PhD opening in 3D printed stone for heritage buildings — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
PhD opening in 3D printed stone for heritage buildings
100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
- PhD opening in 3D printed stone for heritage buildings
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken
Application process
- The Chair for Digital Building Technologies invites applications for a PhD position on the 3D printing of stone for the restoration of heritage buildings.
- The doctorate rests on two closely coupled lines of work: the development of a new powder-bed printing system with spatially graded material deposition, and its use to produce replacement parts for historic stone structures.
- This PhD is part of the collaborative ETH Grant project "Spatially graded 3D printing to elucidate contour scaling of building stones", and will be conducted in close exchange with a second doctoral researcher at the Chair for Physical Chemistry of Building Materials in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Project background
- Stone is among the oldest building materials, and among the least controllable: its properties are found in the quarry, not designed.
- Restoration exposes this limitation acutely.
- A replacement part must be compatible with the original and must enter a dialogue with a structure that has aged for centuries.
- With historic quarries largely exhausted, selecting and carving natural blocks falls short on every one of these counts.
- This project pursues a different premise: that the material properties of stone can become a design medium.
Additional details
- 100%, Zurich, fixed-term
- This PhD is part of the collaborative ETH Grant project "Spatially graded 3D printing to elucidate contour scaling of building stones", and will be conducted in close exchange with a second doctoral researcher at the Chair for Physical Chemistry of Building Materials in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Project background
- The capabilities established at the laboratory scale are intended to be transferred to the chair's architectural-scale printer, where graded deposition opens a new design space for façade systems.
- You will publish in leading venues, present at international conferences, and contribute to teaching through the supervision of semester and master's projects
Notes and original content
- This PhD is part of the collaborative ETH Grant project "Spatially graded 3D printing to elucidate contour scaling of building stones", and will be conducted in close exchange with a second doctoral researcher at the Chair for Physical Chemistry of Building Materials in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.
- Project background
- Job description
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