Skin Cut Construction: Danish Experiments in Concrete

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Abstract

The use of digital fabrication tools opens up a new approach to materials in an architectural context. The knowledge and intentions of designs and drawings can become informed and specialised through the understanding of the fabrication processes and their interface with materials.

Architects can utilise the connection between digital drawing information and digital fabrication to engage directly with materials. Direct intervention with and continuous feedback from materials allow architects to explore them in new ways in relation to architectural production. New material possibilities create a foundation for the discovery of new aesthetics, tectonics and constructions. It is the claim that this fused space of digitality and reality, immateriality and materiality, can allow architects to access and unfold options and opportunities for design. The correlation between digital drawing and materials through fabrication can establish an unbroken, but highly susceptible link between early experimentation, design and component development and potential final fabrication.

ARC is the architectural robotics and computation Lab at Aarhus School of Architecture. ARC is anchored as a central part of the research and workshop based teaching at Aarhus School of Architecture.
The lab develops and uses computational and digital fabrication methods and strategies all with a strong shared interest in materials and realisation. The work within the lab is predominantly experimental, but always with an integral intention and ambition to establish itself within the workflows of architectural design and construction. Both in teaching and research ARC seeks to push and extend the spectrum of tools we work with as architects.

As a part of the exhibition ‘Skin Cut Construction’ in Onground Gallery, Seoul the following projects - among others - from ARC are included:

Soft Structures builds upon of a series of experimental use of EPS hot wire cutting, where the EPS eventually act as formwork for concrete casting. The processing of the EPS is distinct and delimited by the behaviour and form of both the robot and tool. The EPS act as a boundary for the concrete and the final result become a negotiation between the surface of the formwork and the properties of the concrete.

Concrete Moves is an ongoing experiment directly inspired by the inherent properties of concrete. The transition from the naturally fluid, wet concrete to its cured, hard state is manipulated by continuous robotic interference. Specific motions and parameters of a robotic arm meet the material capacities of concrete and explore the space emerging from this interface of both control and uncertainty.

Intermediate Fragment is a component of coherent transition between a concrete base and wooden construction. The structure builds on a series of investigations of the design possibilities that arise when combining digital fabrication tools and material capacities. Shapes of multi-angled kerf cut ash wood ribbons continue into a concrete base creating a cohesive shape. The form for the concrete itself is made using a CNC routed polystyrene piece partiality lined with latex and partially treated with a retarding solution.

Rebar Inside Out discusses the widely used composite in building construction; reinforced concrete. The interplay between the properties of steel and concrete makes it a reliable approach to many challenges in the realisation of buildings. Rebar Inside Out attempts to rethink the possibilities of the reinforced concrete composite starting from its inside. This means starting with the reinforcing steel, the production and shaping of this, and then through that process build a workflow for the production of the concrete composite. It also means letting the steel out of the concrete, thereby positioning the two materials in a transnational relationship between steel construction and concrete composite.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdatosep. 2017
UdgivelsesstedOnground Gallery
StatusUdgivet - sep. 2017
BegivenhedSkin - cut - construction: Danish experiments in concrete - Onground Gallery, Seoul, Sydkorea
Varighed: 1 sep. 201711 nov. 2017
http://www.on-ground.com/exhibitions/danish-experiments-in-concrete/?ckattempt=3

Udstilling

UdstillingSkin - cut - construction
LokationOnground Gallery
Land/OmrådeSydkorea
BySeoul
Periode01/09/201711/11/2017
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  • Seoul
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