Ena Lloret-Fritschi is an architect with an interest in shaping concrete without the need for traditional formwork. She is currently a PostDoctoral researcher in a bridge position between the Chair of Gramazio Kohler Research and the Chair of Physical Building Chemistry of Prof. Robert Flatt. Her work is embedded in the research strand Mouldless Shaping with concrete within the DFAB or the NCCR, ETH, where she guides PhD students and coordinates projects.
Ena successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on Smart Dynamic Casting: A Digital fabrication method for concrete structures on June 16, 2016. In 2012 Smart Dynamic Casting received the Concrete Innovation Award at the Concrete Innovation Conference in Oslo and was amongst the 5 finalist for the SPARK award at the ETH Zurich.
Publications
- Design, fabrication, and testing of an optimised reinforced concrete floor slab fabricated with robotically 3D printed formwork (2022)
- Robotic Plaster Spraying: Crafting Surfaces with Adaptive Thin-Layer Printing (2022)
- Digital Fabrication with Cement-Based Materials: Process Classification and Case Studies (2022)
- Towards efficient concrete structures with ultra-thin 3D printed formwork: exploring reinforcement strategies and optimisation (2022)
- Depth-camera-based rebar detection and digital reconstruction for robotic concrete spraying (2021)
- Material-informed Formwork Geometry (2021)
- Eggshell (2021)
- Crafting plaster through continuous mobile robotic fabrication on‑site (2020)
- From Smart Dynamic Casting to a growing family of Digital Casting Systems (2020)
- Mastering yield stress evolution and formwork friction for smart dynamic casting (2020)
- DFAB House: A comprehensive demonstrator of digital fabrication in architecture (2020)
- Eggshell: Ultra-Thin Three-Dimensional Printed Formwork for Concrete Structures (2020)
- ACDC: The Admixture Controlled Digital Casting and its Application to Thin Folded Concrete Structures (2020)
- Design and Fabrication of a Non-standard, Structural Concrete Column Using Eggshell: Ultra-Thin, 3D Printed Formwork (2020)
- Aligned Interlayer Fibre Reinforcement and Post-tensioning as a Reinforcement Strategy for Digital Fabrication (2020)
- Residence Time Distributions in Continuous Processing of Concrete (2020)
- Processing of Set on Demand Solutions for Digital Fabrication in Architecture (2020)
- Mastering Yield Stress Evolution and Formwork Friction for Smart Dynamic Casting (2020)
- Revisiting Folded Forms with Digital Fabrication (2019)
- Robotic AeroCrete – A novel robotic spraying and surface treatment technology for the production of slender reinforced concrete elements (2019)
- Challenges of Real-Scale Production with Smart Dynamic Casting (2018)
- Adapting Smart Dynamic Casting to Thin Folded Geometries (2018)
- Smart Dynamic Casting (2017)