Jan Willmann

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ·  Faculty of Art and Design

This paper outlines an important step in characterizing a novel field of robotic construction research where a cable-driven parallel robot is used to extrude cementitious material in three-dimensional space, and thus offering a comprehensive new approach to computational design and construction, and to robotic fabrication at larger scales. Develope...

Die subjektive Erfahrung von Patient*innen gewinnt als Kriterium in den letzten Jahrzenten verstärkt an Bedeutung. Unter dem Anspruch einer patient*innenzentrierten Medizin wird die Fokussierung auf individuelle Patient*innebedarfe postuliert, statt spezifische fachliche Routinen auszuagieren und mechanistisch-empiristischen Paradigmen zu folgen. F...

In clinical contexts, pain is normally assessed by self-report using numeric rating scales and questionnaires. This practice reduces the possibility of expressing individual pain experience to a few numeric options. Developed by the research groups of Mühlenberend and Willmann at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Team of the Clinic for Interdiscip...

This paper presents results from the on-going research in industrial AI, namely a use case from Business-to-Business (B2B) factory automation, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to predict specific time series for factory planning. This research wants to shed light on the progress in industrial AI applications and, most importantly...

This paper discusses a novel approach for artificial coral reefs. In our case study-pursued at the shoreline of Gili Trawangan (Indonesia)-we present new methods and techniques for their design and fabrication, and, ultimately, to enable regrowth of damaged coral reefs. Of particular importance is the use of underwater laser scanning and underwater...

In light of environmental challenges architecture is facing, wood is no longer regarded as outmoded, nostalgic, and rooted in the past, but increasingly recognized as one of the most promising building materials for the future. Recent years have seen unprecedented innovation of new technologies for advancing wood architecture. Advancing Wood Archi...

This paper takes a first step in characterizing a novel field of research—jammed architectural structures—where load-bearing architectural structures are automatically aggregated from bulk material. Initiated by the group of Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zürich and the Self-Assembly Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this digital fabri...

Automated fabrication techniques are currently largely confined to the production of discrete objects or building elements. To notch up the potential of robotics for architectural design, it is necessary to start to push the limits and experiment at a larger urban scale. Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are pioneers in this field. Here, with Jan...

This paper presents a novel approach to non-standard timber assembly - Robotic Timber Construction (RTC) - where robotic fabrication is used to expand additive digital fabrication techniques towards industrial full scale dimensions. Featuring robotic systems that grasp, manipulate, and finally position building components according to a precise dig...

This article presents a novel robot-based 3D printing technique for the automated fabrication of nonstandard large-scale lightweight structures. The approach offers unique advantages over conventional approaches to 3D printing: It can be performed freely in space, it is scalable, and it enables the fabrication of structures from a filament 3D print...

Today, more people than ever live in the metropolises of our world. The tension between the explosively growing metropolises and their satellite cities, and between these interconnected regions and the diminishing rural communities, present immense social and economic challenges that require entirely new ways of thinking about and materialising arc...

Remote Material Deposition (RMD) takes a first step in opening a novel approach to digital fabrication, within which material-driven robotic fabrication is not only used for construction, but as a guiding principle in the design and fabrication process: Through the digitally controlled throwing of material, a small-sized robotic system is enabled t...

The art installation Flight Assembled Architecture [1] is one of the first structures built by flying vehicles. Culminating in a 6-m-tall tower composed of 1500 foam modules (see Figures 1 and 2), the installation was assembled by four quadrocopters in 18 hours during a four-day-long live exhibition at the Fonds R?gional d'Art Contemporain (Regiona...

This paper takes an important step in characterizing a novel field of architectural research where a robotic system moves on a construction site and positions building components in-situ. Developed by the research group of Gramazio & Kohler at ETH Zurich, this approach offers unique advantages over traditional building technology: it fosters non-st...

The synthesis of data and material, which decisively failed to develop in the early digital age, is being realized — enticingly, playfully, and sensually — in today’s architecture. This becomes apparent in various medial, spatial and structural manifestations, whereby one premise persists: In the moment in which two seemingly separate worlds meet t...

This paper takes a first step in characterizing a novel field of architectural research - aerial robotic construction (ARC) - where aerial robotics is used not only for construction, but as a guiding principle in the design and fabrication process. Featuring autonomous flying vehicles that lift small building elements and position them according to...