Ohio-based studio Outpost Office has created a temporary "performance venue" that was drawn by GPS-controlled robots on grass using water-soluble paint.
Called Drawing Fields, the project was a set of site-specific, 1:1 scale drawings created by GPS-controlled robots that produced what the project's architects called "an unconventional stage."
Drawing Fields was a temporary installation
Informed by land art, the robots drew temporary patterns using water-soluble, non-toxic paint on a large expanse of grass in formations that recalled sports line-markings.
The installation was located at Ragdale, the former summerhouse of the late architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, in Illinois, and was the winning entry of the 2020 Ragdale Ring competition ? an annual residency in which an architect builds a temporary performance venue at Ragdale's grounds. The project took place at the Ragdale campus
Drawing Fields was designed to respond to the competition's theme of mobility.
"The design of each pattern took into account the unique perspectives possible through aerial photography and explored tactics of measurement, calibration, and control across the landscape," Outpost Office co-founders Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann told Dezeen.
GPS-controlled robots created the drawings
"Drawing Fields was a temporary performance venue that utilised GPS-controlled field marking robots to draw site-specific, building-scale drawings," explained the designers.
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