Autonomous Assembly : Designing for a New Era of Collective Construction.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Guest-Editor -- Introduction: From Automated to Autonomous Assembly -- ROBOTICS AND CONSTRUCTION -- SELF-ASSEMBLY -- AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION -- AUTONOMOUS VERSUS AUTOMATED -- THE NEXT PHASE -- Notes -- Combinatorial Commons: Social Remixing in a Sharing Economy -- Notes -- How Specific Interactions Drive the Complex Organisation of Building Blocks -- Building Blocks with Specific Interactions -- Self-Assembly of Desired Structures -- Self-Sustained Self-Replication Reactions -- Notes -- From Self-Assembly to Evolutionary Structures -- INGREDIENTS FOR SELF-ASSEMBLY -- EXPLORATIONS IN SELF-ASSEMBLY -- A FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURES -- Notes -- The Vanishing Actor: How to Let Things Happen: The Art of Order Without Orders -- Removing the 'Self' from Organisation -- The Order of the Fireflies -- Synchronicity -- Notes -- Complex Design by Simple Robots: A Collective Embodied Intelligence Approach to Construction -- COLLECTIVE EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE AND DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGIES -- CHALLENGES IN REAL-WORLD CONSTRUCTION -- Notes -- Crowd-Driven Pattern Formation: Computational Strategies for Large-Scale Design and Assembly -- An Assembly Problem -- This is Not a Ball -- Beyond Vision -- Hive -- What is Next? -- Notes -- The Immersive: Stagecraft to Urbanism -- Cybernetic Theatre -- Modular Communities -- Indeterminate Environments -- Notes -- Baskets and Architecture: Ritualisitic Making and Collective Design -- Building Relationships -- Ritual -- Coiling -- Design and Improvisation -- Notes -- Aleatory Construction Based on Jamming: Stability Through Self-Confinement -- Jamming as a Route to Rigidity -- Aleatory Architectures -- Project Z-Form -- Reconfigurability and Recyclability -- Notes -- Granular Jamming of Loadbearing and Reversible Structures: Rock Print and Rock Wall.

Rock Print -- Rock Wall -- Continuing Explorations of Granular Jamming -- Notes -- Granular Construction: Designed Particles for Macro-Scale Architectural Structures -- Macro-Scale Granular Systems -- Autonomous Granular Construction -- Outlook: Robotic Granular Matter -- Notes -- Distributed Structures: Digital Tools for Collective Design -- STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION AND ITS LIMITS -- DIGITAL BRAINSTORMING -- BALANCE, COMPROMISE, CONSTRAINTS -- DATA-DRIVEN FRONTIERS -- MATERIALISING STRUCTURALLY DRIVEN COMPLEXITY -- NOTES -- Compressive Assemblies: Bottom-Up Performance for a New Form of Construction -- Reducing Falsework -- Controlling Force Flow -- Embracing New Fabrication Technologies -- Further Potential -- Notes -- Disarmed Strategies: New Machines and Techniques for an Era of Computational Contextualism in Architecture -- On Neutral Grounds of Architecture -- The Spectacle: From Projectile to Project -- Compression as Expression -- From Autonomous Construction to Autonomous Design -- Flying Through Space, Building In Space -- Computational Contextualism -- Notes -- 2060: An Autonomously Crafted Built Environment -- Sensitive Relationships -- Portable Preferences -- Customised Solutions -- Site Feedback -- Adaptive Construction -- Historical Futurescape -- Rapid Formation -- Thoughtful Creation -- Notes -- Counterpoint: Autonomous Assembly as the Fourth Approach to Generic Construction -- Localisation and the Element-Assemblage Mindset -- Time and the Layer-Stratification Mindset -- Scalability and the Module-Composition Mindset -- Generic Construction and the Autonomous Assembly Approach -- Challenges of the Fourth Approach -- Notes -- Contributors -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: AUTONOMOUS ASSEMBLY -- What is Architectural Design? -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORTHCOMING AD TITLES -- EULA.

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