%A Christophe GIROT, Ilmar HURKXKENS %T ROBOTIC LANDSCAPES — NATURE, COMPUTATION, AND THE DESIGN SPACE OF AUTONOMOUS TERRAIN MODELING %0 Journal Article %D 2018 %J Landsc. Archit. Front. %J Landscape Architecture Frontiers %@ 2096-336X %R 10.15302/J-LAF-20180208 %P 64-75 %V 6 %N 2 %U {https://journal.hep.com.cn/laf/EN/10.15302/J-LAF-20180208 %8 2018-06-26 %X

An experimental studio on a highway site in Canton of Ticino in Switzerland held at the ETH in the fall of 2017 is the result of a collaborative project with the National Center of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication, ETH Zürich. The work shows a series of designs that were developed through procedural and robotic principles. The landscape models based on a Lidar point cloud data set of the entire Ticino Valley served as the basis of all terrain operations. The results obtained after a 15-week studio are encouraging and show the way towards a new way of conceiving landscapes through robotic design.