Students created 3D-printed concrete choreography columns for dancers - Parametric Architecture

Dancers performed astir 3D-printed 2.7m gangly factual choreography columns created by maestro students from ETH Zurich with the enactment of NCCR DFAB; the show took spot astatine the Origen Festival successful the Swiss Alps.

“Concrete Choreography” installation took little than 2.5 hours to people by concern robotic arms.

Material and aboveground texture created computationally show the adaptability and tremendous aesthetic possibilities of 3D factual printing erstwhile utilized successful large-scale constructions.

The conception frames and informs the creation performances of Riom’s 2019 summertime play and demonstrates however exertion improvements whitethorn bring businesslike and innovative expressions to factual architecture.

According to Ph.D. researcher Ana Anton, 1 of the teaching squad astatine ETH Zurich’s Digital Building Technologies, “What makes our factual printing attack outstanding is that we code some worldly ratio and the aesthetic imaginable of this technology.”

ETH Zurich students are inactive moving connected antithetic 3d printing methods. Learn much astir ETH Zurich – Master of Advanced Studies successful Digital Fabrication and Architecture projects.

Project Info

MAS DFAB successful Architecture and Digital Fabrication | ETH Zurich
Teaching Team: Ana Anton, Patrick Bedarf, Angela Yoo (Digital Building Technologies), Timothy Wangler (Physical Chemistry of Building Materials)
Students: Antonio Barney, Aya Shaker Ali, Chaoyu Du, Eleni Skevaki, Jonas Van den Bulcke, Keerthana Udaykumar, Nicolas Feihl, Nik Eftekhar Olivo, Noor Khader, Rahul Girish, Sofia Michopoulou, Ying-Shiuan Chen, Yoana Taseva, Yuta Akizuki, Wenqian Yang
Origen Foundation: Giovanni Netzer, Irene Gazzillo, Guido Luzio, Flavia Kistler
Research Partners: Prof. Robert J. Flatt, Lex Reiter, Timothy Wangler  (Physical Chemistry of Building Materials, ETH Zurich)
Technical Support: Michael Lyrenmann, Philippe Fleischmann, Andreas Reusser, Heinz Richner, Tobias Hartmann