Mathias Bernhard

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Bernhard

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Mathias

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0000-0002-5128-4723

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09566 - Dillenburger, Benjamin / Dillenburger, Benjamin

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Powder-Based 3D Printing for Building Components
Jipa, Andrei; Bernhard, Mathias; Meibodi, Mania; et al. (2016)
Domain Transforms in Architecture
Bernhard, Mathias (2019)
Architecture is always a symbiosis of art and technology, of rational control and the creative loss thereof. Ever since information technology found its way into architectural practices through the advent of computers, its potential has been explored not only for solving well-formulated engineering problems faster but also for creative expression and assisting in the architectural design. This has given rise to a plethora of tools with various ideas and concepts, available ubiquitously to the sanguine architect. It has also led to the field of computer aided architectural design being a very heterogenous and convoluted field full of ambiguous terms and hail bringing promises. This thesis sets out to disentangle some of the confusion. More an orientation than an organization, it seeks to provide a map of the current computational design landscape. The theoretical first part constructs a series of five dualities around design, geometry representation and their related data structures. The dualities are topology and topography, parameter and grammar, classes and clusters, full and empty space and finally time and frequency domain. They are examined across different disciplines, not only architecture but also biology, mathematics, linguistics and information technology. These different viewpoints help in sharpening the profile of the terms by unveiling common denominators. The thesis shows that the parts in all these pairs are interdependent; they are just two sides of the same coin. The hypothesis is that being strict on one side allows being operational on the other, one side being invariant to some transformations, the other side to others. The notion of domain transform is borrowed to describe a shifting back and forth between the sides. The practical second part conjugates and combines the dualities from part one across a series of experiments in a broad range of topics, scales, frameworks, and materials. Exemplary cultural artefacts – 2D shapes, drawings, and paintings, 3D models – are encoded into and decoded back from different metric spaces. The domain of their representation is transformed into its domain of correspondence and back again. The goal is to explore the creative potential therein, to find what similarities can be measured and what range of flexibility or freedom of expression designers gain thereby.
Modeling the Field
Bernhard, Mathias; Hurkxkens, Ilmar (2021)
Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished
The Smart Takes from the Strong
Aghaei-Meibodi, Mania; Bernhard, Mathias; Jipa, Andrei; et al. (2017)
Fabricate 2017
The wider aim of this research is to explore the architectural potential of additive manufacturing (AM) for prefabricating large-scale building components. It investigates the use of AM for producing building components with highly detailed and complex geometry, reducing material use and facilitating the integration of technical infrastructure.In order to achieve this, the concept of stay-in-place 3D printed formwork is introduced. AM is employed to produce sandstone formworks for casting concrete in any shape, regardless of geometric complexity. This approach explores the synergy between the geometric flexibility of 3D printing sand formworks and the structural capacity of concrete. It allows the production of composite components with properties superior to either individual material.
Digital Concrete: Opportunities and Challenges
Wangler, Timothy; Lloret, Ena; Reiter, Lex; et al. (2017)
RILEM Technical Letters
Digital fabrication has been termed the “third industrial revolution” in recent years, and promises to revolutionize the construction industry with the potential of freeform architecture, less material waste, reduced construction costs, and increased worker safety. Digital fabrication techniques and cementitious materials have only intersected in a significant way within recent years. In this letter, we review the methods of digital fabrication with concrete, including 3D printing, under the encompassing term “digital concrete”, identifying major challenges for concrete technology within this field. We additionally provide an analysis of layered extrusion, the most popular digital fabrication technique in concrete technology, identifying the importance of hydration control in its implementation.
Smart Slab: Computational Design and Digital Fabrication of a Lightweight Concrete Slab
Aghaei Meibodi, Mania; Jipa, Andrei; Giesecke, Rena; et al. (2018)
Acadia 2018 Recalibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished
Bernhard, Mathias; Cupkova, Dana; Fahmi, Fujan; et al. (2021)
Robotic earthmoving equipment is dramatically changing the way landscapes can be formed and maintained. Landscapes evolve through constantly changing conditions, and a dynamic response to natural environments can never be considered final. Autonomous systems can enable this adaptive and continuous transformation of terrain instead of simply creating predefined and static earthworks. Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished opens up insights into landscape design’s evolving culture by proposing a new equilibrium between natural and mechanical forces. Reflecting on a series of design research experiments on granular materials at the department of architecture at ETH Zurich, this book is designed to demonstrate the importance of successive design iterations in framing, forming, and finding. Each page reveals computational procedures where functional terrain structures emerge, each capable of sustaining a dynamic landscape that is forever changing.
Languages of Geometry
Bernhard, Mathias (2024)
Scalable Disruptors
The history of computational design and CAD is often presented as inevitable and promoted as best fitting the designers’ needs. A seemingly logical progression from ruler and compass to current software environments glosses over the fact that the modes of expression are rather limited. I refer to the constructive concepts behind a geometric thought model and production system as a language. Languages differ in how they express ideas or what ideas can be expressed at all, depending on the vocabulary and grammar in place. I present a collection of 22 geometric languages, a Rosetta Form, so to speak. Each language is presented as a standardized interactive web application, saying the geometric equivalent of “Hello, World!” first but highlighting the differences between them by modifying one parameter. The languages are presented as descriptions, images of the app, examples of their architectural relevance, and as part of a genealogy, a network of interrelations to overarching concepts.
Design strategies for a 3D printed acoustic mirror
Kladeftira, Marirena; Pachi, Maria; Bernhard, Mathias; et al. (2019)
Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2019)
Large scale binder-jetting additive manufacturing has been available since almost a decade. While it offers great opportunities for the fabrication of complex ornate forms, so far, the potential of this printing method is not fully explored. Moreover, binder-jetted objects have never been tested for outdoor use and performance, because of the weak bond of the printed parts. This paper presents a design strategy that makes possible the fabrication of large, outdoor installations, with such a fragile material as printed sandstone. The presented process was developed for a full-scale installation of acoustic mirrors that was designed, manufactured and post processed in only a few steps. In the larger picture, this paper discusses how 3D printing can allow for design optimisation and reduction of material, while it proposes post-processing methods that strengthen and seal the printed objects for exterior use.
Diamanti: 3D-printed, post-tensioned concrete canopy
Akbarzadeh, Masoud; Chai, Hua; Zhi, Yefan; et al. (2024)
Fabricate ~ Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures

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