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Smart Slab

The pioneering construction method of the Smart Slab uses 3D-printed formwork for casting and spraying concrete in geometrically complex shapes. 3D printing overcomes the geometric limitations of traditional…

Concrete Canoe

What may sound like a contradiction in itself is the title of a bi-annual competition, happening in Cologne in 2017. This 16th edition attracted over 1’000 participating students…

Arch Tec Lab

Since its opening in 2016, Arch_Tec_Lab, the new home for the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) on the ETH Hönggerberg campus, has received a lot of press…

Gugelmann Galaxy

After a first version developed in processing and a second version adopted to Unity3D, programmed in C#, I finally found some time to have a look at Three.js….

Floating through an image galaxy – in VR

In addition to the Processing-visualisation presented as the final result of our Hackathon project, I developped a new mean of representation for the 2300+ images of the Gugelmann…

ASCII art with p5js

I recently stumbled upon what looks like quite a fundamental remake of processingjs.org, now called p5js.org. Since I made fPix and several other small projects with the former,…

Connecting the Dots

Schweizer Kleinmeister, Gugelmann CollectionThis is a sort of by-product of our Cultural Hackathon project. Some of the 2300+ works from the Gugelmann Collection had two or more authors…

Schweizer Kleinmeister: An Unexpected Journey

[metaslider id=430]This project is our contribution to the 1st Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, taking place on Friday, 27th and Saturday 28th of February 2015 at the Swiss National…

fPix-pixel-art

Try it now!I gave an old project of mine, developed back in 2007 when working at Raplab, a little brush-up. While the first version was a compiled jar…

A Genealogy of Science

I’m bad at remembering dates. Whenever the question comes up “did that guy knew the works of that other guy”, I had to pass. That’s why I decided…

Configurator for Fritz Haller’s System midi

I made up a series of videos showing the implementation of a configurator for the midi system by Fritz Haller. It is written in VectorScript, the built-in scripting…

Floater

Floater is a chaise longue designed by Manuel Kretzer (responsive design studio) and Mathias Bernhard at the Chair for CAAD, ETH Zurich and was produced in close collaboration…