DFAB HOUSE

Join us for deep conversation focused on the issues raised by the exhibition, How to Build a House: Architectural Research in the Digital Age. The exhibition focuses on the DFAB House and the work of Gramazio Kohler Research with Digital Building Technologies at Swiss university ETH Zurich.

The exhibition examines the digital transformation of architecture and construction. It reveals the conception and making of the DFAB HOUSE: A three-story experimental building demonstrating pioneering research in computational design and digital fabrication conducted by architects in collaboration with leading experts in fields ranging from robotics to material science.

Through the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication (NCCR-DFAB), they jointly created the first fully inhabitable building constructed by robots from the labs of ETH Zurich; a building that moves the boundaries of what robotics and 3D printing in architecture can do today. The exhibit is an entry point into understanding the digital as a novel domain for architects to draw from at each step of the design, fabrication, and assembly of a building.

The exhibition, curated by Hannes Mayer and Sarah Schneider, presents a comprehensive insight into the architectural research of the DFAB HOUSE through prototypes, photography, videos, and a VR installation. Come and explore. Matthias Kohler, Benjamin Dillenburger will discuss topics relevant to their practice.