Latest rendering of the Digital Fabrication unit.
NEST, the modular research and innovation building by Empa and Eawag, is teeming with life. Since it opened its doors in May 2016, over 5,000 visitors have flocked to see the building. The first users have set up their offices, the first residents will soon be moving in and the next units in the pipeline are already taking shape. For the last few weeks, the NEST unit Meet2Create has been a hive of activity: the first permanent users of the office environment designed by Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture have moved into their offices; Vision Wood , a residential unit for students and the second unit to be installed, is ready for two residents to move in at the beginning of 2017 and the wood innovations developed by Empa and ETH Zurich to be field-tested; and construction work is about to get underway on the Solar Fitness & Wellness unit: the prefabrication of the system designed to run the entire wellness center on renewable energy is due to begin in early 2017, the official inauguration is scheduled for May 2017. The planning on other units is also in full swing: an east-facing home environment for two people is to be constructed on the second floor, where a consortium comprising Dirk E. Hebel's ETH Zurich chair, the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart and the Werner Sobek Group will tackle topics related to urban mining. Construction is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2017. Besides a supporting structure where the individual components can be recycled without losing any value when removed, the unit will use waste as a source of materials and utilize prototypical products with a view to exploring the potential of this material resource.
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