Gramazio Kohler Research

The Elective Course establishes a conceptual framework of the digital in architecture with special regard to digital and robotic fabrication. Departing from the work of Gramazio Kohler Research, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler presented the digital and its concepts in architecture and current developments in the field of digital fabrication. In two seminars knowledge on design strategies based on digital methods were related to the students' own design approach and its wider context.
The exercises focussed on simple yet powerful methods of digital, computational and algorithmic design as well as digital fabrication techniques. Based on the Brick Bond design examples, the students learned the basics of parametric and algorithmic modelling using Rhino and Grasshopper software as well as Python programming language. Through 3D printing the designs were realized.

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Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich

Collaborators: Hannes Mayer, Dr. Aleksandra Anna Apolinarska (project lead), Jesús Medina Ibáñez
Students: Sandrine Badoux, Simon Berger, Lukas Blum, Eric Bonhôte, Silvia Brotz, Edvardas Bukota, Tanguy Caversaccio, Victoria Desponds, Elif Erez, Julian Fischbacher, Aurèle Gheyselinck, Rena Giesecke, Fabrizio Gramegna, Johannes Hirsbrunner, Shady Huber, Kevin Hüppi, Severin Jann, Weilan Jiang, Michel Kessler, Mira Kind, Fabian Kuonen, Alisa Labrenz, Mélanie Lai, Cyriac Levet, Magnus Lidman, Gabriel Souto, Xiao Lu, Kelly Man, Nora Molari, David Moser, Noël Picco, Vera Rüegger, Tobias Saner, Fabienne Schwartz, Lukas Stadelmann, Petra Steinegger, Magdalena Stolze, Christoph Strässle, Julien Tacca, Luka Travas, Joana Tschopp, Tobias Wagner, Sarah Weber, Tobias Wick, Alina Wyder, Bing Yang, Luca Zehnder, Chenfan Zhu


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