Flex Wall is an artistic landscape installation of a combination with computational design, landscape architecture, interactive design, and robotic technology. This ‘wall’ functions as a vision separator in length of 60 meters between a main pathway and a parking plaza. In total, there are 121 spiral columns standing in every half meter, which are gradually changing from one to the next for revealing a panorama view as result. To obtain the capacity of producing these columns in good quality and proper accuracy, industrial arm technology is entailed to take this task by converting a conventional technique in concrete: slip-forming. Embarked on concrete slip-forming, a specific system was developed to reach a bulky production capacity. An effective end-effector was made to allow a continuous producing mode – mixing concrete, slip-forming column, curing concrete were happen sequentially in a fixed pace. Therefore, benefited from the programmable and accurate robotic system, this project was delivered right on schedule of 2 months. There is a sensor in the bottom of each column. When passengers walk closely along with the wall, the nearest lights will be turned on as an interactive effect.
