Phase 4: Three-Dimensional Speculation

"Your wall, My wall"

South-East Asia urban landscape are largely dominated by high-rises, which is the common typology for residential space. However, current construction technologies are still rooted in an old industrial paradigm. The majority of modern-day structures are strongly driven by efficiency and economics which results in architecture that is dull and limited in its expression or otherwise uneconomical and impractical in terms of production.

Essentially, the question is how would a new paradigm shift in construction technologies towards robotic, automation, and swarm intelligence would contribute to the differentiation of our daily environment both on a human scale and in a larger context of urban planning and development, where space grows dynamically and become connected whole.

The project speculates on the future of localized parts-to-whole process as opposed to the traditional top-down strategy . The current production mode is shifted from constructed whole towards incremental growth and aggregation, where building is composed of a discrete self-assembling system of floor, ceiling, and wall elements that is infinitely reconfigurable according to demands and changes.

The automated construction system would consist of a hierarchy of interconnected machines intelligence where the process is localized in a sense that each components relate to their neighbour and the surroundings, where they do not necessarily have an overall view of the process, but they are programmed just to do one task and ultimately build up the unified system. The production of universal components in a large scale would  allow the resources and material to be reused and relocated- resulting in architecture that is flexible  and articulated without extra cost.