MoDA’s ATTAbotics Headquarters is Inspired by Ant Colonies


Rendering. Image Courtesy of Modern Office of Design + Architecture

Rendering. Image Courtesy of Modern Office of Design + Architecture

Calgary’s upcoming ATTAbotics Headquarters, designed by the Modern Office of Design + Architecture, physicalizes complex circulatory systems into a structure that is simultaneously aesthetically pleasing and programmatically successful. The client, a robotics manufacturer, was initially inspired by the spatial organization of ant colonies in their design for their emblematic robotic storage and retrieval system. This attribute consequently embeds itself in the new design for their headquarters, which navigates height restrictions, views, programming, and sustainability within this already intricate system of organization.  

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