A katalán - Gauditól jól ismert - boltozási technikát alkalmazta (némi digitális tervezési rásegítéssel) a Map13 tervezőgárdája a Bricktopia nevű pavilon építésénél.
- forrás: dezeen.com
A mai építkezésektől eltérően a kézi építéstechnikát szerették volna előtérbe helyezni a tervezők. A felületet a Rhino háromdimenziós szoftver Rhinovault nevű pluginjével alakították ki, így érhették el hogy a nagyon vékony szerkezetben kizárólag nyomóerő ébred. Ennek a gondolatnak a protoptípusát Philippe Block, Matthias Rippman és Lara Davis fejlesztette ki Zürichi Műszaki Egyetemen.
A pavilont építészhallgatók és más önkéntesek építették fel, a felület geometriáját acélhálóval és karton támaszokkal oldották meg. A kész szerkezet végül négy boltozott teret hozott létre, íves megnyitásokkal: "ajtókkal" és "ablakokkal". A Bricktopia az Eme3 Nemzetközi Építészeti Fesztivál keretében valósult meg idén júniusban.
Photography is by Manuel de Lózar and Paula López Barba, unless otherwise stated. Here is some more information from the architects: Bricktopia, Contemporary Crafts Festival EME3 Bricktopia, by the architects of the international collective Map13, is the winning project in the "Build-it" category at the International Festival of Architecture Eme3 held from the 27th to 30th of June in Barcelona. It can be visited during this summer at one of the courtyards of the former factory Fabra i Coats, in the district of Sant Andreu. This intervention configures a new square where different activities can be performed, both under the building and around it. It includes bathing public spaces and sundecks, a bar and a stage for enjoying the summer 2013. It is a vaulted structure made of brick using a traditional construction technique called tile-vault (or "Catalan vault"). It has been designed with new digital tools to optimise the structure through geometry. The proposal is the result of the academic research currently carried out by Marta Domènech Rodríguez, David López López and Mariana Palumbo Fernández, co-founders of the group Map13, with the help of different Professors from different fields and various schools of architecture. This construction takes as a reference the prototype built by Philippe Block, Matthias Rippman and Lara Davis at the Technical University of Zurich, with which they demonstrated the reliability of "RhinoVault", a plug-in for Rhinoceros, used to design the pavilion. As "Bricktopia" is a pilot project which makes this traditional technique work to its limits, its implementation has required the expansion of the team, which has been enlarged with Paula López Barba and Josep Brazo Ramírez. The construction has also required the effort of Eme3 festival that gives support to young talented people to carry out their projects, the sponsorship of the companies that contributed with workforce and materials and the help of volunteers and students of architecture. This research collects the material tradition and the constructive knowledge of tile vaulting and combines them with contemporary computational tools. This project, developed in the enclosed area of a nineteenth-century factory made of brick, uses the same material raising a new topography in the old courtyard. However, it is opposed to the industrial construction offering a concave and protected space that links the origins of all cultures. The vaulted pavilion sets out the contemporary validity of this traditional system, native of Catalonia and widely used in various parts of the world for centuries. It is economical, sustainable, with formal and functional versatility and nowadays it is also offering the possibility of being built in developing countries for roofs, stairs, drainage systems, etc. Unlike the construction that can be seen these days, this project aims to restore the expertise and imagination of the building hands. "Bricktopia" has been built by excellent builders who have made an unprecedented craftsmanship. The challenge that requires good layout in tile vault construction, specially with a complex shape like this one, suggests the work as an opposite to the mechanical work.
