Barkitecture
Our silly vaulted design for a dog house, built in stone by Escobedo Construction, won “Best in Show”, and a “green ribbon”, at Barkitecture 2012 in Austin, TX, USA.
Archive for November, 2012
Seminar week “Brickworks”
The BLOCK Research Group is organizing a seminar week at ETH on masonry vaulting this semester: “Brickworks” (October 22-26, 2012) together with the Chair of Prof. Andrea Deplazes.
Starting with a RhinoVAULT intensive workshop, given by Lorenz Lachauer and Matthias Rippmann, the students will be building some cool vaults, under the guidance of the Catalan vaulting experts from Moudon, Switzerland, Sébastien and Pascal Pittet, and the Mexican vaulting expert from Mexico City, Prof. Alfonso Ramirez Ponce.