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【Lecture 09.11.2022】 Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular
Release time：2022-11-09
ETH Zürich - Block Research Group
Lecture Series
Lecture 01: November 09 / 15:30-17:05 (Beijing time)
Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular
Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Lecture 02: November 16 / 15:30-17:05 (Beijing time)
Graphic Statics: white-box structural design
Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Lecture 03: November 23 / 15:30-17:05 (Beijing time)
COMPAS: open-source computation and collaboration
Dr. Tom Van Mele
Lecture 01
Disrupting Concrete Construction:
digital, sustainable and circular
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Professor, ITA, ETH Zurich
Head of the Block Research Group（BRG）
Director of the NCCR - Digital Fabrication
Zoom号：895 6402 9204 密码: 537599
Time:15:30-17:05, November 9
Location：Lecture Room D2, 5F, Building D, CAUP
Zoom ID：895 6402 9204 Password: 537599
Brief Introduction
Concrete does not want to be a beam, it wants to be an arch. Reintroducing arched geometry for the artificial stone, concrete, significantly reduces the amount of material needed, but also to build with lesser emitting materials. Recent developments in computational design and engineering and construction-scale digital fabrication now allow the introduction of concrete as an extremely sustainable solution for spanning structures such as floor “slabs” or footbridges. This talk will introduce how we can disrupt concrete construction: lightweight, low embodied emissions, using construction demolition waste, fire resistant, providing thermal mass, acoustically performant, dry-assembled prefab, so easily demountable and reusable or entirely and easily recyclable at the end of its life, available at scale and globally, and economically competitive. Sounds too good to be true?
Speaker Information
Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Professor, ITA, ETH Zurich
Head of the Block Research Group（BRG）
Director of the NCCR - Digital Fabrication
Dr. Philippe Block is professor at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zurich, where he leads the Block Research Group (BRG) with Dr. Tom Van Mele and is Head of the Institute. Philippe is also Director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) - Digital Fabrication. He studied architecture and structural engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his PhD in 2009.
