BE-AM, Franziska-Braun-Str. 3, Darmstadt (2026)

18/11/2025

Introducing our second Keynote Speaker: Manuel Jimenez Garcia (Nagami) will present in his talk "from waste to luxury" about the topic of how luxury brands are actively adopting recycled
materials into retail stores

At a time when the additive manufacturing industry is shifting from prototyping to
full-scale production, design and architecture are emerging as powerful laboratories
of innovation. Within this transformation, Nagami has become a reference — a company translating industrial intelligence into emotional experience, and redefining waste as the raw material of beauty.
Founded in 2016 in Spain, Nagami operates 21 industrial robotic arms, making it the largest large-scale 3D-printing platform in the global design and architecture sector. Its mission is to demonstrate that the same technologies used in aerospace or
automotive can also produce objects that resonate culturally and sensorially. In
other words: that manufacturing can be poetic — a form of cultural expression. The
company’s ethos is rooted in the belief that industrial production can serve society
not only functionally but also emotionally — transforming material waste into cultural
value.

design

17/11/2025

Introducing our last BE-AM 2025 speaker in the category industry:
Rob Henderson (etcetera) will present about design vision and application in 3D printing.

"We considered 3D printing and its unique material output equivalent to another
groundbreaking innovation that reshaped design in the mid-20th century: fiberglass. Charles and Ray Eames pioneered comfort with high-tech material in the postwar era. Today, 3D
printing is driving a similar revolution. With the Septa rocking chair, our goal was to achieve a
minimal, lightweight, and comfortable form while meeting the challenge of combining
elegance with industrial-scale 3D printing, known as Large Format Additive Manufacturing
(LFAM).
We studied successful rocking chairs and identified recurring essentials: seat angle, back tilt, and the radius of rails. As an extra feature, we designed Septa to rock in two directions and spin. Exploring forms within the logic of robotic 3D printing—continuous motion without
pause—meant rethinking both structure and infill. Infill, normally hidden and optimized by
software, became an integral visible element of our design. So, rather than letting algorithms
generate the interior, we designed the infill ourselves, giving the chair structural integrity and expressive character. Septa’s form and production emerges from two alternating curves, creating a continuous closed loop essential for robotic printing.
These challenges opened a close collaboration with Nagami and Differential. To achieve
something beyond standard production Nagami extended its processes. Together we are
finalizing colorways and production methods. Soon, Septa will be printed within a day, and
potentially twenty-one at a time, available both in serial production and as limited special
editions."

17/11/2025

Introducing our BE-AM 2025 speakers: Johannes Pfau & Florian Bienefeld (SSV
Architekten) will present insights into large-format 3D printing directly on the construction
site, illustrated through the project Wavehouse Heidelberg.
The Wavehouse represents Europe’s largest building constructed entirely on-site using 3D
concrete printing. Located within the redevelopment area of the former Campbell Barracks in
Heidelberg, the project explores the architectural, technological and ecological potentials of
additive manufacturing under real construction conditions. Conceived as a data center, the
Wavehouse combines a parametric design strategy with a fully digital fabrication workflow,
achieving material efficiency, structural precision and formal expressiveness. The project
provides key insights for the future integration of large-scale 3D printing into sustainable
building practice and urban transformation contexts.

17/11/2025

Introducing our BE-Am 2025 speakers in the category of Industry: Ute Bauermeister (GNS) and Jakob Feldmann (Additivum) will give insights of 3d printed insulation elements.
Indigestible cellulose fibers generated during biomass fermentation in biogas plants are typically regarded as an unavoidable byproduct and discarded. A collaborative project spanning materials engineering, manufacturing, architecture, and research has developed a novel treatment method to repurpose these fibers, whose quantities continue to grow with the ongoing transition away from fossil fuels.
The fibers are processed into a sustainable, fully compostable, and 3D-printable material suitable for large-scale additive manufacturing via an adapted clay-extrusion process. The resulting paste can be prepared and handled similar to clay and hardens in air. Due to its wood-like, porous structure, the material lends itself to applications such as sound-absorbing and insulating panels conventionally produced from sheet materials.
The additive manufacturing process enables the creation of unique, organic forms without offcut waste, offering both economic and ecological freedom in architectural design. The project examines every stage of the process chain—from optimizing the composition of fibers and binders for fast yet stable clay-like printing, to scaling up from laboratory testing to industrial AM production. A printing setup with a build volume exceeding four cubic meters has been developed, and the material pre-processing has been streamlined. Finally, the team is exploring parametric, stackable designs for high-performance custom insulation panels.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/magaverde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gns-halle/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/additivum/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ute-bauermeister/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-meier-98b96a346/

15/11/2025

Introducing our first speaker in the category of Industry: Volker Ruitinga (Vertico 3D), will give a lecture on 3D concrete printing.

The lecture presents the journey of 3D concrete printing from research to real-world application, focusing on Vertico’s role in developing and deploying 2K printing systems for architectural and structural use. It outlines key technological distinctions, practical challenges in scaling the process, and the importance of global material supply and applied research. Through projects ranging from planters and columns to facades, and research in color printing, clay, and geopolymers, Vertico highlights how the fusion of material science, robotic control, and digital design is redefining performance and creativity in concrete construction.

