Post-industrial robotics. Processo computazionale e nuovi metodi produttivi per l’esplorazione di architetture informate nell'era post-digitale

The concept of performance in architecture is related on his ability to create a dynamic relation with the users, function and with the environment in which architecture is placed. The dynamic relation can be explained through a series of design operations that are able to exploit the potentialities offered by technological innovation of the contemporary era: responsive devices able to respond to external stimuli with mechanical systems or with material properties are possible interpretation of the dynamic relation between architecture and external environment. If the benefits derived from the use of the dynamic systems are well known in contemporary architectural practice, equally obvious are the critical issues as the scalability of the processes, the economic and the formal aspects. Within this scenario, generative design and digital computing play a key role in the efficient exploration of design solutions, as well as for the ability to focus on a single workflow, formal generation, simulation of dynamic phenomena and manufacturing. The theoretical assumptions have been tested through the implementation of a series of informed architectures at the scale 1: 1 where performances inform the computational process and the robotic fabrication process. Process analysis, besides defining the limits and potentials of the design approach, opens the debate on the role of technological experimentation in the post-digital era defined as po.st - industrial robotics.