ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 Features Star-like Particles
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The ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 is made from more than 120,000 recycled plastic spiked stars that create a self-supporting structure bonded only by friction.The ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 explores the construction of spatial enclosures made from designed gra
ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 Features Star-like Particles
The ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 is made from more than 120,000 recycled plastic spiked stars that create a self-supporting structure bonded only by friction.The ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 explores the construction of spatial enclosures made from designed granular materials. Granular materials are material systems which consist of large numbers of granules or particles. These particles are not bound to each other: they interact only through contact forces. In nature examples are sand, gravel or snow.The Pavilion constitutes the first fully enclosed architectural space entirely constructed from designed granules, which lie only in loose frictional contact. Such unbound granular materials show the unique property to obtain both the stable character of a solid material and the rapid reconfigurability of a fluid. If custom-designed particles are deployed, granular materials can form self-supporting spatial enclosures while remaining fully reconfigurable and reusable. 70,000 star-like, white particles are made from recycled plastics. They are poured by a rapidly deployable, large scale robot system.The pavilion demonstrates how designed granular materials open up a new perspective for a design paradigm of productive forms of de- and re-stabilization and, thus, an architecture that can be rapidly deployed and reconfigured, as well as eventually removed and reused.The pavilion uses two types of designed particles with different behaviours: convex spheres, which can flow, and highly non-convex hexapods and dekapods, which can interlock.The convex spheres are a removable formwork, the highly non-convex hexapods and dekapods remain as a self-supporting spatial structure. Both types can be re-used in a new formation as the particles are not bound to each other.Full-scale structures made from designed granular materials need to be constructed in situ.“The total working space measures approximately 9 by 10 metres. The storage boxes of the granular material are used as an effector on the cable-driven parallel robot, which drives them to a precisely defined deposition point and unloads them. Consequently, the empty boxes are deposited as a boundary container on the edges of the structure. In this manner also the storage-, production- and container-system are never redundant but fully reusable,” the press release states.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more
