Interactive Architecture Lab Research Cluster 3
3.14
3.15 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
3.16 Figs. 3.14 – 3.17 ‘Golem RONomad’. Inspired by Ron Herron’s Walking City (1964), Rodney Brooks’ Genghis robot (1989) and walking morphologies in biological systems, the architectural scale walking structure consists of six ‘legs’ connected to a main body which functions as a shelter. Mobility is achieved by actuating the 6 ‘legs’ to generate biomorphic walking movements. The ‘legs’ and ’body’ can break down to individual modules with the same compositions assembled by the Golem-Kit. Each ‘leg’ has same range of movements in multiple degrees of freedom, and the same sequence of actuation in alternating orders, generating biomorphic gaits to achieve mobility.
102
3.17