Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea
Imagine if our cities were built by fleets of flying robots. A group of robot helicopters were programmed to lift and stack 1500 polystyrene bricks into a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France.
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The experiment was conducted by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea.
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Gramazio & Kohler have previously created a robot called ROB that builds undulating brick walls and were the team behind the award-winning Structural Oscillations installation at the 2008 architectural biennial in Venice.
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The architects think the robots could be a model for future forms of building construction.
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The assembled installation in on show until 19 February 2012.
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Read more about this project in our earlier story.
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Click here to see another robot designed by Gramazio & Kohler, or view all our stories about robots here.
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Photography is by François Lauginie.
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Gramazio & Kohler's work is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12.
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