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- Elytra Filament PavilionAn exciting fusion between robotics and architecture is on the rise, and the potential of digital fabrication is wonderfully expressed in the stunning Elytra Filament Pavilion. Designed by a team at the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/university-of-stuttgart" target="_blank">University of Stuttgart</a>, the robotically woven structure is now on view at Germany’s <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/vitra-design-museum" target="_blank">Vitra Design Museum</a> after its <a href="http://inhabitat.com/robots-weave-an-insect-inspired-carbon-fiber-forest-in-london/" target="_blank">premiere at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London</a>. The experimental pavilion is an artistic exploration between architecture, engineering, and biomimicry principles, weaving carbon fiber into fibrous structures inspired by beetles.1
- Elytra Filament PavilionA computer algorithm determined the pavilion’s design, which was then produced with the help of a robot.2
- Elytra Filament PavilionAn exciting fusion between robotics and architecture is on the rise, and the potential of digital fabrication is wonderfully expressed in the stunning Elytra Filament Pavilion. Designed by a team at the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/university-of-stuttgart" target="_blank">University of Stuttgart</a>, the robotically woven structure is now on view at Germany’s <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/vitra-design-museum" target="_blank">Vitra Design Museum</a> after its <a href="http://inhabitat.com/robots-weave-an-insect-inspired-carbon-fiber-forest-in-london/" target="_blank">premiere at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London</a>. The experimental pavilion is an artistic exploration between architecture, engineering, and biomimicry principles, weaving carbon fiber into fibrous structures inspired by beetles.3
- Elytra Filament PavilionTaking cues from the forewing shells of flying beetles known as elytra, the computer-programmed Kuka robot spun resin-soaked glass and carbon fibers into hexagonal scaffolds and densely wound fibers into the canopy.4
- Elytra Filament PavilionInstalled as part of the Vitra’s “Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine” exhibition, the 200-square-meter Elytra Filament Pavilion shows off the power of robotics in architecture.5
- Elytra Filament PavilionThe entire pavilion weighs 2.5 tonnes and is “exceptionally lightweight,” weighing less than 9 kilograms per square meter.6
- Elytra Filament PavilionThe University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) developed a unique robotic fabrication technique to create the pavilion’s 40 modular hexagonal units, each of which weigh 45 kilograms and take about three hours to make.7
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