2024-05-09T16:36:17-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150282218/chicago-architecture-biennial-a-new-pavilion-by-som-taubman-college-makes-a-statement-about-slt-technology Josh Niland 2021-09-21T19:26:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/26/265f8d1ee216e41863bd409fcc923120.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As part of their contribution to the 2021 <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/465082/chicago-architecture-biennial" target="_blank">Chicago Architecture Biennial</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/skidmoreowingsmerrill" target="_blank">Skidmore Owings &amp; Merrill</a> has teamed up with the University of Michigan&rsquo;s <a href="https://archinect.com/taubmancollege" target="_blank">Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning</a>&nbsp;on the design of a robotically fabricated timber pavilion.&nbsp;</p> <p>The project is the result of a year&rsquo;s worth of research by Taubman Professors Tsz Yan Ng and Wes McGee and is meant as a showcase for the power of robotics to produce efficient and sustainable methods of design and construction.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d5/d5e9f4a100b04073390252509713d35a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d5/d5e9f4a100b04073390252509713d35a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: Kendall McCaugherty &copy; Hall+Merrick Photographers</figcaption></figure><p>&ldquo;Automated manufacturing technologies enable us to precisely and efficiently prefabricate a kit of parts which can be delivered to the construction site on demand, leveraging skilled labor where it is most effective in the process,&rdquo; Ng and McGee said in a statement.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/38/387d3bfc08a81e9e989e6bb433f47909.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/38/387d3bfc08a81e9e989e6bb433f47909.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: Kendall McCaugherty &copy; Hall+Merrick Photographers</figcaption></figure><p>The processors report that the Spatial Laminated Timber (SLT) they used reduces up to 46% of material use when compared to more trad...</p>