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RECON-SKYWOOD
ROBOTICALLY RECONFIGURABLE SKYSCRAPER BUILT WITH ENGINEERED WOOD
Recon-SkyWood is a circular skyscraper made of engineered wood and driven by automation. Its innovative reconfigurable structure extends the lifespan of its elements, increasing CO2 storage. Through structural joints, it can be infinitely readapted by robotic arms for reuse in various structures, relying on a modular design and optimized structural data.
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Residential, office and retail
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2023
SDU CREATE - Led by Ass. Prof. Dr. Roberto Naboni
Anja Kunic, Giuseppe Marrone
Davide Angeletti, Roberto Naboni
Honorable Mention in YAC University Award - Young Architects Competitions
RECON-SKYWOOD
ROBOTICALLY RECONFIGURABLE SKYSCRAPER BUILT WITH ENGINEERED WOOD
Recon-SkyWood is a circular and automation-driven skyscraper built with engineered wood. Its structure is based on reconfigurable timber frames that are robotically fabricated, assembled and disassembled with the collaborative work of robots and humans in Mixed Reality (MR).
Cyber-physical circularity
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The idea behind the robotic reconfigurable timber construction system is to extend the life cycle of employed building elements beyond a one-time use and therefore extend the C02 storage within them.
This is enabled by the development of a discrete construction kit with modular connectivity possibilities and dat-driven design which allow for a wide range of formal, structural and spatial configurations from the same set of parts.
The design follows a stress-driven voxel-based computational workflow where the direction, resolution and orientation fof timber frames are informed by the structural data, providing an optimal material layout for a given set of boundary conditions.
Recon-SkyWood can be reconfigured infinitely by robotic arms. To make this possible, the construction elements are tagged with QR codes, through which they obtain a digital twin data which are constantly monitored and updated. This assures that the building blocks can be reused multiple times and ''travel'' from one structure to another while guaranteeing of the tower in time.
The construction system relies on structural joints which are designed to facilitate robotic automated assembly and disassembly, featuring three-dimensional male-female interlocking and reversible steel bolt-nut connections.
Human-robots
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