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Monday, January 3, 2011

Advances in free-form masonry

via Beyond The Beyond by Bruce Sterling on 1/3/11

*Not “architecture fiction,” because it’s held up by gravity, friction… and computation. via @digitag

Structural Vault Model from Lorenz Lachauer on Vimeo.

http://eat-a-bug.blogspot.com/2010/12/advances-in-free-form-masonry.html

“This model of a free-form compression-only vault has been build using rapid prototyping. It stands just by gravity and friction. It is part of a research project of the BLOCK Research Group at the ETH Zurich. Two publications describe details about the structural models and the design process.”

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