SCAPING THE

This project is based in a hypothesis which is both from top-down and bottom-up procedures. spontaneous and the planned, and be open to
driven by a simple observation: Our reality is con- The scapes we chose to focus on are fields of events and occurances. An Architecture that can
stantly accelerating. An indication for this would be information that are covering a sufficient part of the act as the interface between the tangible and the

V I R T U A L the rate at which information circulates globally and

specifically through the urban fabric.
Reality augmentation via dynamic Information holds a central role in this situation. The
urban space is not to be studied merely as such
architectural configurations anymore. The fields of information that are born
and developed in the premises of the contempo-
rary city have to be taken into consideration.
We introduce the concept of the Infoscapes,
Authors |Ioannis Chinis, Chrysostomos Nousias which are defined as scapes of information that
Year |2017 cover and amplify the dynamics of urban space.
These scapes: (1) can hold various levels of orga-
nization, (2) they are not tangible, (3) they are
defined by n-dimensional variables, (4) they are
evolving in real time and (5) they are generated
information flow. A vast documentation process
helped us deduce valuable insight for the charac-
teristics and the instant nature of the Infoscapes.
Such as are: (a) the CCTV coverage of public
space and area of influence, (b) the cellphone
antennas network as the underlying foundation of
the information distribution, (c) the flow of informa-
tion through the social media and its implications
for the urban space.
Based on this study we may infer that the existing
means of design, strangle to follow the hyper-dy-
namic nature of our reality. What we need is a
design that can handle the nature of the Infoscape.
Architecture needs to be able to reconcile the
augmented, to be dynamic and responsive in real
time.
The notion of architectural design to the develop-
ment of a system consisting of a series of proce-
dures and protocols. A system designed and built
to manipulate the income and outcome of the
Infoscapes.
Central place in this system holds the notion of the
event. The event can vary, from an exchange of
information, like an upload at a social medium, to a
large gathering of people with various social inter-
actions. The constant communication between
the system and theREAL-TIME
Infoscapes is carried by a net-
work of robotic functional
CHANGE elements
IN that operate at
the locus of the event. These robotic elements
CONFIGURATION

SYSTEM
PROTOCOLS
EVENT MULTI - LAYERED DATA DISTRIBUTION GRAPH COMMUNICATION BOTS REAL-TIME DATA FEEDBACK
RECOGNITION DATA COLLECTION PROCESSING IN SPACE ORGANIZATION PROTOCOL COLLECTION

BOTS AS STRUCTURAL AGENTS

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The days prior the festival,
! AN EVENT IS FOUND! A f # data via the infoscapes
Youth Festival will take
place at Chrimatistiriou infrastructure are collected
Sq. , Thessaloniki [ #dance, #band_1, #booze, #youth ] from all over the area.
[ #live, #shake, #band_1, #friends, #tickets ]
Latitude: 40.636874° [ #booze, #best_moments ]
[ #thessaloniki, #music ]
Longitude: 22.938673° [ #booze, #shake, #band_1, #live, #dance, #artist_2
]
[ #shake, #band_2, #together, #tickets, #live ]
[ #music, #band_3, #city_square ]
.
.
.
[ #books ]

GRIDBOT
The GridBot constitutes the structural agent that
holds responsibility for the assembly of floor ele-
ments and columns consisted by prefabricated
lightweight panels that are assemblied into a tetra-
hedral-based space structure.

03.06.17 | 19:48
Without prior knowledge,
correlations between
elements are mined from
the data. Three major
categories are recognized:
[ writer_1 ] Music
City
[ anim ]
Books
15.06.17 | 07:31 [ book ]

A day before the event, the

TENSEBOT
bot protocols are initialized. The TenseBot is perceived as a hybrid entity that is
Various bot Swarms step in to both a robotic configuration and a structural
build structures in the areas element. Its ability to variate its components
proposed by the system.
enables it to engage in a cooperative act with other
17.06.17 | 07:31 units in order to create dome-like and freeform-like
The Real-Time data are used roofing structures.
for the extraction of new [ comics ]
distributions and new
structures in space.
[ Chrimatistiriou sq ]

f f

f # #

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# # #
During the festival,
#
Real-Time data are collected GECKOBOT
via the infrastructure of the
infoscapes
The GridBot constitutes the structural agent that
f
holds responsibility for the assembly of floor ele-
# ments and columns consisted by prefabricated
lightweight panels that are assemblied into a tetra-
hedral-based space structure.

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! The Real-Time collected Data,
are used as stimuli for the
robotic structures and ARMBOT
circulated back to the system. ArmBot is a generic multifuctional six axis articulated robot
that is a complementary part of the infoscape robot
swarm. Its main purpose is to handle the part of the
fabrication process that concerns to material
conglomeration. It is equipped with three custom end
effectors that correspond to different functions: [a] milling
and drilling, [b] gripping, [ c] contour crafting.