New Fundamentals Research Group, in partnership with S.N.B.R., designed and fabricated a stone vaulted pavilion for Rocalia, a natural stone fair held in Lyon last month. At a total area of 36 square meters and 3.20 meters in height, Flux reconnects the past to the present by combining traditional sculptural design with contemporary fabrication processes.
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Stone Pavilion Uses Traditional Form And Technology To Connect Past to Present
https://www.archdaily.com/886126/stone-pavilion-uses-traditional-form-and-technology-to-connect-past-to-presentLindsey Leardi
This Stone Vault Prototype Creates Almost No Material Waste
Italy-based New Fundamentals Research Group recently designed and built a full-scale prototype of an experimental barrel-vaulted stone structure for SNBR, a French company that specializes in cutting-edge stone construction. The structure is named Hypar Vault in a reference to the geometry of its constituent blocks; it uses two types of prefabricated stone modules—one type is the mirror image of the other—whose designs are based on the hypar (hyperbolic paraboloid), one of the only "doubly-ruled" surfaces in geometry. The use of these configurations allowed the vault to be constructed with almost zero wasted stone.
https://www.archdaily.com/878196/this-stone-vault-prototype-creates-almost-no-material-wasteSuneet Zishan Langar