TY - GEN
T1 - Seamless architecture
T2 - International Conference on Sustainable Smart Manufacturing, S2M 2016
AU - Nazarian, S.
AU - Pantano, C. G.
AU - Colombo, P.
AU - Marangoni, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge The Raymond A. Bowers Program of the department of Architectural Engineering; The H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman Collaborative Design Research Endowment, of School of Architecture; Material Research Institute; and Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment for the financial support of this project, helpful discussions with Professors Memari, Rajabipour, Radlinska, and Baird, as well as Hailong Ye for fly ash based GP studies.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents innovative seamless joints to integrate transparent windows within opaque walls while achieving structural, optical, and/or progressive transition between glass and opaque materials such as geopolymer concrete and advanced closed porosity ceramics. We have used casting and kiln forming processes to fabricate our prototypes and have already achieved strong bonds between glass and geopolymer cement and also glass-foam. Several formulations of Geopolymer (GP) based ceramics and Glass-Foam (GF) based ceramics were seamlessly interfaced with glass creating the desired structural and optical continuity, resulting in airtight and watertight transition between the materials without any mechanical joints or connective tissue. Our vision is to expand this technology to engage 3D manufacturing and other free-form fabrication technologies. This approach has many potential applications in the arts, industrial design, and architecture, permitting lower embodied and operating energy, construction details never imagined before, and surface conditions exhibiting multiple optical and structural characteristics.
AB - This paper presents innovative seamless joints to integrate transparent windows within opaque walls while achieving structural, optical, and/or progressive transition between glass and opaque materials such as geopolymer concrete and advanced closed porosity ceramics. We have used casting and kiln forming processes to fabricate our prototypes and have already achieved strong bonds between glass and geopolymer cement and also glass-foam. Several formulations of Geopolymer (GP) based ceramics and Glass-Foam (GF) based ceramics were seamlessly interfaced with glass creating the desired structural and optical continuity, resulting in airtight and watertight transition between the materials without any mechanical joints or connective tissue. Our vision is to expand this technology to engage 3D manufacturing and other free-form fabrication technologies. This approach has many potential applications in the arts, industrial design, and architecture, permitting lower embodied and operating energy, construction details never imagined before, and surface conditions exhibiting multiple optical and structural characteristics.
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U2 - 10.1201/9781315198101-85
DO - 10.1201/9781315198101-85
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034664917
SN - 9781138713741
T3 - Challenges for Technology Innovation: An Agenda for the Future - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Smart Manufacturing, S2M 2016
SP - 423
EP - 430
BT - Challenges for Technology Innovation
A2 - Almendra, Rita
A2 - Roseta, Filipa
A2 - Bartolo, Paulo
A2 - da Silva, Fernando Moreira
A2 - Bartolo, Helena
A2 - Almeida, Henrique Amorim
A2 - Lemos, Ana Cristina
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
Y2 - 20 October 2016 through 22 October 2016
ER -