Daniela Mitterberger

ETH Zurich | ETH Zürich · Department of Architecture

Augmented bricklaying explores the manual construction of intricate brickwork through visual augmentation, and applies and validates the concept in a real-scale building project—a fair-faced brickwork facade for a winery in Greece. As shown in previous research, robotic systems have proven to be very suitable to achieve various differentiated brick...

This paper presents Interactive Robotic Plastering (IRoP), a system enabling designers and skilled workers to engage intuitively with an in-situ robotic plastering process. The research combines three elements: interactive design tools, an augmented reality interface, and a robotic spraying system. Plastering is a complex process relying on tacit k...

Most augmented and virtual applications in architecture, engineering, and construction focus on structured and predictable manual activities and routine cases of information exchange such as quality assurance or design review systems. However, collaborative design activities such as negotiation, task specification, and interaction are not yet suffi...

How can we trigger the process of digital embodiment and corporeality in human-robot collaboration through extended reality and digitally enhanced environments?

In recent years, research in computational design and robotic fabrication in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) has made remarkable advances in automating construction processes, both in prefabrication and in-situ fabrication. However, little research has been done on how to leverage human-in-the-loop processes for large-scale roboti...

Degrees of Life is a responsive environment exhibited in February 2022 at Zentrum Fokus Forschung in Vienna. The project explored the interaction between humans and living systems at an architectural scale. The research aims to develop interactive environments within an architectural space that learn, grow, and decay in relation to human presence a...

This paper describes the 1:1 scale application of Robotic Plaster Spraying ( RPS ), a novel, adaptive thin-layer printing technique, using cementitious base coat plaster, realized in a construction setting. In this technique, the print layers are vertical unlike most 3DCP processes. The goal is to explore the applicability and scalability of this s...

Co-Corporeality is based on the hypothesis of understanding the built environment as a biological entity that opens a space of coexistence and interaction between humans and microbial life. Based on design-led research, it explores how we can develop environments for a multispecies world. The focus is on the agency of both human and non-human actor...

The term chronotope is derived from two Greek words, khrónos (time) and topos (space). In literary theory, chronotope describes how different combinations of time and space are represented in language and discourse. Applied to design, it specifies the influence that a unique place and time can have on architecture and its domain of relations and vi...

In digital design-to-fabrication workflows in architecture, in which digitally controlled machines perform complex fabrication tasks, all design decisions are typically made before production. In such processes, the formal definition of the final shape is explicitly inscribed into the design model by means of corresponding step-by-step machine inst...

The arrival of the notion of "Hyper-Communication" and its associated "Transparency Society" reveals a new media condition: an informational framework charac­terized by being carnal, recursive, omnipresent, immediate, intimate, and exact. This optimized and embodied gaze constructs a pervasive communicative scenario that differs from the predigital...

In digital design-to-fabrication workflows in architecture, in which digitally controlled machines perform complex fabrication tasks, all design decisions are typically made before production. In such processes, the formal definition of the final shape is explicitly inscribed into the design model by means of corresponding step-by-step machine inst...

This text tries to reverse the direction of the question posed in the title. Instead of enlarging the picture, we will dissolve systematically, and on different scales, our fragile idea of the “human body”, the false truth of separated entities and our concept of an independent subject. Biological evolution, in comparison to the technological evolu...

Organic granular materials offer a valid alternative for non-biodegradable composites widely adopted in building construction and digital fabrication. Despite the need to find alternatives to fuel-based solutions, current material research in architecture mostly supports strategies that favour predictable, durable and homogeneous solutions. Materia...

Despite, the innovation of additive manufacturing (AM) technology, and in spite of the existence of natural bio-materials offering notable mechanical properties, materials used for AM are not necessarily more sustainable than materials used in traditional manufacturing. Furthermore, potential material savings may be partially overshadowed by the re...

3D bioprinting as a process has enabled the creation of complex structures laden with biological information including cells that is not realizable with conventional manufacturing techniques. Within this new manufacturing process, design strategies and design tools have to be adapted to deliver its full potential. In architecture, parametric design...

Self-assembling manufacturing for natural polymers is still in its infancy, despite the urgent need for alternatives to fuel-based products. Non-fuel based products, specifically bio-polymers, possess exceptional mechanical properties and biodegradability. Bacterial cellulose has proven to be a remarkably versatile bio-polymer, gaining attention in...