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Fibrous Architecture: Robotic Fabrication & AI Rendering

Name: Fibrous Architecture: Robotic Fabrication & AI Rendering
Price: 85.00 EUR

This workshop teaches participants to design fibrous structures, develop manual and robotic winding workflows, and generate final AI-assisted visualizations.

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Jan 17, 18, 2026

13:00 - 17:00 GMT

Saturday - Sunday

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Beginner

8 Hours

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€100.00

€85.00

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Introduction of the workshop:

The workshop will be a loop between design and fabrication revolving around emerging morphologies of fibrous trajectories. The Workshop will delve into creating a workflow from design to digital fabrication for architectural-scale installation of an aggregated fibrous structure using a six-axis KUKA robotic arm. For projects where accessibility to a robotic arm would not be possible, a low-tech system for a manual wound strategy will be implemented.

Participants will learn how to create computational workflows within Grasshopper 3D using ‘MutAnt’ for aggregation of polygonal planar geometries and ‘Weaver Ant’ to design fibrous systems for robotic winding through ‘KUKA Prc’.

What You’ll Learn?

Create a computational workflow linking digital design and fabrication in Grasshopper 3D.

Design installations for low-tech fabrication using CNC cutting and manual cable winding.

Generate planar aggregations using boundary rule sets through MutAnt.

Build and simulate a robotic winding workflow using Weaver Ant and KUKA Prc for architectural-scale fabrication.

Rendering through Nano Banana.

Fibrous Architecture: Robotic Fabrication & AI Rendering

Methodology:

This workshop guides participants through a complete workflow that moves from fabrication strategies to full robotic winding. It begins with the design of filament paths for manually wound systems using CNC-cut frames, developed through Grasshopper definitions that include formwork modeling, anchor fixtures, notching, and data extraction using Weaver Ant.

The workshop shifts to robotic fabrication, where planar frames generated through MutAnt aggregations are prepared with precise coordinates for KUKA robotic winding. Throughout the process, participants build a continuous chain from conceptual modeling and aggregation to winding pattern generation, frame preparation, robotic simulation, and final AI-assisted rendering with Nano Banana.

Program:

First Session

This session begins with the design of rope winding on a single-curved stay-in-place formwork. The filament strategy will be designed to be provided for manual winding onto a CNC-cut frame.

The workshop will focus on scripting a computational workflow within Grasshopper, from designing the frames to incorporating nuts and bolts with notches for fixing the frames together. ‘Weaver ant’ will be used to generate the filament pattern and to generate data for winding.

Introductory presentation of projects by UN[MOULD]™ pertaining to fibrous systems from an array of executed product to architectural scale strategies.
Conceptual modeling within grasshopper with required proportions of an installation
Designing formwork and anchor fixtures
Understanding Weaver Ant workflow, generating winding patterns.
Unrolling frame, text tags and making files required for CNC cutting.
Assignment with Q&A

Second Session

The second day will look into the design of rope winding on planar frames derived from aggregations. These frames will be designed with precise nuts and bolts; these coordinates will provide the anchor points for robotic winding using Weaver Ant and KUKA PRC.

Creating planar frame systems derived from aggregations generated through MutAnt.
Designing detailed planar frames in Grasshopper, including precise nuts and bolts used as anchor coordinates for robotic winding.
Generating winding geometries and knots using Weaver Ant for robotic execution.
Focusing on robotic fabrication: understanding TCP, end-effector behavior, TCP setup, KUKA movements, and simulation using KUKA Prc.
Producing final renders using Nano Banana for AI-assisted visualization.
Assignment and Q&A.

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Instructors:

Amar Shetty

Biography

Amar Shetty graduated in 2018 as an Architect and pursued the application of data-driven architectural strategies, and subsequently became an assistant faculty at BNCA’s Department of Digital Architecture in 2021.He is the Author/ Developer of ‘ Weaver Ant ‘, which was initiated in 2019 as a plugin for Grasshopper and is an outcome of research in robotic weaving, used by academicians and industry professionals, leading to the open-ended development of a plugin for varied machinic processes and digital design platforms. He has published plugins such as ‘ Weaver Ant ‘ and ‘ MutAnt ’ on food4rhino.com.He delves into developing methods that convolute a thread between data, design, and material, with human and machinic production systems within a range of products, architectural strategies, and urban installations. He investigates bridging the academic experiments and industrial applications by disseminating the strategies developed from the digital and physically manifested applications pertaining to the built environment.