scholarly journals Digital Concrete: Opportunities and Challenges

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Wangler ◽  
Ena Lloret ◽  
Lex Reiter ◽  
Norman Hack ◽  
Fabio Gramazio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Cementitious Materials ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Fabrication Technique ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Concrete Technology ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Industrial Revolution

Digital fabrication has been termed the “third industrial revolution” in recent years, and promises to revolutionize the construction industry with the potential of freeform architecture, less material waste, reduced construction costs, and increased worker safety. Digital fabrication techniques and cementitious materials have only intersected in a significant way within recent years. In this letter, we review the methods of digital fabrication with concrete, including 3D printing, under the encompassing term “digital concrete”, identifying major challenges for concrete technology within this field. We additionally provide an analysis of layered extrusion, the most popular digital fabrication technique in concrete technology, identifying the importance of hydration control in its implementation.

Internalising Continuous Variation

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-87
Author(s):  
Kas Oosterhuis
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Continuous Variation ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Mass Customisation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interactive Architecture ◽  
Design Production ◽  
Third Industrial Revolution

The chapter engages with the idea that nonhuman creativity is fostering a new architecture based on continuous variation both in its theoretical and in its technical and material dimension. The chapter depicts the trajectory of ONL, the author’s practice, and how with this mission it has moved to the third industrial revolution that has altogether revolutionised architecture as a whole. In this chapter Kas Oosterhuis redefines the fundamentals in three phases; phase A: mass production, phase B: mass customisation - in which phase ONL’s built projects are positioned - and moving into the upbeat of phase C: distributed robotic design, production, assembly and operation, in which phase the achievements of Hyperbody’s interactive architecture are positioned. He concludes by challenging the traditional role of the architect that has shifted, nowadays, to that of an expert.

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