“Fusta Robotica”: Generic tools for complex structure through the performances

The contribution aims to examine, through the study of a prototype scale 1:1 realized within the program IaaC OTF1, innovations that robotics manufacturing and digital computing may introduce in architecture through the use of natural materials available locally. Thanks to those strategies is possible to change the "mass production" paradigm which still represents the construction sector and initiate a transformation process able to maintain the same efficiency in terms of cost and time of construction but based on structural, material and environmental performances of the architecture. The "Fusta Robotica" prototype has been realized starting from a complex design informed on the quality of the used material, low quality Catalan wood, and on the robotic manufacturing process able to produce infinite different components through a digital customized process. This process allows to create "informed" and optimized architectures, made through the use of generic machines of industrial origin as the robot, where the "performance" concept becomes fundamental in the initial phase of the project.