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Textile Column: Drawing and Weaving with 3D Printed Clay

Textile columns are a series of 3D printed ceramic clad structures that are prototypes for ornamental, fire-resistant cladding systems for structural steel. These pieces offer a critical practice against the state of the art by reimagining architectural ceramics in the digital age using Semperian metaphors of textile and dressing as design principles. The approach is illustrative of an alternative to the complex computational design methods that dominate the field with greater focus on architectural theory and analogue thinking. The aim of these prototypes is to question how we design using paste-based additive manufacturing technologies from an architectural perspective and explore 3D printed clay for its ornamental and fire-resistant qualities. These columns question the relationship between the ornamented and the bearing in the digital age.

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Contributors

S. Pain
N. Bartov
E.P. Choo
J. Young

Royal Danish Academy
Denmark

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