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AUAR Home-Office
London, United Kingdom
Project Featured on Mar 28, 2020
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2020
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
London & Bristol-based design and technology consultancy Automated Architecture (AUAR,pronounced 'our') builds their temporary Home-Office using robotically fabricated, reconfigurable timber building blocks.
While looking for new office space, AUAR designed and built a temporary installation at The Building Centre in London, which acts as home, office and co-working space. The installation is based on ‘ALIS’ (Automated Living System), AUAR’s automated construction system for housing. ALIS uses robotically prefabricated plywood building blocks, with reversible connections that allow for quick reconfiguration and adaptation of the system over time. The installation is an active laboratory for AUAR to test the use of the ALIS system for different applications as well as acts as a live prototype for ongoing projects.
The ALIS building blocks construct all elements of the Home-Office from private workspaces, to a large meeting table, load-bearing walls, floors slabs and a lounge corner with cushions. The space is designed as a chunk or volumetric section of a building that can accommodate both housing, work space and public functions constructed using only one repeating, pixel-like building block. The building blocks are lightweight and can be quickly assembled without the need for specialised tools, cranes or an extensively trained workforce. The blocks themselves were used also as scaffolding and supports during the assembly of the Home-Office. The whole installation fits in a single Luton van, allowing it to be easily and quickly transported to a new site after the AUAR residency at The Building Centre is completed.
Up to 10 people can work and relax in the space at the same time, while visitors can join in and reserve a workspace using an online application. Potential users can spin around a 3D model and click on a timber building block to book it for a given amount of time. A number of blocks are reserved for AUAR employees, who use them as fixed workspaces. The workspaces are arranged around the central lounge corner, with every workspace creating a private, semi-enclosed setting where users can focus on their work without being distracted by visitors to the installation.
At the next stage, the building blocks will be again re-assembled and configured to form AUAR’s next home, this time on a site in Hackney Wick, supported by London Borough of Hackney. In this setting, the project will be doubling as office-space and community accelerator, hosting a series of events with the local community, such as local government agencies, higher education institutions, arts and performance organisations, groups focused on the development of local youth leadership, aging and the future of housing..
The ALIS building blocks were initially developed by a team of post-graduate students at the Design Computation Lab, AUAR’s research arm based at University College of London (www.designcomputationlab.org), as an automated construction system for housing. The system is based on a single, repeating building block, which can be cut by a CNC machine and robotically assembled by two industrial robots. Once prefabricated, the building blocks can be assembled into a variety of home typologies, from single family houses to backyard extensions and complete multi-story housing units, which can all be reconfigured and adapted over time. A set of algorithms was produced to generate and evaluate different building assemblies.
With ALIS, AUAR wants to advocate alternative models for automation platforms for housing, which allows local construction, interaction with community groups and adaptation over time.
About AUAR: AUAR (pronounced 'our') is a multi-faceted design and technology consultancy based in the UK with offices in Bristol and London working holistically across technology, design and research. AUAR develops new approaches and technologies that enable increasing degrees of automation in the production of the built environment to be adopted, from the 'micro' scale of products to large-scale architectural proposals and innovative experiences.
AUAR Home Office is still on show at the Building Centre in Store Street, London until 14th of March.
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/
Credits:
AUAR Home-Office:
Design and fabrication: Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR) https://www.automatedarchitecture.io/
Design Team: Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jiménez García, Vicente Soler, Mollie Claypool, Kevin Saey, Joana Correia
Fabrication Team: Kevin Saey, Danae Parisi, Clara Jaschke, David Doria, Kim Van Poeteren, Mollie Claypool, Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jiménez García.
