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Porous Mass: Terra-Cotta Redefined Through Advanced Fabrication
Terra-Cotta Grotto prototype tests the bioclimatic conditioning and experiential qualities of a porous mass by digitally carving out walls from a stack of terra-cotta rain screen panels. The project explores engagement with ambient flows and ecological context through a heavy yet porous material assembly. This thick assembly uses the resilient and responsive properties of architectural ceramic materials and the hidden form of the ubiquitous unit of architectural terra-cotta rain screen panels to create an enclosing volume. Taking the traditional grotto as a bioclimatic model, this paper introduces two drivers for the project: the material properties derived from terra-cotta and the application of a CAMel plug-in interface for an OMAX waterjet as the technical facilitator for form making.
Porous Mass: Terra-Cotta Redefined Through Advanced Fabrication
Terra-Cotta Grotto prototype tests the bioclimatic conditioning and experiential qualities of a porous mass by digitally carving out walls from a stack of terra-cotta rain screen panels. The project explores engagement with ambient flows and ecological context through a heavy yet porous material assembly. This thick assembly uses the resilient and responsive properties of architectural ceramic materials and the hidden form of the ubiquitous unit of architectural terra-cotta rain screen panels to create an enclosing volume. Taking the traditional grotto as a bioclimatic model, this paper introduces two drivers for the project: the material properties derived from terra-cotta and the application of a CAMel plug-in interface for an OMAX waterjet as the technical facilitator for form making.
Porous Mass: Terra-Cotta Redefined Through Advanced Fabrication
Garófalo, Laura B. (author) / Guitart, Miguel (author) / Khan, Omar (author)
Technology|Architecture + Design ; 4 ; 232-241
2020-07-02
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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