The Digital in Architecture II

Prof. Fabio Gramazio Prof. Matthias Kohler Jesús Medina

063-0611-00L Autumn Semester 2019

Lecture Thu 15:00 – 16:00

Exercise Thu 16:00 – 18:00

Room HIB D13.1

About the course

Subject of the course is robotic fabrication in architecture. Through exercises, basic skills such as robotic control are being taught and applied to a small design and fabrication project. The course teaches how to develop a simple fabrication and material aware digital design process linked to a robotic fabrication procedure.

Students learn to use industrial robots such as the Universal Robot UR5 and understand basic principles of robotic control. At the end of the course, students are able to translate simple design ideas into robotic fabrication processes, which they can run independently. Furthermore students deepen their skills in Python and Grasshopper, which they have acquired in the course “The Digital in Architecture 1”.

see in Course Catalogue

News & Updates

19.09.2019 First session -> Course intro

16.09.2019 Information event: 11:00-12:00, HIB Open Space (Floor E)

Lectures

19.09.2018 Session 1 Intro

26.09.2018 Session 2 Installation Party

03.10.2018 Session 3 Introduction to UR5 online control setup

10.10.2018 Session 4 Desk-crit, process iterations

17.10.2018 Session 5 Mid-term presentation

24.10.2018 n.a. Seminarweek

31.11.2018 Session 6 Design development

07.11.2018 Session 7 Tooling design

14.11.2018 Session 8 Integration of tooling design

21.11.2018 Session 9 Desk-crit, process iterations

28.11.2018 Session 10 Design iteration and documentation

05.12.2018 Session 11 Final presentation

Exercises

Bring your laptop + mouse!

Required software: Rhinoceros 6 for Windows and Grasshopper (see details and install instructions).

19.09.2019 Exercise 1 [assignment] [submit] Intro

Contact

For general questions and discussions, join us on slack.

Jesús Medina medina@arch.ethz.ch +41 44 633 01 76