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Turning ideas into successful and disruptive technologies is an extremely context-sensitive process. Place, time, resources, and parallel innovations in adjacent fields need to fall together to ignite innovation. This book portrays such a moment in time when Additive Manufacturing (AM) made the leap from the scale of product design to the dimension of entire buildings. Within a few years, AM matured from basic research to industrial applications in the Built Environment. The Built Environment – Additive Manufacturing (BE-AM) symposium, organized by the editors of this book, has been accompanying and moderating this process since 2015. The series of events did not only show the immense velocity of development, but it also revealed the vast amount of ingredients that need to be part of the recipe. This book seeks to shed light on those ingredients and how they together form novel technologies. While the presented projects in this book are witnesses of their time, they also form nodes within a larger network that spans over time, place, disciplines, technologies, and the demands of a broader socio-economical context. The time has come for AM to enter and disrupt the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction. This book aims at telling the stories and presenting the demonstrators, prototypes, and finally the projects that paved the road for an idea turning into a technology.

Thursday 27 October 6-8pm (SYDNEY) / 10-12 am (FRANKFURT/MAIN) Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery + Online

Computational methods for materializing architecture in motion

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Visit the BE-AM Exhibition from Nov 15 to 18 at Formnext 2022, Frankfurt/Main, and join us for the BE-AM Symposium on Nov 16 on site or digitally via livestream.

Dr. Nadja Gaudillière-Jami & Dipl. Des. Max Eschenbach Digital Design Unit, Technical University Darmstadt

As part of the Printsugi research project lead by DDU, Nadja Gaudillière-Jami and Max Eschenbach are showcasing the Rock Tower prototype at the Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney, as part of the SHE Robots: Tool, Toy & Companion exhibition, curated by Dr Dagmar Reinhardt, Dr Lian Loke, Dr Deborah Turnbull-Tillman (University of Sydney), from the 20th of October to the 10th of December 2022. They will be presenting the project and participating in a hybrid panel talk on the 27th of October 2022 at 10:00 (CET).

in the category Industrial and Product Design

Max Eschenbach is nominated by the German Design Council for the German Design Award 2023 – Newcomer in the category Industrial and Product Design based on his recent work. Jury sessions are currently taking place and we are looking forward to the results.

Marc Grellert – The future of memory

In this podcast, Marc Grellert talks about the creation of virtual reconstructions of destroyed buildings and what contribution these reconstructions make to the culture of remembrance.