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Final Project

arcraft — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:31:34 +0000

The Barcelona Tilefactory Project was delivered late december. Here are the final drawings!

QrrfghOuch! …timetravel….

arcraft — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:28:50 +0000

Isn’t it just facinating how the digital world can bring you back to monday, on a totally normal wednesday!

Waking up today – Rhino denied showing me last two days of work! Not even the autosave will open! QddfghOuch! This travelling in time sucks! Isn’t it possible to produce a bulletproof software? Architecture is frustrating… So here we go again, Rhino is my friend!

Patterns

arcraft — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:35:12 +0000

Can’t pass the chance of using a wonderful pattern. This one I like particularly. It’s of course a typical Barcelonian tilepattern! I’m probably gonna put it in my project somehow!

For people interested I strongly recommend the book “Barcelona Tile” by Mario Arturo Navarro. I personally met him during my visit in Barcelona, and that book reveals an incredible number of traditional patterns.

Patterns like this one were designed by local architects and designers.

Progress!

arcraft — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:52:51 +0000

Feeling good these days! Finally a building taking shape. Working in Rhino now, and all flat surfaces, but that might change in the end. New feature is that I have occupied parts of the neighbours backyard. Here are some early renders!

Organic…Stealth

arcraft — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:42:33 +0000

I have started doubting the organic shapes for this project. The logics of a tile is of course flat surfaces, so with a slightly new approach I will test my idea again. Here is the sketchplan I just have drawn! Please feedback if your name is thomas, shaun or joao!

Sweet sunday…

arcraft — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:37:38 +0000

Yepp! For the record: I’m now struggling in Rhino. But it starts to look like a building!

I’ve connected the metro up to my site:

And made the startingpoint for the tile museum:

From underground it look like this at the moment:

Tilemaking

arcraft — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:53:42 +0000

Isn’t handcraft just great! This is a picture of making of one tile. The curingprocess takes 4 weeks, then the tile could be put on the floor. Cost? 2 euros each…

Mits Kanda and Joao Costa Vieira on short visit…

arcraft — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:27:05 +0000

Mits Kanda from Arup London and Joao Costa Vieira from OnOffice just commented my project. They were excited about the tiles, and the posibilities of putting a factory back into the city.

They had interesting feedback on my drawings, suggesting to have a more rational startingpoint. More or less as I did with the section ealier, but then design it so it could show people the productionmethod and innovative use of the tile itself. In practice the space could be tubes distorted and reshaped customized for the manufacturing of a tile. These tubes could lead people around like the tunnels in an Aquarium.

My conclusions are:

Im going into rhino now, trying to conceptualize the space of the factory in particular, but also a public passage/museum program. Making custom designed spaces for the factory, and let people see the fascinating story of The Barcelona Tile.

Please feedback on this feedback, or else I’m gonna keep on keeping on!

arcraft — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:41:29 +0000

The next thing I would like to do before I go further with these plans, is to model everything in Rhino again, to see how the project evolve in the process of digitalizing. Last time it changed quite a bit…

This shape is a modified version of mye layered floorecks idea. Here as a roofplate. Double curved surfaces and quite structural I guess…

plans in progress

arcraft — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:06:40 +0000

So this is what I have managed to do today. Pretty happy now. Excited to see what Mits Kanada is gonna say tomorrow!