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RotoColumn (2022-09)

A Continuous Digital Fabrication Framework for Casting Large-Scale Linear Concrete Hollow Elements

10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_38

Mehdizadeh Samim, Zimmermann Adrian,  Tessmann Oliver
Contribution - Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium, pp. 476-486

Abstract

The research project RotoColumn aims to produce hollow, vertical concrete elements in various shapes as self-carrying permanent formwork for loadbearing concrete elements. The work is motivated by the urgent need to improve how we build with concrete. The project conceives the digital design simulation, robotic fabrication technologies, and advances in concrete rheology as the drivers for improvements in state ofthe art in construction industry. This paper unfolds the sequencing of individual methods as a part of the larger research goal, described through the digital simulations and different series of large-scale physical prototypes, in collaboration with the Industry partner. The project RotoColumn is a part of the research trajectory Rotoform, a dynamic robotic casting method for manufacturing hollow concrete building elements.

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BibTeX 
@inproceedings{mehd_zimm_tess.2023.R,
  author            = "Samim Mehdizadeh and Adrian Zimmermann and Oliver Tessmann",
  title             = "RotoColumn: A Continuous Digital Fabrication Framework for Casting Large-Scale Linear Concrete Hollow Elements",
  doi               = "10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_38",
  year              = "2023",
  pages             = "476--486",
  booktitle         = "Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Towards Radical Regeneration",
  editor            = "Christoph Gengnagel and Olivier Baverel and Giovanni Betti and Mariana Popescu and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Jan Wurm",
}
Formatted Citation

S. Mehdizadeh, A. Zimmermann and O. Tessmann, “RotoColumn: A Continuous Digital Fabrication Framework for Casting Large-Scale Linear Concrete Hollow Elements”, in Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Towards Radical Regeneration, 2023, pp. 476–486. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_38.

Mehdizadeh, Samim, Adrian Zimmermann, and Oliver Tessmann. “RotoColumn: A Continuous Digital Fabrication Framework for Casting Large-Scale Linear Concrete Hollow Elements”. In Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Towards Radical Regeneration, edited by Christoph Gengnagel, Olivier Baverel, Giovanni Betti, Mariana Popescu, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, and Jan Wurm, 476–86, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_38.