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A look back at ROB|ARCH 2018

Hosted by NCCR Digital Fabrication, the fourth edition of the ROB|ARCH conference series took place in September 2018, bringing together more than 400 academics and practitioners to discuss and experiment with current advances in the field of robotics in architecture, art and design.

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Excellent participation at the 1st RILEM Digital Concrete conference

From the 10th to 12th September the first international conference on digital fabrication with concrete took place at ETH Zurich. This event was sponsored by RILEM, the leading academic construction materials research society in Europe, and was hosted by the NCCR Digital Fabrication and the Chair of Physical Chemistry of Building Materials. With over 40% of the 275 attendees from 26 different countries representing industry, this highly diverse group converged to present and discuss research in this new research field, and its direct application in real world projects.

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A five-tonne concrete shell created using 50kg of digitally knitted formwork, and some balloons.

A highly geometric shell pavilion has been built as a collaboration between NCCR researchers, Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHCODE), and Architecture Extrapolated (R-Ex). The computationally designed shell’s formwork is a knitted textile supported by a steel cable-net, stiffened with specialised mortar, then coated with structural concrete. The structure, called KnitCandela, on exhibition in Mexico City, is an homage to Spanish-Mexican architect Felix Candela (1910–1997), and marks the first application of an innovation supported by this NCCR executed at full architectural scale.

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Fabio Gramazio and Roland Siegwart named among Switzerland’s top 100 digital shapers

Congratulations to NCCR Digital Fabrication PIs Fabio Gramazio and Roland Siegwart who have been named among Switzerland’s top 100 digital shapers by Le Temps magazine. The list is a who’s who from the fields of academia, industry, entrepreneurs and benefactors.

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80m2 concrete slab fabricated using 3D sand printing

As part of DFAB HOUSE, researchers have fabricated an 80m2 lightweight concrete slab, making it the world’s first full-scale architectural project to use 3D sand printing for its formwork.

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The NCCR Digital Fabrication Newsletter informs on the newest research findings, upcoming events and open positions in a quarterly cycle. © 2018 NCCR Digital Fabrication.

Images: KnitCandela: Juan Pablo Allegre; Concrete Slab: Michael Lyrenmann/ NCCR Digital Fabrication.

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