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The project “Haptic Reality: Novel Interfacing for Informed Assembly Systems” explores haptic interfaces and material interactions coupled with digital computation. These interfaces are applied to a series of augmented architectural processes including real-time component build up, collaborative assembly in limited visibility and handheld tool orientation. The haptic interface exists between the body and the material, gathering information through touch. The ability to collect, process and compute this information offers a new form of digital support for human builders. This novel approach frees the user from restraints of prediction during the planning phase. The interface accomplishes this by opening up new opportunities to work with the reality of changing onsite conditions, deviating plans and material variability while supplying intuitive bidirectional information, translating digital suggestions into physical guidance. Due to the low cost and light packaging of the interface itself, it is accessible and can be distributed amongst many users. As such, this research imagines adaptive human-built structures that are continuously informed by material interaction and computational support during the entirety of the construction process.
ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2019: Haptic Reality - Novel Interfacing for Informed Assembly Systems
Samantha Melnyk, Tamara Rosales Rodriguez, Robert Faulkner, Naomi Tashiro
Thesis Advisers: Tiffany Cheng, Yasaman Tahouni, Dylan Wood
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Achim Menges
Second Supervisor: Prof. Jan Knippers
with support of: Bernard Javot (MPI-IS)