Testing how robots could build homes
As part of the Stitch project, I was invited as an Artist in Residence at Autodesk BUILD Space in Boston, MA, a world-class fabrication facility where I explored manufacturing techniques and built physical prototypes to test the ideas behind the project.
Stitch is a housing proposal for London built around a simple idea: the city already has an enormous network of railway lines, and much of the land around them sits idle. What if that infrastructure could become a production and delivery system for affordable, modular homes, each one robotically fabricated and shipped directly along the rail network?
Each home would be configured by its future residents through a game-like tool, then built and delivered, keeping costs low and construction fast. The project also thinks carefully about community: who lives near whom, and how shared spaces can encourage people to actually connect.
Developed at the AA Design Research Laboratory with Edward Meyers, Andrew Friedenberg, and Aldo Sicilia.
