High performance concrete
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News • Detail • 2 Feb 2023
Detail: filigree grid around residential building The Line in high-strength concrete
On Overhoeks, Orange Architects provided residential building The Line with a filigree grid in high-strength concrete all around. How exactly is this grid detailed? Architect Jeroen Schipper of Orange Architects gave Architectenweb, sister company of Archello a tour and went into detail as to how the facade was made."In Overhoeks, sturdy buildings stand together in high density," begins architect Jeroen Schipper of Orange Architects. " That's why the idea came to us to bring some lightness to it with circular balconies, whose balcony edges would form a filigree grid together with vertical elements. So that the residential building would blend into the neighborhood like a kind of docked cruise ship.""Because we also wanted to make a stony bu... More
News • News • 3 Nov 2022
Ge Hekai Hall at Wenzhou-Kean University unveiled by Los Angeles- based Moor Ruble Yudell as a permanent home for the university’s architecture and design academy
The new Ge Hekai Hall at Wenzhou-Kean University was recently unveiled by Los Angeles- based Moor Ruble Yudell (MRY). Envisioned as a permanent home for the university’s architecture and design academy, the building was designed to be flexible enough to welcome and be used by all students across the campus. It includes spaces for other academic departments as well as social, study, and event areas, and extensive surrounding green spaces.
Seth Powers
The Wenzhou-Kean campus is a 175-acre site surrounded by mountains in Wenzhou, about an hour south of Shanghai. It is a satellite campus of New Jersey’s Kean University and the master plan was designed by the office of renowned architect Michael Graves. Both the architectur... More
Project • By Spring Valley • Cultural Centres
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CAAST ® stands for Concrete Art & Applied Science Technology. It is an Ultra-High Performance Concrete that achieves an MPa of 120 ( 8x stronger than conventional concrete). This particular project takes full advantage of the unique properties of CAAST®. The particles are so tiny that every detail that the architect wanted to capture in this design is perfectly replicated from the molds in which it is cast. Titanium dioxide in the matrix adds whiteness to the panels and gives the concrete a self-cleaning characteristic. When light and heat strike the concrete's surface, titanium dioxide uses that energy to break down dirt into molecules such as oxygen, water, carbon dioxide, nitrates, and sulphates. Gases float away, while liquids... More