WORKSHOPS

May 21-23, Tuesday-Thursday @ UofT and TMU

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM // The eight ROB|ARCH 2024 workshops will run concurrently at our two host institutions. All participants who registered for a workshop should have an email with further workshop details.

CONFERENCE

DAY 0 – May 23, Thursday @ TMU

Registration Location: 288 Church St. Daphne Cockwell H. Sciences Complex (B30) – Design + Technology Lab at The Creative School. Please make sure to register first upon arrival!

12:30-05:00 PM // Conference Registration Opens Location: The Design + Technology Lab – Basement Floor

01:00-04:00 PM // Association for Robots in Architecture Special Session. Location: SID316

05:30-07:00 PM // Welcome Remarks + Retrospective, then Pecha Kucha. Location: SID316

DAY 1 – May 24, Friday @ UofT

Location for Day: 1 Spadina Crescent, Entry from the west or east door only, south entrance will be closed.

08:30 AM // Conference Registration Opens with Coffee and Snacks

09:15 AM // Conference Opening Remarks

09:30 AM // Paper Session 1 – Collaborations

  • Cyber-Physical Explorations of Collective Robotic Construction Using Agent-Based Modelling [Samuel Leder, Lasath Siriwardena, Philipp Kragl and Achim Menges]
  • Planning Non-repetitive Robotic Assembly Processes with Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) [Pok Yin Victor Leung, Yijiang Huang, Caelan Garret, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler]
  • A Loosely Coupled Observation Processing and Data Exchange System for Complex Teams of On-site Construction Robots [Lukas Kirner, Marit Zöcklein, Jyrki Oraskari, Carsten Kamp, Fabian Claßen and Sigrid Brell-Cokcan]
  • Spontaneous Tensegrity: Exploring Improvisational Design and Robotic Fabrication in Tensegrity Structures [Isla Xi Han and Stefana Parascho]

10:50 AM // Coffee Break

11:05 AM // Workshop Outcomes Presentations

12:35 PM // Lunch

01:35 PM // Paper Session 2 – Alternative Materials

  • Additive Manufacture with Graded Bio-polymer Composites [Paul Nicholas, Carl Eppinger, Ruxandra Chiujdea, Konrad Sonne and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen]
  • Cooperative Robotic Fabrication of Natural Tree Fork Structures [Hua Chai, Xinjie Zhou, Xiaofan Gao, Qinhui Yang and Philip F. Yuan]
  • Hollow-Characters, Robotically Programmed Matter for Kinetic Behaviour and Guided Self-Assembly [Samim Mehdizadeh and Oliver Tessmann]
  • Conformal Robotic 3D Printing and Post-fabrication Analysis of Mycelium-based Composites [Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman, Alale Mohseni, Alireza Zamani, Natalie Walter and Benay Gursoy]

02:55 PM // Coffee Break

03:10 PM // Keynote 1 – Brian Ringley

04:20 PM // Paper Session 3 – Other Robot Bodies

  • Synergising Natural Material Complexity and Low Impact Automation [Eszter Olah, Mehrdad Zareian and Moritz Dörstelmann]
  • Differential Boundary Deposition: Mobile Robotic Construction with Amorphous Materials [Matthew Johnson, Phillipp Kragl, Michael Tucker, Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian, Samuel Leder and Achim Menges]
  • A Suspended Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (CDPR) and Reorientation Mechanism for the Semi-Automated Positioning of Prefab Assemblies [Steven Beites, Ethan McDonald and Marc Arsenault]
  • CHANDELIER’1244: Towards Cyber-physical Experimentation with Structural Adaptation in Architecture [Mathias Maierhofer and Achim Menges]

05:40 PM // Coffee Break

05:55 PM // Keynote 2 – Sougwen Chung

07:05 PM // Wrap Up Remarks

DAY 2: May 25, Saturday @ UofT

Location for Day: 1 Spadina Crescent, Entry from the west or east door only, south entrance will be closed.

09:00 AM // Welcome Remarks

09:15 AM // Paper Session 4 – Out of Plane

  • Non-planar 3D Printing of Double Shells [Ioanna Mitropoulou, Amir Vaxman, Olga Diamanti and Benjamin Dillenburger]
  • Polymers, Fabric and Steel: A Hybrid Robotic Fabrication System for Bespoke Doubly-curved Structural Concrete [Jon Krähling Engholt and Dave Pigram]
  • 3D Printing Pattern Effects on SCF-PLA Extrusion on Pre-stretched Textile Formwork [Ehsan Baharlou]
  • Design for Additive Construction: Uncovering Challenges and Opportunities through the Robotic 3D Printing of a Pedestrian Bridge [Peter Storey, Nathan King, James Donnelly and Shadi Al-Ariss]

10:35 AM // Coffee Break

10:50 AM // Keynote 3 – Yusuke Obuchi

12:00 PM // Lunch

01:00 PM // Paper Session 5 – As-built As-found

  • Rising from Rubble: Leveraging Existing Construction Tools for Upcycling Concrete Waste into Slender Walls [Maxence Grangeot, Qianqing Wang, Katrin Beyer, Corentin Fivet and Stefana Parascho]
  • Feasibility Check of a Workflow with Industrial Robots and Laser-Tracking for Timber Machining Across the Workspace [Marc Pantscharowitsch and Benjamin Kromoser]
  • Mixed Reality Carpentry [Gwyllim Jahn, Cameron Newnham and Nick van den Berg]
  • Mobile Robotic Brickwork Disassembly for Material Reuse [Begum Saral, Hanzhi Chen, Stefan Leutenegger and Kathrin Dörfler]
  • Lost and bound: Adaptive Detailing with Robotic Additive Joining for Reclaimed Steel [Inés Ariza, Romana Rust, Vlad-Alexandru Silvestru, Andreas Taras, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Catherine De Wolf]

02:35 PM // Coffee Break

02:50 PM // Paper Session 6 – Models All the Way Down

  • Reshaping Wood Waste: Creative Pathways to Enhance Resource Efficiency [Maria-Eleni Papandreou, Vincent Huyghe, Joseph Namar, Lucas Gottschild, Pit Siebenaler, Bora Çobanoğlu, Alexandre Dubor and Aldo Sollazzo]
  • Artifex Automata: Predicting Robotic Chiseling Strokes [Sandro Siefert, Nadja Gaudillière-Jami, Tom Svilans and Paul Nicholas]
  • Towards Adaptive Additive Manufacturing with Semi-autonomous Robotic Binder Jet 3D Printing of Concrete [Linxiaoyi Wan, Jingyang Liu, Dana Cupkova and Joshua Bard]
  • Toolpath Design Calibration for Robotic Spatial Printing with Supervised Learning [Sulaiman Alothman, Martin Bechthold and Hanspeter Pfister]

04:25 PM // Keynote Panel

05:35 PM // Dinner at Victoria College – Sponsored by RoboticPlus.AI
Location: Burwash Hall, Victoria College, 89 Charles St W

06:00 PM // Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks (during dinner)

09:00 PM // Dinner Ends