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Innovedum project 'Knowledge of Making', database Online Database www.materialarchiv.ch Material exhibition 'Photovoltaics and Insulation', autumn semester 2019, accompanying the design semester of the professorship Gigon Guyer on the topic "STOFFWECHSEL" zero-energy and zero-emission houses in the city Exhibition 'Wood Joints - Expression of Tectonic Culture', 2019 Exhibition of materials accompanying the first year course of the Chair of Deplazes Design and Construction I/II Exhibition 'marble architecture power – A construction material with a history', 2017. Exhibition Material Workshop 'Die keramische Fassade', Professur Spiro, 2016.
Exhibition 'Gneiss! Swiss stone in an architectural context', 2016. Book launch and exhibition 'Building from Waste', Professur Hebel, 2015.

The ETH Materials Hub (MATHUB) is the materials platform at ETH Zurich for research and teaching. 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 eight 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

  • Collaborative online platform with information on materials (a relaunch project is under way until the early summer of 2020 that involves an extensive overhaul of the entire offering, adapting it to the requirements of a research platform.)
  • 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. Three case studies, in teaching, the university workshops and a metal foundry, will commence in the autumn of 2019 within the framework of this project.
  • Examples of materials and sample uses from all relevant areas, e.g. clay, ceramics, glass, metal, stone, plaster, limestone, cement, bitumen, synthetics, wood etc.
  • These include both basic materials and processed or joined examples.
  • Samples from teaching and research

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

  • Extensive redesign and relaunch of the collaborative online materials database
  • Innovedum project “Knowledge-of-Making”
  • Focus on wood joints
  • Focus on innovative wood materials
  • Focus on solar materials (collaboration with the Chair Gigon Guyer& Schlüter)
  • Focus on insulating materials (collaboration with the Chair Gigon Guyer)
  • Focus on natural stone (collaboration with external page Natursteinverband Schweiz and the Georesources Switzerland Group)
  • Continuous expansion of the focus through new information on materials

Use / online presence

  • Online using the external page collaborative online platform
  • The information on the physical materials samples available can be accessed via the RFID system in the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library at the Hönggerberg campus and directly from the database via QR codes.
  • Materials samples can also be researched using the Search Portal of ETH Library.
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