The exploration of the natural forms in the Catalan Modernism has been conceived with the water. In this tile the flow becomes both form and function. The organic form and natural topography seem to be the results of the natural shaping process the sea water produces by touching upon the sand bed. The topography of [...]
Author Archives: Luca Gamberini
Underwater
Posted in Luca Gamberini, Maria Laura Cerda, Sebastian Alvarado Grugiel | Tagged advanced, Advanced Architecture, ballmill, barcelona, Casting, catalan, cement, CNC Milling, concrete, digital fabrication, escofet, gaudì, jesus, MAA 2013-2014, Milling Machine, modernism, mold, molding, passeig de gracia, pavement, tile design, tiles, urban pavement, walking in the water | Comments closed
Hyperblob
Derived from a hyperboloid of 1 sheet, the Hyperblob is a free standing structure made up of 25 2mm fiberglass rods, 33mm long, through two 3D printed rings, 150 mm in diameter. Hyperboloids can be found in architecture and are based on the concept of a ruled surface: through every point on the surface lies [...]
Posted in Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Giacomo Fiorani, Luca Gamberini | Tagged 3d Print, 3d printing, advanced, Advanced Architecture, barcelona, bending, digital fabrication, digital tools, hyperboloid, iaac, MAA 2013-2014, project 1500 | Comments closed
Light is more
First Digital Fabrication Exercise is concluded. The school’s courtyard is now hosting the final towers made by laser cutting. Our final result is a free-standing structure that looks back at the building rationality and simplicity to reach the top. The structure has been first thought as an assembly of X shaped pieces. These pieces has been then [...]
Posted in Carlos Bausa Martinez, Jose Roberto Diaz Braga, Luca Gamberini | Tagged Advanced Architecture, barcelona, digital fabrication, fablab, fablabbcn, iaac, joints, laser cutter, laser cutting, MAA 2013-2014, modular structures, plywood, tallest structure, tower | Comments closed