NAIL IT

As part of the seminar week of the professorships Digital Design & Fabrication (DDF) and Design of Structures (dos), KIT students developed a pavilion made of wood waste with the help of augmented reality. The result can be seen from today until Sunday at DAS FEST in Karlsruhe.

The construction industry is responsible for 37% of energy-related emissions worldwide. In Germany, it accounts for 90% of the consumption of mineral resources and is responsible for 50% of the waste generated. Part of this waste is packaging waste such as disposable and sorted out reusable pallets. This waste must be recycled within the framework of a circular construction industry. In addition, the sorting of components and building materials can simplify further use and recycling.

The pavilion "NAIL IT" is a construction made of recycled wood from Euro and disposable pallets. In total, the structure consists of 827 individual wooden parts that were geometrically recorded in a database. Through the use of computer-based design tools, these parts have been automatically assembled into 36 structural ribs in three dimensions. To create these individual ribs, augmented reality was used rather than floor plans and analog drawings. Thus, at the interface between physical and digital perception, the structure has been assembled in a paperless way. Wooden nails shot with compressed air were used to connect the wooden parts, ensuring a single-variety solution for coupling the elements.

During the seminar week in May 2023, 20 architecture students participated in the "NAIL IT" project. They gained insight into digital design and fabrication systems that enable circular, material-appropriate and -efficient architecture.

NAIL IT at DAS FEST
Günther-Klotz-Anlage, Karlsruhe
Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 July

DDF - Professorship Digital Design and Fabrication
The professorship Digital Design and Fabrication (DDF) researches computer-based design methods and digital fabrication processes for novel concepts for circular economy in construction. At the interface of research and teaching, circular digital building processes as well as innovative material and construction systems are prototypically developed on a 1:1 scale and tested in application-oriented demonstration projects. The interdisciplinary research of digital building technologies makes a relevant contribution to the challenges facing society as a whole and at the same time enables the development of an architectural design and construction repertoire based on these technologies.

Tenure-Track Prof. Moritz Dörstelmann, Daniel Fischer,
Fanny Kranz, Vincent Witt
https://ddf.ieb.kit.edu/

dos - Professorship Design of Structures
The work at the professorship Design of Structures (dos) focuses on the design of load-bearing structures and combines research on innovative materials and building systems, especially in the context of digital tools and computational technologies, to develop sustainable and resource-efficient solutions for civil engineering and architecture. The goal is to create integrative solutions for the building industry as well as to explore new structural concepts through design, prototyping and digital technologies.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Professor Riccardo La Magna, Tamara Haußer, Michael Kalkbrenner
https://dos.ieb.kit.edu/

Architecture students:
Deniz Aktürk, Julia Bakucz, Loreta Biba, Jeremias Bröning, Ligia-Maria Chitu, Philipp Coen, Esengül Demir, Anna Haase, Michael Hosch, Sophia Hausner, Aimée Issaka, Maja Jankov, Josephine Lichte, Finn Mayer, Sophia Merkle, lanur Sahin, Jonas Schückle, Isabel Schumm, Lara Sodomann, Anna-Lena Thessmann.