A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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All That Is Porous : Practicing Cross-Disciplinary Design Thinking
This chapter discusses the material systems commonly employed in the production of precast concrete elements. In particular, it presents an alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS), a material that is often used in moulding production for complex-shaped concrete elements. Although EPS plays an important role in the production of an energy-efficient built environment, the ecological implications of its growing global use, and inevitably growing waste, raise serious environmental concerns. Putting the industrial policies of EPS use under question, the author proposes the concept of an alternative ice-based material system for concrete manufacturing. This method provides a waste-free, closed-loop recycling manufacturing process. It enables the production of intricate and formally rich structural formations in concrete, for example mesoscale trabecular concrete structures – spatial material organisations that exceed the scale of concrete microstructures, but are much smaller than the design detailing of the concrete elements. Initially intended to merely eliminate production waste, ice-based concrete manufacturing is a relatively little-explored field in material organisation. This novel opportunity to produce reduced-weight concrete elements with differential local physical properties and expressive formal language is a welcome side-effect of stepping outside standard material practices. ; Part of book: ISBN 978-1-78735-502-6 QC 20201027
All That Is Porous : Practicing Cross-Disciplinary Design Thinking
This chapter discusses the material systems commonly employed in the production of precast concrete elements. In particular, it presents an alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS), a material that is often used in moulding production for complex-shaped concrete elements. Although EPS plays an important role in the production of an energy-efficient built environment, the ecological implications of its growing global use, and inevitably growing waste, raise serious environmental concerns. Putting the industrial policies of EPS use under question, the author proposes the concept of an alternative ice-based material system for concrete manufacturing. This method provides a waste-free, closed-loop recycling manufacturing process. It enables the production of intricate and formally rich structural formations in concrete, for example mesoscale trabecular concrete structures – spatial material organisations that exceed the scale of concrete microstructures, but are much smaller than the design detailing of the concrete elements. Initially intended to merely eliminate production waste, ice-based concrete manufacturing is a relatively little-explored field in material organisation. This novel opportunity to produce reduced-weight concrete elements with differential local physical properties and expressive formal language is a welcome side-effect of stepping outside standard material practices. ; Part of book: ISBN 978-1-78735-502-6 QC 20201027
All That Is Porous : Practicing Cross-Disciplinary Design Thinking
Sitnikov, Vasily (author)
2020-01-01
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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