1. Building walls -- a philosophy of engagement.
- Author
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Chandler, Alan
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ARCHITECTURE ,ADULT education workshops ,BUSINESS partnerships ,ARCHITECTURE students ,ENGINEERING students - Abstract
The article discusses the Wall One 1:1 construction workshops involving collaborations between architecture and engineering students in Canada. Wall One aims to establish new techniques using innovative shuttering and focuses on an exercise in rethinking the practice of in situ concrete casting. One of the recycled materials incorporated within the Wall is shredded recycled plastic. Also noted is the role of Wall One as a platform from which materiality, process and technique can be tested simultaneously.
- Published
- 2004
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