[VIDEO] Students Explore 3D Printing for Future Concrete Construction

Students produced nine concrete installations to demonstrate the potential of computational design and digital fabrication in future construction projects.

Jul 16, 2019
A collaboration between Digital Building Technologies and the Origen Festival in Riom, Switzerland, the installation Concrete Choreography consists of nine, individually designed,  2.7 m tall columns. Each column is concrete 3D printed at full height in 2.5 hours with the process developed at ETH Zurich, with the support of NCCR DFAB. Students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Digital Fabrication and Architecture explored the unique possibilities of layered extrusion printing, demonstrating the potential of computational design and digital fabrication for future concrete construction.
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