MSc1-2 Earth to Earth: ultra-thin formwork for in-situ casting. Winter school presentation

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Academy of Architecture

Start date: 30 November 2022 / 12:30

End date: 1 December 2022 / 13:00

MSc1-2 Earth to earth

Ena Lloret- Fritschi

 

Winter School presentation

David Jenny
Earth to earth

 

Wednesady 30 november 2022 12h30

Palazzo Canavée, room C0.64

 

 

The building processes of today`s architecture are amongst the most contaminating activities done by humans. How can architects and engineers help to change this? In this workshop, we introduce the topic of earthen construction enhanced with digital fabrication. Focusing on a real-world construction project, we aim to investigate the importance of the role of architects and engineers for helping to initiate the change towards a more sustainable future.

The Winter school at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio is set-up as an interdisciplinary collaboration with ZHAW Zentrum Bautechnologie und Prozesse and selected industry partners.

We will focus on designing, planning and constructing a fully functional exterior staircase made of earthen materials. This entails the design of an ultra-thin formwork such as a 3D-printed earthen structure and casting of the staircase using a special earth-based concrete (e.g., Cleancrete© by the ETH spin-off Oxara). This staircase will be an investigation into and a prototype for a novel typology of structure serving as a statement for the systemic change that is urgently needed in our built environment

 

February, 2023.
Monday 6th to Saturday 11th of February 2023

Students admitted
Max. 16

Official Language
English

Tutors

  • Ena Lloret-Fritschi, Assistant Professor, FMAA, 
  • Fabrication and Material Aware Architecture 
  • David Jenny, Senior Research Associate ZHAW 
  • Zentrum Bautechnologie und Prozesse
  • Selen Ercan Jenny, Post Doc FMAA
  • Chen Fen Yen Chan, Research Assistant FMAA
  • Industry collaboration 
  • Gnanli Landrou, CEO Oxara 
  • Thibault Demoulin, CTO Oxara 
     

This will be a workshop “facultative”, 2.5 ECTS with a duration of one week
Presentation of Earth to Earth Winter Workshop by David Jenny
30. November