Way too amazing.
Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap
New Robot-Fabricated Building Material Is 100 Times Lighter Than Brick | Co.Design | business + design
‘ … The filament they developed is a mix of glass fiber and carbon fiber. The material is woven together by two Kuka robots into hexagonal cells that make up the structure. “The real novelty of this project that’s never been tested on this scale before is that we don’t use a mold to create the fibers,” Menges says. Rather, “we used the materiality of the fiber to inform the structural components.” … ‘
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