Photo of Penn Weitzman School of Design
Photo courtesy of Maeta Design and the Penn Weitzman School of Design

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How Penn architecture students are using robots to remotely design and build a pavilion

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Published on May 18, 2020

Project rendering, Hexa-Tetrahedral, by students Xuechen Chen, Huajie Ma, and Bingkun Deng
Screenshot of UPenn project rendering, Hexa-Tetrahedral
Penn students Rebeca Sanchez and Nick Kalantzopoulos working on their design prior to COVID-19 (photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design)
Photo of UPenn students Rebeca Sanchez and Nick Kalantzopoulos

Still image: Weaving Diagram, Discrete Flux, by students Gordon Cheng and Jean Yuan. Video: Compilation of animations from the seminar featuring work for the Venice Biennale

“Dropbox Spaces has been really helpful in keeping everything in the same place and organized. We're using it as an operating system for our collaboration."—Ezio Blasetti

Class homepage as a Dropbox Space
Screenshot of Class homepage as a Dropbox Space
Penn Professor Ezio Blasetti controlling fabrication robots in his studio. Image courtesy of Maeta Design and the Weitzman School of Design
Photo of UPenn Professor Ezio Blasetti
Design concepts in Dropbox Paper
Screenshot of design concepts in Dropbox Paper
Design courtesy of students Xuechen Chen, Huajie Ma, and Bingkun Deng
Screenshot of design by UPenn students
Design by students Gordon Cheng and Jean Yuan
Screenshot of design by UPenn students Gordon Cheng and Jean Yuan
One of final renders planned for the Venice Biennale
Image of final render for the Venice Biennale