Professor Ingeborg M. Rocker of Rocker-Lange Architects and students at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (USA) have used a robot to build an undulating double-wall structure. The robot arm was programmed to place 4,100 wooden bricks to create complex double-curvature walls. The project, called On the Bri(n)ck, was a collaboration between the school’s computer-aided design and computer-aided construction departments.

And even though this project reminded us strongly of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, we would have loved those robots to put up the walls for our cardboard cafe that we presented last year. A similar structure created from 9.000 cardboard boxes – all put together by using pure human power (no robots unfortunately).

The wall is on show at the school until 30 June.