In order to construct complex full-scale prototypes, the students at the RPI School of Architecture used Fologram with a Hololens 2 in conjunction with a robotic arm for an option studio exploring the future of labor and robotics.
In the Course Speculative Autonomy & Unfulfillment taught by Riley Studebaker, students imagined post-anthropocentric worlds where existing structures were disassembled and reconfigured into new, live building systems. Students demonstrated this concept by repurposing steel EMT pipes fixed with aruco markers into complex assemblies, using Fologram to achieve the complex positioning. Fologram and the Hololens 2 were essential to the success of the student work, with students building with Fologram less than an hour after first being introduced to the software.
These tools are being worked into the core education at the RPI School of Architecture”