Scary Cool Tech Thread
Scary Cool Tech Thread
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- Kinda neat but I would be concerned with its long-term integrity - weather will ruin concrete. Get a crack and water will fuck it.face_melter
- But I guess you coat it. Cool tho. We use Grasshopper to design this kind of parametric shit, calculates the load-bearing and stress.face_melter
- this kind of structure was invented and used in the 60's... i.e. works by Isler: https://en.wikipedia…uan
- I don't get why they paint it as 'new' and once impossibleuan
- This can be constructed on-site - currently shapes like this have to be pre-cast and transported. The shuttering to make these things is costly and complicated.face_melter
- I mean, it's not the shape - it's the construction method.face_melter
- I bet Isler built his shells onsite, also others like corbusier/xenakis: https://en.wikipedia…uan
- well, actually they acknowledge history & past themselves:
http://www.block.arc…uan - http://www.block.arc…uan
- fucking long link...
> http://bit.ly/2l5jtT…uan - and the innovation is the software, not the method...old school just calculated everything by brainuan