asali.
According to him, this method “It saves a lot of materials to make the mold, the rails and the formwork of the vault, and it helps us to better understand how the building behaves during construction.”
The bricks used in the project were manufactured and supplied through local supply chains. The team sees the combination of local materials and technologies designed to minimize waste as a response to the New European Bauhaus Initiative and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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