Hybrid Additive Manufacturing (2024-11)¶

Using digital tools our research at ITE investigates three core aspects of sustainable construction: reduce, reuse, and recycle. We aim to develop innovative computational design and fabrication methods to reduce material consumption, increase material efficiency, and minimize the environmental impact of the construction industry. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, many research projects have shown that purely additive manufacturing has reached its limits. For this reason, we are using the Digital Fabrication Laboratory (Fig 1) to investigate hybrid manufacturing methods that combine conventional methods with additive manufacturing or that combine additive with subtractive digital processing.