To watch and register to the workshops, visit PAACADEMY’s new website (paacademy.com→).

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Robots and Wood: A match made in manufacturing heaven

Industrial robots are changing how we make everything. These tools are progressively changing how buildings are made by bridging the gap between the concept of a design and the way design is completed.

Scate Chair by After Form

Russian artist and designer Oleg Soroko of After Form created Scate Chair as one of his “Parametric Furniture” collection using parametric design tools and complex algorithms in the Rhino3D and Grasshopper3D software. Scate chair is the first object from Parametric furniture collection made by Oleg Soroko in 2014.

HygroScope: Meteorosensitive Morphology by Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert

Designed by architect Achim Menges in collaboration with Steffen Reichert, “HygroScope: Meteorosensitive Morphology” appears at first glance to be a wooden model suspended within a glass case. But when the humidity level within the case rises, the system begins to breathe, ventilating the moisture-saturated air without any sensory equipment or electricity.

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