top of page
IMG_4097_Kasia_Jackowska
IMG_0788
IMG_4168_Kasia_Jackowska
IMG_0762
IMG_0650
IMG_4213_Kasia_Jackowska
IMG_0703
IMG_4236_Kasia_Jackowska
0J1A3750
0J1A3757
0J1A3674
0J1A3847
0J1A3893
0J1A3739
IMG_0776
0J1A4371
IMG_3913
IMG_3909
IMG_3955
IMG_3907
IMG_3939
IMG_0004
IMG_0061
0J1A4441
0J1A4396
IMG_0153
IMG_0106
IMG_0156
MAS DFAB PAVILION

 

What are the most basic parameters that distinguish a house from a pavilion? An elevated floor and multi-layered construction. Both of these are regularly skipped when dealing with digital fabrication applied to architectural scale.

TYPE

MODE

STATUS

 

YEAR

PLACE

SIZE

MATERIALS

SOFTWARE

SETUP

 

ROLE

COLLABORATORS

STUDENTS INSTALLATION

STUDENTS PROTOTYPING

SUPPORT

 

DESCRIPTION

Pavilion with an upper floor and cladding, robotic process with integrated pre-fabrication and complex spatial assembly

Research and teaching project done at Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zürich

Built

 

2016

ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

8 m x 10 m x 6 m

Wood beams connected with screws, wooden shingles as cladding

Rhino, Python, Grasshopper, Robot Studio

2x ABB IRB 4600 on a common linear axis

 

Teaching lead

Philipp Eversmann (project lead), BLOCK Research Group, ETH Zürich, Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zürich

James Chenault, Alessandro Dell’Endice, Matthias Helmreich, Nicholas Hoban, Jesús Medina Ibanez, Pietro Odaglia, Federico Salvalaio, Stavroula Tsafou

James Chenault, Shiu Lun Cheung, Jorge Christie Remy-Maillet, José De Carvalho Paixao, Alessandro Dell’Endice, Larisa Gabor, Matthias Helmreich, Nicholas Hoban, Katrin Hochschuh, Wei Hsiao, Jesús Medina Ibanez, Ioannis Mirtsopoulos, Pietro Odaglia, Federico Salvalaio, Fabio Scotto, Stavroula Tsafou, Anastasia Zaytseva

NCCR Digital Fabrication, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

 

 

 

The Pavilion Project, developed by eight MAS students attending the one-year MAS DFAB programme, used digital methods and technologies to realize a unique two-story timber structure. Throughout the project, multiple prototypes were designed, fabricated, tested and refined, leading to a final project proposal. In order to fabricate the final proposal, a new robotic setup was developed and installed. In an automated process, the robot precisely pre-cut and assembled over 4,000 different elements into large component pieces which together created the walls, floors and enclosure. The final prefabricated elements are composed of three-dimensional spatial trusses autonomously clad with cedar shingles. The pavilion was then installed by assembling the individual prefabricated elements on-site. The project was realized in collaboration with Block Research Group (BRG) and the Chair of Sustainable Construction, both associated with the NCCR Digital Fabrication. The MAS programme is offered within the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zürich.

bottom of page