David Jenny
David Jenny
ZHAW
School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering
Abteilung F&E, WB, DL
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 / ongoing
- Sustainable Earth-Based Construction through Large-Scale 3D Printing / Project leader / ongoing
- Play Clay – A living lab for sustainable construction in the city of Winterthur (Grüze) / 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 M. Ballestrem, K. Benjamin, & H. Blocksdorf (Eds.), Constructive disobedience : an experimental methodology in architecture (pp. 42–51). Birkhäuser. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035628302-005
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Jenny, D., Cutajar, S., Chan, Y.-F., Jenny, S. E., & Lloret‐Fritschi, E. (2026). Earth-to-earth : ultra-thin 3D-printed clay formwork for in-situ earth-casting (C. D’Erme, C. Paglia, & E. Giner Cordero, Eds.; Vol. 2, pp. 498–509) [Conference paper]. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-14170-5_49
- Morales Zuniga, M. E., Yavaribajestani, Y., Walk, M., Fischli-Boson, P., & Jenny, D. (2025). Multidisciplinary insights into geometric and material performance : 3D printing unfired earth for sustainable construction [Conference paper]. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 3140(17), 172002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3140/17/172002
- Jenny, D., Graser, K., & Baldini, L. (2023). “rubber band” – a practical support tool for integrated and resource-efficient early design in construction [Conference paper]. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2600(20), 202002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2600/20/202002