The Virtual Design Studio "Multiplying Time" is an international collaboration of several academic institutions across three time zones: Hong Kong University, ETH Zurich, University of Washington, Seattle, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, TU Delft, Bauhaus Universität Weimar.

The collaboration happens according to the principle developed for phase(x): all works in all phases are placed in a common database, available to all participants. In the following phase, the projects can be developed further by a different author. What's particular about the VDS-courses is the very condensed timeframe of merely five days in which they took place. Due to the distribution of the partners around the globe, the projects were worked on 3 x 8 hours = 24 hours a day.

The ETH Group contributed the website with the database environment and the modeling program Sculptor, which was used on all sides, to the collaboration. Sculptor is being developed by David Kurmann at the chair for Architecture and CAAD.

Team: ETHZ: Prof. Gerhard Schmitt, Fabio Gramazio, David Kurmann, Urs Hirschberg, Eric van der Mark; HKU: Prof. Branko Kolarevic, Marc Aurel Schnabel; UW: Prof. Brian Johnson; UBC: Prof. Jerzy Wojtowicz; Uni Weimar: Prof. Dirk Donath, Ernst Kruijff