ETH Materials Hub

The ETH Materials Hub (MATHUB) is the materials platform at ETH Zurich for teaching and research . This collaborative project between the Department of Architecture and ETH Library currently focuses on information and materials samples from the field of the built environment. Alongside the collaborative external page online materials database, in which ten other Swiss organisations participate, the ETH Materials Hub together with all of the media offerings of the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library, i.e. materials samples, technical literature, journals, films and other database offerings, comprise a comprehensive information repository on the subject of materials and the built environment.


Offering of the ETH Materials Hub

  • external page Collaborative online materials database
  • Examples of materials and sample uses from wood, concrete, stone, clay, ceramics, glass, metal, plaster, limestone, bitumen, synthetics as well as plant-based building and construction materials and samples from the field of photovoltaics. These include both basic materials and processed or joined examples.
  • Samples from teaching and research
  • Information and documentation tool (beta version available on request). As part of the Innovedum project “Knowledge-of-Making”, a documentation and communication platform for production, processing and planning processes is being developed together with teaching and research. Two case studies are running in teaching, the university workshops and a metal foundry

Relevance for research and the general public

The ETH Materials Hub sees itself as a communicative knowledge platform that combines specialist knowledge from research and practice and makes the knowledge available for teaching and research. Production and processing processes are documented, discussed and documented for further use. This information can also be accessed by the general public.

Current activities, projects

Use / online presence


Contact

Architecture and Civil Engineering Library
  • +41 44 633 28 28

ETH Zurich
ETH Materials Hub
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
8093 Zurich

Head

Dipl. Ing. Markus Joachim

Staff

Dr. phil. Katja Burzer
MSc ETH Arch Anthony Haag
Dipl. Ing. Udo Thönnissen

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