DFAB House: Building Digitally, Living Digitally

ETH Zürich, Middle Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

3D printers, Concrete, Construction, Consumption, Digital design, Digital fabrication, Energy, House, Innovation, Photovoltaic panels, Project, Robotics, Smart tool, Sustainable, Switzerland, Technology, Zurich

Photography: Roman Keller, Tom Mundy and Andrei Jipa

DFAB HOUSE has officially opened on the NEST building of Empa and Eawag in Dübendorf. It is the world’s first inhabited “house” that was not only planned digitally but also – with the help of robots and 3D printers – built largely digitally. The construction technologies were developed by ETH Zurich researchers in collaboration with industrial partners.