Valentino Tagliaboschi

Robotic Fabrication

Advanced seminars exploring how industrial robots can be used as design and fabrication tools for architecture.

Courses included

Keywords

Robotic fabrication, robotic milling, pick-and-place, part-to-tool workflows, material scanning, circular timber, robotic assembly.

Overview

These seminars explore robotics as part of a new culture of architectural production.

Robots are introduced as tools to rethink how we design, use materials and build.

Overhead robotics workshop view with participants and two industrial robots.

Hybrid Fabrication Workflows

Robotic fabrication is presented as a sequence of connected operations, not as a single automated task. Students learn how digital design, material preparation, machining, assembly and finishing influence each other.

Industrial robot milling a laminated prototype.

Segmented Shells and Robotic Assembly

Complex forms are broken down into smaller parts that can be fabricated, handled and assembled. The focus is on making architectural systems buildable through clear geometry and construction logic.

Robot setup over timber and plywood fabrication components.
Robot placing timber sticks into an assembly.
Segmented timber shell prototype in a workshop setting.

Pick-and-Place as Spatial Design

Pick-and-place exercises turn assembly into a design problem. Students explore how sequence, orientation and fixing methods shape the final spatial result.

Material Intelligence and Circular Construction

Reclaimed and irregular materials are treated as design resources rather than waste. Robotic workflows help read, organise and transform them into new construction possibilities.

Robotic end effector scanning or processing reclaimed timber boards.

Technology and Craft

Advanced technologies are most powerful when they respond to real materials, people and places.

The seminars explore how computation and robotics can support local resources, craft knowledge and new forms of architectural production.

Robot milling a raw timber element during a fabrication workshop.
Detail of raw timber joined into a prototype structure.
Full-scale raw timber structure in a tropical site context.