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Flight Assembled
Architecture es la
primera instalación de
arquitectura construida
exclusivamente con
drones. Estos siguen
algoritmos matemáticos
para milimétricamente
colocar las 1.500 piezas.
Flight Assembled
Architecture is the first
architectural installation
built exclusively
with drones. These
follow mathematical
algorithms to
millimetrically place
the 1,500 pieces.
material forms of architecture cannot be simply invented, but here
appears the relation between design, construction and the process
of materialization. Semper particularly drew on the Greek temple.
According to Semper, the elements of the stone temple recall con-
struction features of the wooden temple. Thus, in the transition
from one material to another the ancient stone temple represents its
structural history and the prevailing cultural influences. This par-
ticularly becomes evident when Semper tried to show something that
was rather impossible to theorize: the transition from immateriality
to materiality, from fluid correlations to differentiated structures.
Today too, through computational design and digital fabrication,
Semper’s materialist agenda becomes reconceptualized under the
term Gestalt, in the sense of ‘information’ on the matter.
Indeed, today we deal with a variety of manifestations of a funda-
mental change in the digital age of architecture. However, one point
is certain: architectural design in the age of digital fabrication is no
longer restricted to superficial appearance and perceptive modes.
In fact, through new developments such as robotic fabrication,
architecture has begun to detach itself from paper and the virtual
space. Today, digital architectural design strives for materials and
structures. This is clearly evident in the research of Gramazio &
