Gantenbein Vineyard
Fläsch (Switzerland), 2006
Non-Standardised Brick Façade
The project was realised as an extension of a small but remarkably successful vineyard.
The wine producers wanted a new service building, consisting of a large fermentation room for processing grapes, a cellar dug into the ground for storing the wine barrels, and a roof terrace for wine tastings and receptions.
The initial design proposed a simple concrete skeleton filled with bricks: The masonry acts as a temperature buffer, as well filtering the sunlight for the fermentation room behind it.
The bricks are offset so that daylight penetrates the hall through the gaps between the bricks. Direct sunlight, which would have a detrimental effect on the fermentation, is however excluded.
The robotic production method that we developed at the ETH enabled us to lay each one of the 20,000 bricks precisely according to programmed parameters—at the desired angle and at the exact prescribed intervals.
According to the angle at which they are set, the individual bricks each reflect light differently and thus take on different degrees of lightness.
Similar to pixels on a computer screen they add up to a distinctive image and thus communicate the identity of the vineyard.
The wall elements were manufactured as a pilot project in our research facilities at the ETH Zurich, transported by lorry to the construction site, and installed using a crane.
As the robot could be driven directly by the design data, without our having to produce additional implementation drawings, we were able to work on the design of the façade up to the very last minute before starting production.
All Images and Text from Digital Fabrication
Fläsch (Switzerland), 2006
Non-Standardised Brick Façade
The project was realised as an extension of a small but remarkably successful vineyard.
The wine producers wanted a new service building, consisting of a large fermentation room for processing grapes, a cellar dug into the ground for storing the wine barrels, and a roof terrace for wine tastings and receptions.
The initial design proposed a simple concrete skeleton filled with bricks: The masonry acts as a temperature buffer, as well filtering the sunlight for the fermentation room behind it.
The bricks are offset so that daylight penetrates the hall through the gaps between the bricks. Direct sunlight, which would have a detrimental effect on the fermentation, is however excluded.
The robotic production method that we developed at the ETH enabled us to lay each one of the 20,000 bricks precisely according to programmed parameters—at the desired angle and at the exact prescribed intervals.
According to the angle at which they are set, the individual bricks each reflect light differently and thus take on different degrees of lightness.
Similar to pixels on a computer screen they add up to a distinctive image and thus communicate the identity of the vineyard.
The wall elements were manufactured as a pilot project in our research facilities at the ETH Zurich, transported by lorry to the construction site, and installed using a crane.
As the robot could be driven directly by the design data, without our having to produce additional implementation drawings, we were able to work on the design of the façade up to the very last minute before starting production.
All Images and Text from Digital Fabrication
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