Concrete has been around for millennia, but that doesn't mean we can't cook up new ways to build with the world's favorite construction material. It's been electrified to melt snow and used as an "ink ...

A prototype for an ultra-thin, sinuous concrete roof using innovative design and fabrication methods has been designed and built by researchers from the ETH Zürich. The shell is part of a roof-top ...

KnitCandela is a curved concrete shell consisting of an ultra-light steel cable net and knitted formwork. The knitted fabric panels were transported to the construction site in just two cases. The ...

custom assembly of concrete, steel cable net, polymer textile formwork, heating and cooling coils, insulation, and thin-film photovoltaic cells The rooftop structure rises about 24 feet high, ...

With the high cost of building residential and commercial houses, innovative minds are always coming up with ways to make construction projects more bearable. A cheaper and emerging way to build a ...

The test structure, which has already been dismantled, was 7.5m high with a surface area of 160m². It was built using a framework net of steel cables covered in a polymer textile. The concrete had an ...

The human mind never ceases to think and explore, even when we know that all the innovations may not be beneficial, for the simple reason that one valid ideation among a hundred failed ones is still ...

The distinctive shell structures form part of what was Norwich Sports Village, which opened in Hellesdon in 1988 [John East/Twentieth Century Society] A leisure centre's "majestic" concrete domes ...

KnitCandela: Der Prototyp der geschwungene Betonschale im Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexiko-Stadt (Foto: Juan Pablo Allegre) KnitCandela is a curved concrete shell consisting of an ...