Facing a dramatically increasing urbanization worldwide and our limited resources, we need to find new ways to design and fabricate buildings. Digitalization and automation, which are still in their infancy in architecture and the construction industry, must play a key role in this field. The research group Digital Building Technologies investigates how to create a more sustainable and more diverse built environment through the combination of computer-aided design methods and digital manufacturing processes such as large-format 3D printing. This talk will focus on the possibilities of additive manufacturing in the field of concrete construction. Novel strategies will be presented in which 3D printing can not only help to use concrete more efficiently, but also to fabricate complex and customized designs. Finally, this talk will present a vision of a radically digitalized process from design to fabrication in architecture.
Benjamin Dillenburger is an architect who explores computational design methods and digital fabrication to broaden the design freedom and to create a more sustainable built environment. One focus of research is the application of large-format 3D printing in construction. He leads the research group of Digital Building Technologies at ETH Zurich and is Principal Investigator of the Swiss National Competence Centre of Research in Digital Fabrication.
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