Tiziano DERME

PhD researcher of Urban BioCycles Mycelium Digitalisation

Tiziano DERME is an architect interested in the relationship between architectural design, emergent materials, and biotechnologies within digital and robotic fabrication. His research focuses on Microbially mediated fabrication processes applied to the built environment. He is a Ph.D. researcher at the Chair for Digital Building Technologies (dbt), Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck, lecturer and tutor at several international graduate and postgraduate programs, amongst others at the University of Melbourne (MSD), The University of Tokyo. His research and work have been acknowledged with numerous grants and exhibited in various galleries, events, and institutions such as the Biennale of Venice, Seoul Biennale, Ars Electronica, Melbourne Triennale. Tiziano is the co-founder and director of MAEID Büro für Architektur und transmediale Kunst, a transdisciplinary design practice based in Vienna.

Research Interests

Applications of Biotechnologies into the build environment. Specifically, his research regards the development of novel Mycelium based bio-composites for large scale architectural applications

Publications

Bitting, S.; Derme, T.; Lee, J.;Van Mele, T.; Dillenburger, B.; Block,P. Challenges and Opportunities inScaling up Architectural Applicationsof Mycelium-Based Materials withDigital Fabrication. Biomimetics 2022,7, 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics7020044Academ
Derme, T. and Mitterberger, D, 2020. “Digital Soil: Robotically
3D-Printed Granular Bio-Composites.” International Journal of Architectural Computing 18 (2): 194–211.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1478077120924996.
Mitterberger, D., and Derme, T. .2019. “ Soil 3D Printing “ Combining
Robotic Binder-Jetting Processes with Organic Composites for Biodegradable Soil Structures”.
[ACADIA, 2019: UBIQUITY AND AUTONOMY. [ Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conferecen of the
Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, October 24 - 26, 2019 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX].
Forget, A., Derme, T., Mitterberger, D. et al. emergent matter. (2019). “Architecture
inspired paradigm for 3D bioprinting of vessel-like structures using extrudable carboxylated agaro
hydrogels “[2: 233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-019-00045-5Cells”]
Derme T., Mitterberger, D. Di Tanna U. 2016. “Growth Based Fabrication
Techniques for Bacterial Cellulose: Three-Dimensional Grown Membranes and Scaffolding
Design for Biological Polymers”. [ACADIA, 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and
Cognitive Machines [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer
Aided Design in Architecture,Michigan Taubman College].

Awards

Materials Alumni Award 2021

Education

BS in Architecture and Engineering at University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2009)
MSc in Architecture and Engineering at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid ETSAM (2012)
Visiting Researcher in Architecture at “ The University of Tokyo ( 2015)