CAAD Futures 2023 Conference 5.–7. July 2023, TU Delft Dominik Reisach: “A Design-to-Fabrication Workflow for Free-Form Timber Structures using Offcuts”Presentation of the paper in Session 6 – Digital Design, Materials and Fabrication7. July 2023 About CAAD Futures: CAAD Futures (www.caadfutures.org) is a biannual international conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design. CAAD Futures is profiled for advancing […]
Keep Reading →Repurposing of Waste Marble Slabs for Architectural Finishes Doctoral Candidate: Dominik ReisachCo-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger, Digital Building Technologies, ETH Zurich This research explores methods for repurposing discarded materials from the marble quarrying and processing industry in Europe. A representative material with several varieties and distinct aesthetic qualities, marble has been employed in the construction […]
Keep Reading →Schatzalp Balustrades The project deals with the design, planning and realisation of new balustrade elements for the Hotel Schatzalp in Davos, Switzerland. The hotel and former sanatorium is one of the early large-scale reinforced concrete buildings in Switzerland and is also internationally recognised. The existing wooden balustrade elements are in poor condition and no longer […]
Keep Reading →High-Tech for High-Tech: On the Potential of Digital Fabrication for the Repair of Architectural Innovation of the 1980s Doctoral Candidate: Matthias BrennerCo-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger, Digital Building Technologies, ETH ZurichCollaboration: Prof. Dr. Markus Bambach, Advanced Manufacturing Lab, ETH Zurich Due to their relatively young age, buildings of the 1980s are rarely considered objects worth […]
Keep Reading →Fabricate 2014: Negotiating Design & Making Gramazio, Fabio, Matthias Kohler, and Silke Langenberg, eds. 2017. Fabricate 2014: Negotiating Design & Making. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352148. FABRICATE is an international peer reviewed conference that takes place every three years with a supporting publication on the theme of Digital Fabrication. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design […]
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