11:00 rC3 (re)2boT

Students: Yu Chia lin, Yen Chen liu,Janhavi Khairnar, nelisha Mehta, Pichapa

Wipawiwat

Design: Tyson Hosmer, Octavian Gheorghiu, Philipp Siedler

Technical: Ziming He, Baris Erdincer, Panagiotis Tigas

Theory: Jordi Vivaldi Piera

(re)2 BOT is developed as a modular construction system for disaster and refugee relief scenarios that can be assembled, disassembled, and reconfigured by an ecology of large-scale robots. Rather than focusing on temporary short term solutions, the project seeks to provide long term solutions that can be evolved over time from quickly deployable camp settlements into permanent and adaptive communities over a series of stages. (re)2 BOT is developed with lightweight reversible monocoque parts prefabricated with sustainable materials in onsite micro-factories and co-designed with large scale collaborative assembly robots. The project leverages constraint solving computational algorithms and reinforcement learning to generate, construct, expand and reconfigure multifunctional spatial compositions according to the needs of the local refugee community for the present and future.