Publication date:
2019/04/09
Students of the Faculty of Architecture created a model of possible habitation cells on Mars. The collaborative robot (cobot) borrowed from Universal Robots helped them with building them. The model is made up of a series of panels that the cobot weaved from hemp and jute fibers. The faculty collaborated with the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. Visitors can see a two meter high model in the faculty atrium. Its spherical shape consists of composite panels woven from natural fibers. The hemp fiber is four millimeters thick, the jute cord is two millimeters in diameter. The fibers were impregnated with a glue solution to cure them.
First, the students created a template in which the cobot had to weave a web pattern, then the young architects designed their own recycled PET container, which was attached to the robot arm and passed through the weaving of the fiber that was simultaneously soaked with glue. Students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) had been assigned with the Mars habitation design as part of the Experimental Studio Achten-Nováková. Eleven proposals were created during the semester, only the winning one was realized. Forty-one students worked there, thirty-three of whom were students from Delft, the Netherlands. The Technical University cooperated on the project from the beginning.
Foto: Serdar Asut
