Hollow-Crete

Tessmann, Oliver; Mehdizadeh, Samim

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29829-6_37

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“…Adaptive concrete grid joints can also be produced using other techniques, such as rotational molding. 17 However, such products lack the solid, rebar-reinforced casting strength of the joints that are produced by Flexi-node. Another alternative is the use of fully mechanical joints with rigid hinged parts, generally produced out of steel, such as Wachsman’s universal joint.…”

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“…16 Another use of flexible formworks, called “Rotoform,” was developed by the Digital Design Unit at the University of Darmstadt, Germany. 17 This technique combined flexible formworks with a rotational molding technique to produce nodal joints. A specially formulated concrete mix was poured into the latex formwork, which was then gently rotated until a thin layer of concrete hardened into the desired configuration.…”

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Reconfigurable molds and a fabrication-aware design tool for manufacturing concrete grid structures

Baghi¹,

Kalantari

Baghi

2021

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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The design and manufacturing of concrete elements need to be reconsidered in light of current trends in architectural geometry. Today, there is a movement toward greater customization and adaptability of concrete elements using “reconfigurable formworks” and “additive manufacturing.” Our study approached the issue of fabricating non-standardized concrete elements from the perspective of a “reconfigurable fabrication platform.” Specifically, we developed a method of fabricating geometrically diverse concrete joints by combining flexible pressure-enduring tubes with a rigid mechanism, resulting in an adaptive concrete-casting machine. This platform, which we named “Flexi-node,” can be used in conjunction with a relevant fabrication-aware digital design tool. Users can computationally design and fabricate a great variety of concrete joints using just one mold, with a minimum of material waste and with no distortion from hydrostatic pressure as would typically occur in a fully flexible formwork.

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Reconfigurable molds and a fabrication-aware design tool for manufacturing concrete grid structures

Baghi¹,

Kalantari

Baghi

2021

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Mehdizadeh

Zimmermann²,

Tessmann³

2022

Towards Radical Regeneration

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Animate Concrete: Materialization of Concrete Element Kinetic Assemblies

Mehdizadeh,

Tessmann

2024

Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication

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Animate Concrete informs building elements for motion and future reuse. This paper gives technical insight into strategies to reconfigure building systems with lightweight and movable concrete elements. Animate Concrete asks, what if architecture becomes an ever-changing system built with lightweight but heavy-looking elements that can move, assemble and disassemble through a gentle human touch? This vision allows for a versatile space, adaptation, and reconfigurability. Animate Concrete furthermore seeks to provide novel strategies to minimize material consumption for building elements by rotoforming thereby significantly reducing the weight of robotically precast concrete elements.

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Hollow-Crete

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Reconfigurable molds and a fabrication-aware design tool for manufacturing concrete grid structures

Reconfigurable molds and a fabrication-aware design tool for manufacturing concrete grid structures

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Animate Concrete: Materialization of Concrete Element Kinetic Assemblies

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