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Cast & Place: A Cast Aluminum Pavilion Defined by Clay

Cast & Place was an experimental design-build pavilion featuring aluminum panels that were cast into the patterns that emerged from the natural process of clay cracking. Onsite trays of clay flanked the structure to demonstrate the process used to fabricate the panels. Upcycled aluminum was intended to be a central feature of the pavilion, but moving from the competition proposal to the built work revealed the complexities of upcycling within the project’s constraints. Clay, as reliable pattern finder in a novel fabrication method and register of on-site activity, came to define the as-built pavilion.

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Contributors

E.M. Segal
L. Ramsburg
J. Draper
S. Thompson
P. Draper
B. Lindsay
M. Dowd
A.A.H. Cheng

Hofstra University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Entuitive & Knippers Helbig
United States & Germany

Presented at ICSA2022, Aalborg University. Critical Practices 2022 booklet (PDF)