康奈尔大学建筑、艺术和规划学院宣布了他们对翡翠白蜡象甲虫的创造性和批判性反应的一个重要步骤，这种入侵物种破坏了全国各地的本地白蜡树。翡翠白蜡虫被认为是在2002年夏天通过人类贸易和旅行引入美国森林的，今天威胁着全国87亿棵树和纽约州近十分之一的白蜡树。 HANNAH办公室在纽约州北部农村设计并建造了一个全尺寸的木屋原型，以应对环境危机，并推动了机器人和3D打印等技术在木材和混凝土建筑中的应用。

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University announce an important step in their creative and critical response to the Emerald Ash Borer beetle, an invasive species devastating native Ash trees across the country. The Emerald Ash Borer is thought to have been introduced to American forests via human trade and travel in the summer of 2002, and today threatens 8.7 billion trees across the country and nearly one in ten Ash trees in New York state. HANNAH Office has designed and constructed a full-scale prototype cabin home in rural Upstate New York, that responds to the environmental crisis, and, advances the use of technologies such as robotics and 3D printing in timber and concrete construction.

机器人技术和3D打印混凝土使之成为可能。不断进步的技术–特别是机器人技术和3D打印混凝土–以及它们在建筑设计学科和建筑行业中的使用，使使用受侵袭的白蜡树成为可能。Zivkovic是康奈尔大学机器人建筑实验室（RCL）的主任，该团队在那里建立了一个定制的机器人平台，其唯一目的是处理不规则的白蜡树。 他们使用的机器人手臂是在eBay上发现的，以前为通用汽车公司制造过汽车。Zivkovic和RCL团队重新利用了这个机器人，对其进行了重新编程，以可用于结构和设计元素的规模，有条不紊地锯开和塑造木材。

Made Possible by Robotics and 3D-Printed Concrete. Consistently advancing technologies — specifically robotics and 3D printed concrete — and their use in the architectural design discipline and construction industries make the use of infested ash trees possible. Zivkovic is director of the Robotic Construction Lab (RCL) at Cornell, where the team built a custom robotic platform for the sole purpose of processing the irregular ash trees. The robotic arm they use was discovered on eBay and previously built cars for General Motors. Zivkovic and the RCL team repurposed the robot, reprogramming it to methodically saw and shape the wood at a scale usable for structural and design elements.

混凝土是地球上使用最广泛的建筑材料之一，为了应对这一问题，康奈尔大学的研究人员开发了全尺寸的3D打印系统，该系统不需要模板，在生产过程中使用的混凝土量绝对最少。这节省了大量的材料，大大改善了混凝土建筑的二氧化碳足迹。

In response to the use of concrete, one of the most widely used building materials on earth, the Cornell researchers developed the full-scale 3D printing system that requires no formwork and uses the absolute minimum amount of concrete in the production process. This saves a significant amount of material, significantly improving the CO2 footprint of concrete construction.

他们使用的机械臂是在eBay上发现的，以前为通用汽车公司制造过汽车。Zivkovic和RCL团队重新利用了这个机器人，对其进行了重新编程，以可用于结构和设计元素的规模，有条不紊地锯开和塑造木材。 混凝土是地球上使用最广泛的建筑材料之一，为了应对这一问题，康奈尔大学的研究人员开发了全尺寸的3D打印系统，该系统不需要模板，在生产过程中使用的混凝土量绝对最少。这节省了大量的材料，大大改善了混凝土建筑的二氧化碳足迹。

The robotic arm they use was discovered on eBay and previously built cars for General Motors. Zivkovic and the RCL team repurposed the robot, reprogramming it to methodically saw and shape the wood at a scale usable for structural and design elements. In response to the use of concrete, one of the most widely used building materials on earth, the Cornell researchers developed the full-scale 3D printing system that requires no formwork and uses the absolute minimum amount of concrete in the production process. This saves a significant amount of material, significantly improving the CO2 footprint of concrete construction.

对明天的展望。小屋展示了一种新的方式来思考美国甚至更远地区的可持续住房设计、开发和建设。其创造性的设计结合了美国最广泛使用的两种建筑材料（混凝土和木材），从根本上重新思考了使用它们的技术和方法。

A Vision for Tomorrow. The cabin demonstrates a new way to think about sustainable housing design, development, and construction in the United States and perhaps beyond. Its inventive design combines two of the most widely used construction materials in the US (concrete and timber), rethinking techniques and approaches for using them from the ground up.

其他行业已经从颠覆性技术中受益匪浅，这些技术使生产更有效，资源密集度更低。然而，住宅建筑业几十年来一直没有变化。Lok和Zivkovic的研究和开发的设计语言是以当前的气候紧急情况为背景的，为可能的未来提供了一个强有力的理由，建筑师、工程师和建筑专业人士可以直接受益于从实验室或工作室出现的原型，这些原型是为反复测试、持续的批判性思维和投机设计而准备的。

Other industries have benefited enormously from disruptive technologies that make production more efficient and less resource-intensive. The residential construction industry, however, has remained unchanged for decades. Lok and Zivkovic’s research and development of a design language informed by the context of the current climate emergency make a strong case for a possible future where architects, engineers, and construction professionals can benefit directly from prototypes that emerge from labs or studios geared for iterative testing, sustained critical thinking, and speculative design.

该项目对环境的关注和对先进技术的创造性使用相结合，有望激发富有想象力的设计，提高建筑中的材料效率，降低长期建筑成本，并增加分布式制造工具的可用性和多功能性，为未来的房主提供前所未有的大规模定制。

The project’s combined environmental concern and inventive use of advancing technologies promise to inspire imaginative design, improve material efficiency in construction, reduce long-term construction costs, and increase the availability and versatility of tools for distributed manufacturing that offer unprecedented mass customization to the future homeowners.

Architects: HANNAH
Year: 2021
Photographs: Andy Chen, Reuben Chen
Country：UNITED STATES