Breaking away from conventional formwork!

[ad_1] Compiled by Vinita Wagh Photography: Juan Pablo Allegre; courtesy ZHA Read Time: 2 mins 30 secs . Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich introduce KnitCandela – an incredibly thin concrete shell, built on an ultra-lightweight, knitted formwork that can be suitcase-condensed. How’s that for revolutionary? Designed to coalesce expertise in the fields of computational design, engineering and fabrication, it brings together ZHA’s design research group ZCODE for its design vision, ETH Zurich’s Block Research Group (BRG) for the formwork and Architecture Extrapolated for its on-site execution. plan.aerial view Constructed in Mexico as part of ZHA’s first Latin American exhibition, the […]