Students at the Barthel School of Architecture, part of University College London, discovered fused glass on an architectural scale to create continuous and discrete building skins. The student team consisting of two eyes wager, Sun Meng Yan, Jian Fei, led by teacher Kostas Gregoriades, wanted to propose a multiple new material that would allow a more direct, immediate and systematic building technique, continuing the current practice of chaotic tectonic clusters.
The project examines the construction of a single secretion of multiple continuous contrast materials, consisting of transparent, transparent, opaque and structural insulating materials. In architecture, the idea of stepwise materialism promises a fundamental shift in how the elements are united, which opens up a whole new debate for the understanding of structures as the continuous domains made up of diverse materials at the local level are varied.
One of the major problems students encountered when incorporating glass with metal in an architecture scale was the shooting process and maintaining gradient accuracy when following up on the mathematical simulation results. “In order to shoot glass and metal as a building as a single monolith, as usually happens in a small prototype, a firing method was developed and tuned with scale using computer simulation, and then transferred to the actual model.”
Although many architects and designers efficiently develop techniques for 2D printing structures, the team realized that 3D printing an entire structure in a fluid gradient was nearly impossible due to limitations in the manufacturing process. However, they were able to mix the computational method during the first stage of the research, with manually fabricating the skin of the building. They believe their method can be used to combine 3D elements such as a wall-to-floor ceiling group or a stair-floor wall component such as a "single complete architectural piece".
The team presented the Functional Classified Curtain Wall at the b-pro Bartlett exhibition, which took place in September and October 2018. The group now hopes to develop technology to produce other architectural elements with different properties and functions. "One of the next steps of the project is to continue exploring the multi-material aspect: developing a mixture of the two materials for the building's façade." The ultimate goal of students is to conflict with discrete construction and the development of new materials and techniques to create large-scale structures.
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