ABSTRACT
Industrial prefabrication in architectural design motivated architects and engineers throughout the 20th century, whereas on the everyday construction site the process is still human driven. Part of the challenge is that there are currently only a handful of projects that involve human-robot collaboration for large-scale digital fabrication in public space and so there is much to learn from each attempt to deploy such systems. The Sentiment Cocoon is an interactive sculpture, woven in situ out of a translucent fabric, within the building atrium, the action of which turned the site, unexpectedly, into a performative stage for social encounters during the fabrication process as well in the steps that followed. Media Architecture scholars argued that concepts and practices from dance and choreography provide a framework for the generation and interpretation of interactions that are enabled through time-based media. The human roles during the sequential performance were mostly preassigned.
