After Hernán Díaz Alonso’s introduction, Matthias Kohler discusses his work with Fabio Gramazio in their design firm, Gramazio Kohler Architects, and their research team based in the ETH. Kohler discusses projects including …
• The mTable interface, enabling users to customize a table design via mobile phone (2002)
• The Gantenbein Vineyard façade, Fläsch, Switzerland (2006)
• The Structural Oscillations installation at the 11th Venice Architectural Biennale (2007-8)
• The Sequential Roof for the Arch_Tec_Lab of the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zurich (2010-6)
• A robot-fabricated polyurethane foam panel
• Robot sand disposition used as a mold for concrete panels
• Experiments in stabilizing forms of unfused gravel aggregates, leading to a construction for the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and a rock print pavilion, Winterthur (2018)
• Walls assembled by shooting slugs of clay, leading to the Clay Rotunda, SE MusicLab, Bern (2020-1)
• A “Hydraulic Excavator for an Autonomous Purpose” (HEAP) building a dry stone wall of natural stone and demolition waste (2023)
• An augmented-reality bricklaying system for the construction of a winery façade in Kitrus, Greece (2019)
• The Caschlatsch modular, prefabricated wooden tower for a hiking path in Disentis/Mustér (2024)
• The Semiramis freestanding vertical garden, Zug, Switzerland (2022)