Matthias Kohler: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2017

NameHerr Prof. Matthias Kohler
LehrgebietArchitektur und Digitale Fabrikation
Adresse
Architektur & Digitale Fabrikation
ETH Zürich, HIB E 42
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1
8093 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-Mailkohler@arch.ethz.ch
DepartementArchitektur
BeziehungOrdentlicher Professor

NummerTitelECTSUmfangDozierende
051-1225-17LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Digital Fabrication (F.Gramazio/M.Kohler) Information Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen 3 KP2UF. Gramazio, M. Kohler
KurzbeschreibungThe Integrated Discipline deals with the interrelation between material and algorithmic design. The direct control of production data opens up new possibilities for design strategies that are exempt from the limitations of standard CAD software. The Integration of process, function and design allows for a new approach to the production of architecture.
LernzielData and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data. Material is thus enriched by information; material becomes “informed.” In the future, architects’ ideas will permeate the fabrication process in its entirety. This new situation transforms the possibilities and thus the professional scope of the architect.
InhaltWe use the term digital materiality to describe an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. The synthesis of two seemingly distinct worlds – the digital and the material – generates new, self-evident realities. Data and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data. Material is thus enriched by information; material becomes “informed.” In the future, architects’ ideas will permeate the fabrication process in its entirety. This new situation transforms the possibilities and thus the professional scope of the architect.
063-0621-17LArchitecture and Digital Fabrication (Thesis Elective) Information
Enrollment only for Master students of the 2011 curriculum!
6 KP11AF. Gramazio, M. Kohler
KurzbeschreibungAdvance in technology revolutionizes design and fabrication processes within architecture. Digital fabrication allows immediate production from design data. The architect as author of these data takes a key role in this development.
This course focuses on strategies for architectural production by means of algorithmic design tools and computer controlled fabrication methods.
LernzielThe goal of the „Wahlfacharbeit“ is the in depth analysis of a topic in the field of digital design and fabrication. The students should develop a personal, algorithmic design system till fabrication. A theoretic placement of the work within the current research discourse is desirable.
InhaltWe use the term digital materiality to describe an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. The synthesis of two seemingly distinct worlds – the digital and the material – generates new, self-evident realities. Data and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data. Material is thus enriched by information; material becomes “informed.” In the future, architects’ ideas will permeate the fabrication process in its entirety. This new situation transforms the possibilities and thus the professional scope of the architect.
SkriptThe script is provided by the teaching chair and can be purchased the day the elective course starts.
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesThe elective thesis HS15 will be held as part of the current edition of the Swisspearl® Summerschool, 31.08. to 11.09.2015, thus on site, in the Eternit production facilities in Payerne! Everybody can participate in the Summerschool, enrolment details will be given within due time on the chair's webpage.
069-0001-00LDigital Foundations Information Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen
Nur für MAS in Architecture and Digital Fabrication.
17 KP24GB. Dillenburger, F. Gramazio, M. Kohler
KurzbeschreibungDigital Foundations introduces students to information technology in architecture, to computational design and how robotic fabrication processes as well as 3D printing technologies are used to translate the computational design models into physical objects and building components.
LernzielStudents learn basic programming paradigms such as control structures and object oriented programming, the foundations of computational geometry and explore generative form-finding. Using Python as a main programming language within the frameworks of Processing, Rhino and Grasshopper, students learn to translate design thinking into computational algorithms. Furthermore, students learn about data preparation and toolpath creation for 3D printing (predominantly binder jet-printing and fused-deposition-modelling), and familiarise themselves with various mechatronic setups, materials and control-strategies of additive manufacturing.
Students are taught the basic principles of working with industrial robotic arms in the field of architecture. Students practice different concepts of robotic control, which enables them to execute basic routines. They are able to write their own programmes and directly control the robotic set-up using UR-Script and custom Python modules. Through multiple exercises, students learn how to design and robotically build small-scale spatial structures exhibiting the potential of robotic fabrication processes. Additionally, they employ simple feedback loops for improving the accuracy of the fabrication process and as design-drivers.