Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (Foster)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (Foster)
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Alternate Title:
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Droneport Prototype
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Image View:
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Detail of one completed module (a concatenated vault) covered with clay tiles and "DuraBric"
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Creator:
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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) (Swiss university, founded 1854); Norman Robert Foster (British architect, born 1935)
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Location:
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exhibition: Venice, Veneto, Italy
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Location Note:
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Giardini della Biennale; outside the Arsenale
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GPS:
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+45.429167+12.356944
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Date:
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2016 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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African (general, continental cultures)
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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compound vault
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Work Type 2:
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hangar
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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terra cotta tile; DuraBric (compressed earth and cement)
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); molding (forming)
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Measurements:
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8 m (height) x 10 m (length, area spanned by vault)
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Subjects:
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architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); engineering and industrial design; manufacturing; Sustainable buildings; Transportation; concatenated vault; Rwanda; drones; medical aid; developing countries
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Description:
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Inaugural project of the Norman Foster Foundation, the droneport project is an attempt to improve health and economic outcomes in Africa by delivering medical supplies to inaccessible areas. Red Line is a cargo drone route for medical and emergency use in Africa and other emerging economies, founded by Afrotech-EPFL director Jonathan Ledgard. To accomplish its mission, Red Line supports the development of cargo drones, droneport infrastructure, logistics, and regulations. The full-scale earthen masonry shell (a concatenated vault) built outside the Arsenale is a prototype for a project in Rwanda. The objective is to make the design available as a "kit-of-parts" with a construction manual for the safe, efficient and repeatable construction of droneport modules by local workers using primarily local resources. The primary material will be "DuraBric", which is a naturally cured (non-fired) building block made of compressed earth and cement. (Source: Block Reseach Group [website]; http://www.block.arch.ethz.ch/)
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Image Description:
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Each module uses three layers of bricks, an inner layer of traditional clay tiles from Spain and two outer layers of "DuraBric", which is a naturally cured building block made of compressed earth and cement.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Twelve
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Identifier:
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1A2-I-VE-VB16-81-A09
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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