Silica

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Producer), Martin Tamke (Producer), Maria Sparre-Petersen (Producer), Emil Fabritius Buchwald (Producer), Simona Hnídková (Producer)

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Abstract

Silica examines the making of 3D printed tiles from recycled container glass. We explore how robotcontrolled extrusion can offer new material practices by which to fabricate glass elements of an architectural scale. We pursue working with recycled container glass powder – a waste product derived from the reprocessing of recycled container glass – to contribute to circular development within an interdisciplinary artistic development context in the meeting between architecture and glass design.
The project has two aims. One the one hand, it builds an in depth understanding of the parameters of fabrication and devising means by which to control these through digital design methods and their interfacing with robotic fabrication processes. On the other hand, it critically questions the architectural, aesthetic and performative properties of these material practices and their embedded methods.
By using the architectural typology of the tile as a place of investigation, we ask how these new material practices can suggest new ways of understanding architectural boundaries through conditions of porosity, translucency, frosting and patterns. Combining two conditions, one creative, circular and technological, the other analytic, conceptual and designerly, we are interested in understanding how these new circular material practices extend existing architectural vocabularies in aesthetic, conceptual and practical ways.
A full scale section model of tiles composed in a overlaying grid, exemplifies employability of the products of the project. A material archive cataloguing the results of the process reveal the expansion of aesthetic opportunities for 3D printed recycled glass that the project contributes to the existing palette of 3D printable materials available for architectural and artistic exploitation, while maintaining circular applications of resources.
Silica is a collaboration between architects Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke and glass artist Maria Sparre-Petersen with research assistant Emil Fabritius Buchwald and architecture student Simona Hnídková.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date28 Nov 2019
Place of PublicationCopenhagen
Media of outputMixed Media
SizeVaried
Publication statusPublished - 28 Nov 2019
EventWORKS+WORDS 2019: Biennale for kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed i arkitektur - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 28 Nov 201919 Jan 2020
Conference number: 2
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Conference

ConferenceWORKS+WORDS 2019
Number2
LocationThe Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK)
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period28/11/201919/01/2020
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Keywords

  • Digital Fabrication
  • Digital Design
  • Glass
  • Recycling
  • 3D printing

Artistic research

  • Yes

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