{"id":111295,"date":"2024-07-02T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_profile&#038;p=111295"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:41:36","slug":"future100-new-technologies-construction-materials","status":"publish","type":"metro_profile","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/future100-new-technologies-construction-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"For These Students, New Technologies Unlock Ageless Construction Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:63% 54%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1546\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2024//07//ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_CHouse1.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_CHouse1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_CHouse1-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_CHouse1-1024x792.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_CHouse1-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_CHouse1-1536x1187.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">C-HOUSE CONNECTED COMMUNITY, designed by Future100 honoree Chizumi Kano and his peer Suvin Choi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">July 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">For These Students, New Technologies Unlock Ageless Construction Materials<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">Drawing upon references to indigenous knowledge, history, and nature, the next generation of architects and designers is reimagining how we build and what we build with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"//tag//sam-lubell/">Sam Lubell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//sharer//sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fprofiles%2Ffuture100-new-technologies-construction-materials%2F\%22 target=\"_blank\"><svg 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class=\"size-regular\">Natural building materials like wood and stone have been employed for millennia. However, these METROPOLIS <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//programs//presenting-the-2024-metropolis-future100///">Future100<\/a> honorees are finding inventive ways to apply them, imagining a new generation of sustainable and culturally attuned projects that frequently partner with new technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">In response to the devastating 2021 Dixie Fire in Greenville, California, Chizumi Kano (BArch graduate, <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.cca.edu///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California College of the Arts<\/a>) devised a new lodge and community center that incorporates mass timber throughout, responding to the area\u2019s long history of logging, ranching, and hospitality, while proposing a new breed of fire-resistant, sustainable materials. C-House Connected Community offers a Welcoming Center (containing a library and museum), short-term rental units, dining, and a makerspace organized around a communal courtyard. The structures incorporate <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//?s=CLT\%22>CLT<\/a> for roofs, panels, structural grid, columns, and mullions. To leave a trace of the site\u2019s recent history, the ruins of fire-scorched brick walls are preserved in places, merged with wood blocks. To achieve openness and ventilation, glass walls would open to the interior courtyard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2024//07//ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_01_AZ_RockSkin-3.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_01_AZ_RockSkin-3.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_01_AZ_RockSkin-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_01_AZ_RockSkin-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_01_AZ_RockSkin-3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ala Zuchniak generated these forms, along with fellow Toronto Metropolitan University students Joelle Poitras and Georgia Barrington, using a combination of AI, lidar scanning, and hand-sculpted clay models.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The ability to push traditional materials to perform new functions, with new levels of performance, was a through line in several other Future100 projects. Samuel Wylie (MArch graduate, <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.uoregon.edu///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Oregon<\/a>) conceived Baffled!, which challenges the typically planar usage of cross-laminated timber, engaging it in layered and angled configurations that build thickness, strength, and fire resistance. In some cases the structure removed the need for beams while creating a unique visual differentiation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Other projects explore combinations of natural and synthetic elements. For Mahama Refugee Shelter, a series of two-story emergency shelter modules for the Mahama Refugee Camp near the eastern border of Rwanda, Andrea Rubero (BArch graduate, <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////arch.rice.edu///">Rice School of Architecture<\/a>) drew from the umiak, an Indigenous kayak supported by a wooden frame, held together in tension with animal skin. Rubero\u2019s concept employs a frame of wood joists and bulkheads infilled with lighter, more malleable polycarbonate panels, coated fabric partitions and surfaces, and tensioned cables to produce shelters with private sleeping areas and public cooking and congregation zones. Each shell cantilevers over the other, introducing ventilation and natural lighting while also offsetting the shelters slightly to open them up more to the public spaces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2024//07//ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL.png/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL.png 1200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_2022-12-01-Core-Render-v2-FINAL-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In Samuel Wylie&#8217;s proposal for this all-wood building, cross-laminated timber acts as both structure and finish within a flexible space, challenging CLT&#8217;s typical planar and hybrid applications.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2024//07//ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118.png/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118.png 1200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ME_24_SUM_FUT_CNS_Rice_Architecture_2022_Web_-118-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andrea Rubero&#8217;s design proposal, developed with her Rice University peers Lauren Ma and Preston Branton, for emergency shelter modules for a refugee camp near the eastern border of Rwanda uses skin-on-frame watercraft technology for durability, deliverability, and functionality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Ala Zuchniak (bachelor of interior design graduate, <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////www.torontomu.ca///">Toronto Metropolitan University<\/a>) developed research for Rock Skin, an ongoing design research project of Studio Pararaum&#8217;s Linda Zhang and Meng Li, aiming to form an \u201cempathetic connection between sourcing and consumption.\u201d Rather than continually drawing resources from Switzerland\u2019s mountainous regions through mining, Zuchniak\u2019s proposal takes latex skins and lidar scans bearing the textures of Swiss mountain caves, using these to produce bioplastic re-creations via 3D printing and vacuum forming. The result is fascinating, beautifully diverse objects that can further inform bioplastic design via a large array of colors, patterns, and typologies\u2014from hanging pendants to table luminaires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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