Interactive Robotic Plastering (IRoP)

This project was developed as the meeting point of 2 research topics.

1. The key concept of intuitive design where human gestures are used as design tool to express very singular and sensible expression. 

2. The process of robotic plastering allows us to think through a different paradigms where plaster is applied by iteration of very fine and subtle layers on the wall.

In that sense plaster represents for our group a material that allows us to experiment between a pragmatic approach of “how to apply plaster on a wall’ and the very sensible question of “how to create a new digital materiality with a true sensible expression” taking in account precedent works and looking ahead to improve these research topics.

Summary: Using a Vive lighthouse environment and a hand controller, the user can design intuitively shapes on the wall. The 3D gestures and shapes are then taken into consideration and translated to robotic fabrication parameters for the robotic plaster spraying, in order to produce a continuous design with various volumetric qualities.