Gramazio Kohler <br/><br/>
Clay Rotunda:   Sustainable Zero-waste Building with Computational Design Techniques 

 -  urbanNext,  November 25, 2021. 
 - 832 words.  
<br/><br/> Contributors, Densities, Designing Matter, ETH Zürich, Formats, Gramazio Kohler, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Topics. 
<br/><br/>Bern, Building Technology, Clay, Computation, Construction, Consumption, Design strategies, Design-based research, Engineering, Geometry, Knowledge, Natural materials, Optimized construction, Project, Research, Robotics, Sustainability, Sustainable, Switzerland, Tradition, Zero-waste<br/> 
<br/><br/> The Clay Rotunda is a free-standing earth-based cylindrical structure constituting the outer, soundproof shell of the SE MusicLab, a high-fidelity music auditorium built inside the newly refurbished Gurten Brewery in Bern. The cylindrical structure combines clay, a sustainable zero-waste building material, with computational design techniques. Featuring a diameter of almost 11 meters the structure reaches a height of 5 meters with just 15 cm of unreinforced clay. It was built in-situ by a mobile robotic system that aggregated over 30,000 soft clay bricks over a period of 50 days. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>2575-5374 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Robotics Consumption Low density Technology and fabrication Building Technology, Bern, Switzerland Switzerland