David Jenny

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer

Focus

Digital Technologies for Design and Fabrication

Projects

• Potential Wood Shingles – Automation and Prefabrication in Wooden Shingle Facades / Project leader / ongoing
• Open Platform for Circular Timber Joints / Deputy project leader / completed
• Play Clay – A living lab for sustainable construction in the city of Winterthur (Grüze) / Project leader / completed
• Sustainable Earth-Based Construction through Large-Scale 3D Printing / Project leader / completed
• earth to earth: ultra-thin formwork for in-situ (Cleancrete©) casting / Project leader / completed

Publications

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Jenny, D. (2024) 'Oriented dowels, spatial joint : speculations towards a digital building culture', in Ballestrem, M., Benjamin, K., and Blocksdorf, H. (eds) Constructive disobedience : an experimental methodology in architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 42–51. doi: 10.1515/9783035628302-005.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Jenny, D. et al. (2026) 'Earth-to-earth : ultra-thin 3D-printed clay formwork for in-situ earth-casting', in D'Erme, C., Paglia, C., and Giner Cordero, E. (eds). Cham: Springer, pp. 498–509. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-14170-5_49.
• Morales Zuniga, M. E. et al. (2025) 'Multidisciplinary insights into geometric and material performance : 3D printing unfired earth for sustainable construction', in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. IOP Publishing, p. 172002. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/17/172002.
• Jenny, D., Graser, K. and Baldini, L. (2023) '"rubber band" – a practical support tool for integrated and resource-efficient early design in construction', in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. IOP Publishing, p. 202002. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2600/20/202002.

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