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AIXD: AI-eXtended Design
AI-Augmented Architectural Design
AR Timber Assemblies
Architectural Design with Conditional Autoencoders
Integrated 3D Printed Facade
Think Earth SP7
2023
Robotic Plaster Spraying
Additive Manufactured Facade
Human-Machine Collaboration
2022
Timber Assembly with Distributed Architectural Robotics
Eggshell Benches
Eggshell
CantiBox
Autonomous Dry Stone
RIBB3D
Data Driven Acoustic Design
2021
Mesh Mould Prefabrication
Data Science Enabled Acoustic Design
2020
Thin Folded Concrete Structures
FrameForm
Adaptive Detailing
Deep Timber
Robotic Fabrication Simulation for Spatial Structures
Jammed Architectural Structures
RobotSculptor
2019
Digital Ceramics
2018
On-site Robotic Construction
Mesh Mould Metal
Smart Dynamic Casting and Prefabrication
Spatial Timber Assemblies
Robotic Lightweight Structures
2017
Mesh Mould and In situ Fabricator
Complex Timber Structures
2016
Spatial Wire Cutting
Robotic Integral Attachment
Mobile Robotic Tiling
2015
YOUR Software Environment
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Smart Dynamic Casting
Topology Optimization
2014
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Acoustic Bricks
2013
TailorCrete
2012
BrickDesign
Echord
2010
FlexBrick
2009
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2008
Room acoustics
GKR/ETH: only internal use meaning academic publications, general presentations, ETH related websites (also NCCR DFAB). If media have interest, they have to get in touch with Keystone and pay a fee.
GKR/ETH: only internal use meaning academic publications, general presentations, ETH related websites (also NCCR DFAB). If media have interest, they have to get in touch with Keystone and pay a fee.
GKR/ETH: only internal use meaning academic publications, general presentations, ETH related websites (also NCCR DFAB). If media have interest, they have to get in touch with Keystone and pay a fee.

GKR/ETH: only internal use meaning academic publications, general presentations, ETH related websites (also NCCR DFAB). If media have interest, they have to get in touch with Keystone and pay a fee.
GKR/ETH: only internal use meaning academic publications, general presentations, ETH related websites (also NCCR DFAB). If media have interest, they have to get in touch with Keystone and pay a fee.

Prefabrication with Smart Dynamic Casting , ETH Zurich, 2016-2018
Smart Dynamic Casting (SDC) is a continuous robotic slipforming process that enables to prefabricate material optimized load-bearing concrete structures. In this automated process a dynamic formwork significantly smaller than the structures produced is continuously moved and filled with concrete, in a velocity that enables to shape the concrete in the delicate phase when it changes from a soft to a hard material. During the first phase of SDC architectural scaled columns proved that concrete can be shaped in its delicate transition from soft to hard in a robotic process (see Smart Dynamic Casting). The second research phase, a suitable setup for prefabrication was developed for the fabrication of non-standard loadbearing elements. The current research is dedicated to the development of a fully automated robotic slip forming process, for the production of reinforced façade elements with a minimal cross section of 70 x 100 mm for the DFAB HOUSE at the Empa premises in Dübendorf, Switzerland. This includes developing a flexible formwork system that enables to shape concrete of minimal dimensions in a slipping process -, and to automate the material processing in which the hydration of the material can be controlled.
For further information on the first phase of the project see: Smart Dynamic Casting
For information on the DFAB HOUSE see: DFAB HOUSE

Credits:
Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich

In cooperation with: NCCR Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich, Pemat, Zühlke
Client: EMPA Nest, DFAB HOUSE
Collaborators: Dr. Ena Lloret-Fritschi (project lead), Prof Dr. Robert J. Flatt, Fabio Scotto, Lex Reiter, Timothy Wangler, Lukas Fuhrimann, Michael Lyrenmann, Heinz Richner, Andreas Reusser, Hans Flückige, Dr. Jaime Mata Falcon.
Selected experts: Physical Chemistry of Building Materials group (Prof. Dr. Robert J. Flatt).
Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich
Concrete Structures and Bridge Design (Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann)
Institute for Structural Engineering, ETH Zurich
Industry partner: Zühlke Engineering AG, PEMAT AG


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