14/11/2025

Introducing our BE-AM 2025 speaker in the category young researchers: Aga Blonska (Aga Blonska Studio) will give a lecture on how CoWave’s Neurodesign Software translates brainwave reactions into hyper-personalised design through additive manufacturing.

The lecture presents CoWave, a project that links EEG-based neurodesign, AI, and additive manufacturing to create emotionally driven, sustainable design objects.By translating users’ brainwave reactions into 3D-generated forms, CoWave produces hyper-personalised artefacts that foster emotional attachment and reduce disposability. Demonstrated through custom 3D-printed acoustic panels made from recycled materials, the project shows how emotional resonance can drive sustainability — turning design into a process of personal connection, longevity, and environmental care.

14/11/2025

Introducing our second BE-AM 2025 speaker in the category young researchers: Stefanie Appelgrün (DDU TU Darmstadt) will give a lecture on additively manufactured acoustic absorbers made from clay.

This project investigates the potential of additively manufacturing acoustic absorbers from clay. The goal is to replace fossil-based sound absorbers by developing a mono-material, sustainable, and acoustically effective structure that does not require additional carrier materials or composites. Since clay inherently exhibits low sound absorption, the improvement of acoustic performance in this study was achieved primarily through the design of geometry rather than the material itself. The developed geometry is based on a growth algorithm that creates complex pore spaces in the inner structure. Methodologically, the approach is supported by computer-based simulations, impedance tube measurements, and reverberation chamber tests that confirm the prediction of the acoustic performance. The developed process chain demonstrates the potential of additively manufactured clay structures as a sustainable alternative to conventional acoustic solutions.

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11/11/2025

Introducing our next BE-AM 2025 speaker: Alexander Wolf (ISM+D TU Darmstadt) will give a lecture on nesting brick

This case study investigated the potential of additive manufacturing methods for creating bespoke ceramic building components. Although the exhibited custom brick-geometry resembles an already market-available product, Hagemeister GmbH's Nesting-Brick, the production technology used to create it treads new paths. By using a 3D-printer to shape these bespoke components, the predominant process, a fully manual and artisan modelling was bypassed, leading to increased efficiency in production.
Being part of a PhD-thesis, the developed methodology may also serve as a blueprint for the creation of a multitude of other articulate ceramic components, as it allows for great range of adaptions in terms of geometry and surface-finishing. Therefore, the shown exhibit does not only display the processes’ capability to replace shortage in skilled labor, but also gives a glimpse on the new freedom of form it is coming with. In particular, the targeted use of AM-shaped components could even usher in a new era of brick architecture, which would be characterized by digitally designed ornamentation.

10/11/2025

Introducing our third speaker in the category of Academia: Philipp Eversmann (Universität Kassel) will present on Growing with Robots: From Veneer Printing to Mycelium Manufacturing

This talk presents new approaches in biobased robotic fabrication, combining veneer 3D printing with mycelium-based growth. By integrating precise robotic control with living materials, we explore hybrid structures that are both manufactured and cultivated. The presentation highlights technical strategies, material innovation, and the potential of combining engineered and biological processes in sustainable fabrication.

10/11/2025

Introducing our two second speakers in the category of academia: Michael Herrmann (Bauhaus Universität Weimar) and Benjamin Spaeeth (TH Lübeck), who will give a lecture on Digital Building Culture – From Design to Printed Structure

Integrating design and build projects with research inquiry is a fundamental component of our architectural education framework. Our approach is inherently interdisciplinary and aims to establish a computational continuity from design conception to digital fabrication. The following two projects—Biopolymer Pavilion and Hexastone Pavilion—illustrate this pedagogical and research. Both projects serve as integrated teaching and research experiments, culminating in full-scale architectural demonstrators.

07/11/2025

Introducing our first speaker in the category of Academia: Florian Rist (TU Wien) will give an insight on a Flexible Mold for Customized 3D Printed Facade Panels.

The production of non-standard architectural panels is prone to material and cost inefficiencies, as it typically relies on single-use molds that are CNC milled from solid blocks of material. This lecture presents a novel computational fabrication solution for the production of customizable free-form panels, achieving high accuracy with minimal waste. The system relies on an efficient simulation-based optimization model and a flexible membrane that reconfigures its shape through controlled deflation and simple boundary adjustments, accommodating a wide range of single- and double-curvature target geometries. Even if the mold can support numerous fabrication methods, its accuracy is demonstrated by robotically 3D printing and manually casting a set of gypsum panels, as well as presenting a complex facade model featuring significant variations in Gaussian curvature.

06/11/2025

Introducing our first BE-AM 2025 keynote speakers: Benjamin Dillenburger (ETH Zürich) and Matthias Leschok (SAEKI) will give a keynote on Integrated 3D Concrete Printing for the White Tower

The construction industry faces a fundamental challenge: how to efficiently produce both unique architectural elements and a small series of repetitive components while maintaining high quality and controlling costs. This research presents a hybrid digital fabrication approach that strategically combines direct 3D concrete printing with cast concrete using 3D printed polymer formwork. Developed by Ana Anton and Benjamin Dillenburger at ETH Zurich, in collaboration with Matthias Leschok (SAEKI) and Ammar Mirjan (MESH), this methodology addresses the specific needs of prefabricated concrete construction, where components are often one-of-a-kind or repeated only in small batches within individual projects.

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