Digital Fabrication Redefines Reinforced Concrete at Buzzi Heritage Cultural Center | Carlo Ratti Associati

A digitally fabricated concrete truss redefines adaptive reuse, linking heritage buildings into a cultural hub. Carlo Ratti Associati’s (CRA) winning proposal for the Buzzi Heritage Cultural Centre in Casale Monferrato positions reinforced concrete within a new technological paradigm. The intervention connects two former educational buildings through a 100-metre-long suspended truss, transforming the site into a publicly accessible cultural campus organised around a sequence of open green courtyards.The project advances an approach where construction logic and material research operate in tandem. For the first time, reinforced concrete, historically resistant to process innovation, is re-examined through a digitally fabricated steel–concrete composite system. […]