Slip-Form Rock Jamming

Self-Assembly Lab, MIT + Google

Slip-Form Rock Jamming is a new technique to produce a low-cost and simple method of construction using granular jamming. Coconut husks and loose gravel were used with a slip-form mold to continuously build a load-bearing zig-zag wall.

Self-Assembly Lab, MIT:
Bjorn Sparrman, Schendy Kernizan, Jared Laucks & Skylar Tibbits

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