Maison Fiber installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The project is completely designed by a robot.

Evgeny Ionov

The team of Professors Achim Menges and Jan Knippers presented the installation of Maison Fiber, fully designed by a robot. You can see it on the territory of the Arsenal, where the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale is taking place.

The whole structure consists exclusively of roving, resembling glass fibers, and is built by a robot. Therefore, the work became “the first multi-storey structure of its kind”, which explores an alternative material approach to the design and construction of residential premises of the future.

The fibrous elements of the walls and ceiling have largely made it possible to achieve an unusually light construction — the structure of the upper floor weighs only 9.9 kg/m2. Also, as a result of the construction of the installation, the authors did not need a large consumption of materials. And as they themselves noted, “in the future, such an approach will lead to a significant reduction in waste during the construction process.”

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