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SUMMARY:Concrete design workshop - Betonhuis
DESCRIPTION:When? Wednesday 29-03-2023 Where? Pulse Techology TU Delft Ti
 me? 13:00 -18:00 Price? FREE\, sandwhich and drinks afterwards provided! 
 Concrete design workshop  - PRESENCE Every year Tektoniek organizes a Con
 crete Design workshop together with BOUT and U-BASE. In the workshop parti
 cipants develop ideas that they then can elaborate onto a poster with whic
 h they can enter the Concrete Design Competition. Winners of the nationall
 y held competition receive a cash prize and first and second place get to 
 go to an International Concrete Design Masterclass for a whole week. The C
 oncrete Design Competition is organized in a two-year cycle. The present c
 ycle 11 is 2023-2024 and entries can be sent in at all times. --- Concrete
  has like no other material the characteristic to pour it into almost ever
 y possible shape or texture that you can imagine. This gives the designer 
 the freedom to give expression to the PRESENCE of the object. Both sharp c
 orners and flowing curves can be expressed in concrete. Textures from mirr
 orlike smooth surfaces to very rough stonelike surfaces are possible next 
 to any artificial pattern or texture that you can think of. The architectu
 ral philosophy of ‘form follows function’ means the opposite of just e
 mbellishing to whatever you like\, and to what ‘De Stijl’ dictates: ve
 ry flat rectangular shapes and clean junctions. ‘Form follows function
 ’ means to have a good look at the function of the object or part of the
  structure and envision the best shape for that task. So if the connection
  is a hinge\, just design it visually as a hinge. If there is a range of c
 olumns in a structure\, don’t make them all the same\, but make visible 
 what function they have: bearing the whole building\, or just supporting t
 he façade. So in fact de ornamentation of the building follows from the f
 unction of the parts of the building. When you take ‘form follows functi
 on’ literally a step further\, the shape of a column or beam could follo
 w the direction of the forces – this is also called topologic design. Pu
 t the material there\, where we need it – which also fits into the visio
 n of sustainability: use fewer materials and use the materials that we nee
 d as efficiently as possible. In concrete\, it is very easy to just make a
  rectangular shape and fix all the momentum and forces to incorporate stee
 l rebars. In topologic design\, you visualize those forces and let them sh
 ape the structure. Think of the upside-down models that Gaudi made with ch
 ains to visualize the flow of the forces. Very beautiful and organic struc
 tures can be the result. Another\, very topical\, architectural philosophy
  is of the ‘pure materials’: try to use the materials in the purest fo
 rm and utilize their properties to the max. This fits in the vision of a c
 ircular economy in the way that with pure materials it is much easier to r
 euse and recycle them. And although concrete and steel rebars are very eas
 y to separate\, it can be worth investigating the possibilities of concret
 e without rebars. The characteristic of concrete is that it can withstand 
 a lot of pressure\, but not so much traction. So what application can you 
 think of uses mostly pressure force? In fact\, by following topologic desi
 gn\, the structure can be modelled to mostly withstand pressure force. Wit
 h 3D printing of concrete\, it is made possible to print a complex interna
 l structure of an object\, as to spare material. At the moment 3D printing
  is still in development\, but this is one of the goals that can be achiev
 ed with this production method. The idea of this workshop is to come up wi
 th ideas in a pressure cooker brainstorm that can be used to enter the Con
 crete Design Competition. There will be groups made of 4 students with a m
 ixed background to stimulate the brainstorming process! An expert from Wit
 teveen+Bos will give insight into concrete 3D printing technology! At the
  end of the workshop participants will pitch their ideas and participants 
 and experts will give feedback to further develop the design idea.
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