Material Systems
New materials for digital fabrication: bio-based, mineral and composite systems, glass and metal.
Topics
Grant
Architected Porosity
Patrick Bedarf, Anna Szabo
PhD
Digital Composites
Hyunchul Kwon
PhD
Digital Materiality of Glass for Architecture
Rena Giesecke
Other
Digital Metal: 3D Printing+ Casting Metal
Mania Aghaei Meibodi, Marirena Kladeftira, Thodoris Kyttas
PhD
MICROBIAL BIOCEMENT
Karen A. Antorveza Paez
Grant
Mycelium based composites
Tiziano Derme, Matthias Leschok
Projects
2025
Geological Microbial Formations
MICROBIAL BIOCEMENT
2023
Airlements
Architected Porosity
2023
Arzo - 3D Printing with waste from marble quarries
2021
FoamWork
Architected Porosity
2021
Beyond Transparency: Robotically Enhanced Glass Architecture
Digital Materiality of Glass for Architecture
2018
LevisErgon
Digital Composites
2017
Digital Metal: Deep Facade
Digital Metal: 3D Printing+ Casting Metal
2017
Digital Metal: Shaping Liquid Pavilion
Digital Metal: 3D Printing+ Casting Metal
2017
Electrical Skin
Digital Composites
People
With alumni →
Publications
All 20 →2024
Understanding the Role of Controlled Environments for Producing Mycelium-bound Composites: Advancing Circular Practices for Integrating Biotechnology into the Construction Industry
Tiziano Derme, Francis W. M. R. Schwarze, Benjamin Dillenburger. Global Challenges 8, no. 7 (2024): 2300197
2024
Digital Fabrication of Biologically Cemented Spatial Structures
Antorveza Paez K, Ling AS, Mahamaliyev N, Bauer G, Dillenburger B. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing 2024; doi: 10.1089/3dp.2023.0339
2023
Robotic 3D Printing of Geopolymer Foam for Lightweight and Insulating Building Elements
P. Bedarf, A. Szabo, M. Zanini, B. Dillenburger. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
2023
Airlements: A Lightweight and Insulating Monolithic Wall System made with Mineral Foam 3D Printing
P. Bedarf, E. Jeoffroy, B. Dillenburger. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
2023
Foamwork: Challenges and strategies in using mineral foam 3D printing for a lightweight composite concrete slab
P. Bedarf, A. Szabo, E. Scoccimarro, B. Dillenburger. International Journal of Architectural Computation
2023
Mineral composites: stay-in-place formwork for concrete using foam 3D printing
P. Bedarf, C. Calvo-Barentin, D.M. Schulte. Architecture, Structures, and Construction
2022
Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling up Architectural Applications of Mycelium-Based Materials with Digital Fabrication
Selina Bitting, Tiziano Derme, Juney Lee, Tom Van Mele, Benjamin Dillenburger, Philippe Block. Biomimetics 7, no. 2 (2022): 44
2022
3D Printed formwork for Mycelium Bound Composites
Matthias Leschok, Benjamin Dillenburger. Hybrids & Haecceities. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA