Visions of Process—Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics in Architectural Design and Construction
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Robotic Building. ed. / Henriette Bier. Springer, 2018. p. 1-23 (Adaptive Environments; Vol. 1, No. 1).
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T1 - Visions of Process—Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics in Architectural Design and Construction
AU - Vehlken, Sebastian
PY - 2018/8/30
Y1 - 2018/8/30
N2 - This chapter discusses and reviews the application of swarm intelligence (SI) and swarm robotics (SR) to architecture and construction from a history of science and technology perspective. In a first step, it explores the conceptual entanglements of swarm intelligence and adaptive environments and situates them in the context of a recent theoretical discourse about “media ecologies”. The second part provides a critical overview of seminal SI approaches for architectural design. These scrutinize novel connections between architecture as a site of material composition and as a site of spatial practices by computer experiments in software environments. Its guiding hypothesis is that SI technologies here are primarily used to create diversity. Subsequently, the third part of the chapter examines in which ways recent advances in collective robotics lead to further materializations of the adaptive capabilities of swarming that go beyond software applications. It presents three state-of-the-art examples of SR for architectural construction and demonstrates that SR in architectural construction—in contrast to the paradigm of diversity discussed in the context of architectural design—work best in context with a high degree of standardization and pre-defined modularization, or, on the basis of regularity.
AB - This chapter discusses and reviews the application of swarm intelligence (SI) and swarm robotics (SR) to architecture and construction from a history of science and technology perspective. In a first step, it explores the conceptual entanglements of swarm intelligence and adaptive environments and situates them in the context of a recent theoretical discourse about “media ecologies”. The second part provides a critical overview of seminal SI approaches for architectural design. These scrutinize novel connections between architecture as a site of material composition and as a site of spatial practices by computer experiments in software environments. Its guiding hypothesis is that SI technologies here are primarily used to create diversity. Subsequently, the third part of the chapter examines in which ways recent advances in collective robotics lead to further materializations of the adaptive capabilities of swarming that go beyond software applications. It presents three state-of-the-art examples of SR for architectural construction and demonstrates that SR in architectural construction—in contrast to the paradigm of diversity discussed in the context of architectural design—work best in context with a high degree of standardization and pre-defined modularization, or, on the basis of regularity.
KW - Media and communication studies
KW - Swarm intelligence
KW - Swarm robotics
KW - Multi-agent design
KW - Adaptive building
KW - Distributed construction
KW - Media ecology
KW - Environmentality
UR - https://www.springerprofessional.de/robotic-building/16064966
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70866-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70866-9_1
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-319-70865-2
T3 - Adaptive Environments
SP - 1
EP - 23
BT - Robotic Building
A2 - Bier, Henriette
PB - Springer
ER -