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Sasa Zivkovic

  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Dean's Fellow
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  • Architectural design
  • Architectural installations
  • Architectural practice
  • Architectural technology
  • Ecological practice
  • Incremental design
  • Material practice
  • Sustainability

Sasa Zivkovic is an associate professor at Cornell AAP, where he directs the Robotic Construction Laboratory (RCL), an interdisciplinary research group investigating robotic-based construction technology.

Zivkovic is a coprincipal of HANNAH, an experimental architecture practice based in Ithaca, New York. HANNAH’s research focuses on advancing traditional building construction techniques by implementing new technologies and processes of making, addressing subjects of construction, rapid urbanization, and mass customized housing design. In close collaboration with the high-tech building industry, HANNAH and RCL explore the implementation of construction techniques such as additive concrete manufacturing and robotic wood construction.

HANNAH’s RRRolling Stones project won the 2018 Folly/Function competition hosted by the Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park. In December 2018, HANNAH was named a Next Progressive by Architect magazine and recently completed a 3D-printed Guard House in Suzhou, China; a pro bono Modular Dental Clinic in Ladakh, India; and a 3D-printed Corbel Cabin in Ithaca, New York.

Sasa Zivkovic

Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural installations
  • Architectural practice
  • Architectural technology
  • Ecological practice
  • Incremental design
  • Material practice
  • Sustainability
  • Black and white photograph of an upright robotic machine sitting in a building with large square windows.
  • Outdoor sculpture constructed with pieces of large logs attached in a knot formation.
  • A gray concrete structure positioned among trees in a forest with a person wearing black and white clothing sitting on top of the structure.
  • Seven white geometric shapes, made of circles, stripes, waves, and other structural features, on a black background.
  • Closeup photograph of a wavy structure in the shape of an open flower.

Daedalus 3D Printer in the Robotic Construction Laboratory, Ithaca, NY. image / Jeremy Bilotti

Robotic Construction Laboratory, Log Knot (2018), Ithaca, NY. image / Jeremy Bilotti

HANNAH, Corbel Cabin, Ithaca, NY. image / Jeremy Bilotti

HANNAH, Additive Architectural Elements. image / Reuben Chen

HANNAH, Additive Architectural Elements. image / Reuben Chen

Publications

  • Cartesian Concrete Spiel: A Syntax of 3D Printing

    Zivkovic, Sasa, and Leslie Lok. Paper proceedings, 2018 ACSA Fall Conference: PLAY with the Rules, 97-102.

  • Sub-Additive 3D Printing of Optimized Double Curved Concrete Lattice Structures

    Battaglia, Christopher A., Martin F. Miller, and Sasa Zivkovic. Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art, and Design 2018, 242-55.

  • Open Source Factory: Democratizing Large-Scale Fabrication Systems

    Zivkovic, Sasa, and Christopher A. Battaglia. Paper proceedings, ACADIA 2017: Disciplines and Disruption, 660-69.

Classes

  • Media of Representation II

    ARCH 1502

  • B.Arch. Second Year Integrative Design Studio

    ARCH 2102

  • Option Studio: Robotic Wood Architectures

    ARCH 4101/4102/5101/5116/8913

  • Option Studio: Villa Additiva

    ARCH 4101/4102/5101/5116/8913

  • M.Arch. Core Studio I

    ARCH 5111

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Winner of Folly/Function Competition, Architectural League of New York

    “RRRolling Stones” by HANNAH
    2018

  • Next Progressives, Architect Magazine

    HANNAH
    2018

  • Rob|Arch Workshop Runner-Up

    “Sub-Additive 3D Printing of Optimized Double Curved Concrete Lattice Thin Shell Structures” by Sasa Zivkovic, Martin Fields Miller, and Christopher A. Battaglia
    2018

  • Rapid Response Fund Grant, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

    “Emergency Wood: Repurposing Cornell Ash Trees Infected by the Emerald Ash Borer for Sustainable and Smart Robotic Based Wood Construction” by Sara Zivkovic, Kifle Gebremedhin, and Peter Smallidge
    2018

  • Fellow, German National Academic Foundation

    Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
    2008–10

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • A New Robotic Brutalism: Additive Architectural Elements by HANNAH

    Invited solo exhibition, curated by Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mark Pasnik, Pinkcomma Gallery, Boston, MA, 2018.

  • Cobel Cabin by HANNAH

    Peer-reviewed group exhibition “ACADIA 2018: Re/calibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity,” Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 2018.

  • Digital Vernacular: Recent Work by HANNAH

    Invited group exhibition, curated by Jae K. Kim, International Union of Architects World Congress, COEX Convention Center, Seoul, 2017.

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