Architecture and construction are always quietly at the forefront of technological and material trends. As a result, prestigious technical universities such as ETH Zurich, in particular, have been found to be working on a project using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The automated design and construction they are experimenting with shows how homes and offices might be built perhaps a decade from now.
The project is a giant sculptural flower pot, a "hanging garden" inspired by the legendary architecture of the ancient city of Babylon.
Semelamis (named after the queen of Babylon of the year), which began in 2019, is a collaboration between human and artificial intelligence designers. Of course, the overall idea is the brainchild of its creators, architecture professors Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler. The design was achieved by applying basic requirements such as dimensions, the need for watering and architectural style to a set of computer models and machine learning algorithms.
During the design process, for example, the team might adjust the position of a large "pod" that makes up the 70-foot structure or change the layout of the panels that make up its surface. The software they created would then instantly adjust the overall structure and other panel geometry to accommodate these changes, ensuring it could still safely support its own weight.
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A rendering of the Semilamis Hanging Garden structure
Although there is a lot of automation in the field of architecture, this project pushes the boundaries in terms of the ultimate level of control that seems to give them. After all, the point is to make it a real collaboration and not just an architectural spell check.
"The computer model allowed us to subvert the traditional design process and explore the full scope of the project. This leads to new and often surprising geometry, "Kohler said in an ETHZ news article.
After the final design was drawn up, construction was done by another team of human automation: a set of arms worked in unison to hold multiple heavy objects in place, while humans applied resin to hold them together. This is a step up from what we saw a few years ago with the same team using robots as automated assistants.
Semiramis is being built in the workshop and shipped piece by piece to its final home in Tech Cluster Zug. It should be fully assembled and ready to receive soil and seeds by next spring, so visit the site if you're in the area.
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