Photography: Studio NAARO
ALIS Building System:
Design Computation Lab and B-Pro Research Cluster 4, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL /designcomputationlab.org
Tutors: Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jiménez García, Vicente Soler, Mollie Claypool
Students: Akhmet Khakimov, Estefania Barrios, Evgenia Krassakopoulou, Joana Correia, Kevin Saey
Engineering: Manja van de Worp (YIP Engineering)
While looking for new office space, AUAR designed and built a temporary installation at The Building Centre in London, which acts as home, office and co-working space. The installation is based on ‘ALIS’ (Automated Living System), AUAR’s automated construction system for housing. ALIS uses robotically prefabricated plywood building blocks, with reversible connections that allow for quick reconfiguration and adaptation of the system over time. The installation is an active laboratory for AUAR to test the use of the ALIS system for different applications as well as acts as a live prototype for ongoing projects.
The ALIS building blocks construct all elements of the Home-Office from private workspaces, to a large meeting table, load-bearing walls, floors slabs and a lounge corner with cushions. The space is designed as a chunk or volumetric section of a building that can accommodate both housing, work space and public functions constructed using only one repeating, pixel-like building block. The building blocks are lightweight and can be quickly assembled without the need for specialised tools, cranes or an extensively trained workforce. The blocks themselves were used also as scaffolding and supports during the assembly of the Home-Office. The whole installation fits in a single Luton van, allowing it to be easily and quickly transported to a new site after the AUAR residency at The Building Centre is completed.
Up to 10 people can work and relax in the space at the same time, while visitors can join in and reserve a workspace using an online application. Potential users can spin around a 3D model and click on a timber building block to book it for a given amount of time. A number of blocks are reserved for AUAR employees, who use them as fixed workspaces. The workspaces are arranged around the central lounge corner, with every workspace creating a private, semi-enclosed setting where users can focus on their work without being distracted by visitors to the installation.
At the next stage, the building blocks will be again re-assembled and configured to form AUAR’s next home, this time on a site in Hackney Wick, supported by London Borough of Hackney. In this setting, the project will be doubling as office-space and community accelerator, hosting a series of events with the local community, such as local government agencies, higher education institutions, arts and performance organisations, groups focused on the development of local youth leadership, aging and the future of housing..
The ALIS building blocks were initially developed by a team of post-graduate students at the Design Computation Lab, AUAR’s research arm based at University College of London (www.designcomputationlab.org), as an automated construction system for housing. The system is based on a single, repeating building block, which can be cut by a CNC machine and robotically assembled by two industrial robots. Once prefabricated, the building blocks can be assembled into a variety of home typologies, from single family houses to backyard extensions and complete multi-story housing units, which can all be reconfigured and adapted over time. A set of algorithms was produced to generate and evaluate different building assemblies.
With ALIS, AUAR wants to advocate alternative models for automation platforms for housing, which allows local construction, interaction with community groups and adaptation over time.
About AUAR: AUAR (pronounced 'our') is a multi-faceted design and technology consultancy based in the UK with offices in Bristol and London working holistically across technology, design and research. AUAR develops new approaches and technologies that enable increasing degrees of automation in the production of the built environment to be adopted, from the 'micro' scale of products to large-scale architectural proposals and innovative experiences.
AUAR Home Office is still on show at the Building Centre in Store Street, London until 14th of March.
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/
Credits:
AUAR Home-Office:
Design and fabrication: Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR) https://www.automatedarchitecture.io/
Design Team: Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jiménez García, Vicente Soler, Mollie Claypool, Kevin Saey, Joana Correia
Fabrication Team: Kevin Saey, Danae Parisi, Clara Jaschke, David Doria, Kim Van Poeteren, Mollie Claypool, Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jiménez García.
Photography: Studio NAARO
ALIS Building System:
Design Computation Lab and B-Pro Research Cluster 4, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL /designcomputationlab.org
Tutors: Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jiménez García, Vicente Soler, Mollie Claypool
Students: Akhmet Khakimov, Estefania Barrios, Evgenia Krassakopoulou, Joana Correia, Kevin Saey
Engineering: Manja van de Worp (YIP Engineering)
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