【Lecture 09.11.2022】 Disrupting Concrete Construction: digital, sustainable and circular
Release time:2022-11-09
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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

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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. 



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