Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich develop knitted concrete system

A double-bent concrete shell made with a 3D-knitted formwork in a collaboration between Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich has gone on level to in Mexico City.

KnitCret is a contemporary 3D-knitted textile system for creating curving concrete constructions, with out the want for costly and time-drinking moulds.

The vivid pavilion is is known as KnitCandela in homage to the work of Spanish-Mexican architect and engineer Félix Candela, who created dramatic bent concrete shells in his constructions such because the Los Manantiales Restaurant in 1958.

Over two miles of memoir turned into once knitted into four strips of between 15 and 26 metres in comely 36 hours utilizing a digital fabrication map, then flown over from Switzerland to Mexico in suitcases.

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