Additive Manufacturing in Construction
AMC TRR 277

Location: San José State University

Prof. Virginia San Fratello AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW

Virginia San Fratello is an architect, artist, and educator. She is Chair of The Department of Design at San José State University in Silicon Valley. San Fratello is a winner of the United States National Design Award for Digital Design, an International Interior Design Educator of the Year Award, and is also a winner of the Metropolis Magazine Next Gen Design Competition. Her creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York, and in 2021, they were awarded the Beazley Design of the Year. San Fratello is the co-author of Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing, a book that reexamines the building process from the bottom up and offers illuminating case studies for 3D printing with materials like chardonnay grape skins, salt, earth, and sawdust. She is a partner in Emerging Objects, a creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, and a co-founder of Forust, a start-up focused on wood waste and additive manufacturing. Her work is recognized by several institutions, including The National Building Museum, the Bellevue Museum, For Freedoms, and is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai, LACMA, and the Design Museum in London. San Fratello will serve as a role model and mentor for AMC researchers and students across partner institutions and will be engaged in a collaborative exchange that aims to bring state-of-the-art mobile robotic systems together with earthen spray and traditional wattle-and-daub construction methods to explore new paradigms in earth-centered construction. Her expertise in bridging traditional material practices with digital fabrication presents a unique opportunity to position this project at the intersection of architectural innovation, sustainability, and material research.
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