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Prc Release » Association for Robots in Architecture - Association for Robots in Architecture - There’s A Reason It Reminds You Of A Lobster. Another cousin of the Pleated Shell Structures (that were featured in this space in a two-part piece in Dec. 2012), the ICD/ITKE RESEARCH PAVILION 2012 is an exercise in form-finding.
It is a collaboration of building science and natural science. Data from biologists studying the structure of lobster shells was used as the basis of design for a robotically fabricated structure. Lobster’s shells, it turns out, are not simply curved sheets of monolithic material, but are composed of unidirectionally-organized fibers in layers. They grow in patterns that correspond to their need for strength under loading.
The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion is a biomimetic structure, made of layers of carbon and glass fiber filament, wound (by a robot) over a temporary steel frame using principles learned from the lobsters.