Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) EPFL Fribourg / Work in progress / 2016-2022
This publication documents the ongoing interdisciplinary research project “A Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC)” by the EPFL laboratories ALICE and IBETON and research partners from the FAUFBA, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. The TRC Prototype Pavilion, built by students and researchers in civil engineering and architecture at EPFL Fribourg, is a proof of concept of a long-established research on TRC’s structural, spatial, tectonic and social potential. The construction of the pavilion is modular and conceived to be dismantled, its aim is in the first place to test and expose innovative and sustainable construction knowledge. The TRC Prototype Pavilion builds on research conducted during the ENAC teaching unit ‘Argamassa Armada’ (EPFL, since 2016) which is named after the Brazilian term for ferrocement. The teaching unit ‘Argamassa Armada’ analyzes and reiterates in textile reinforced concrete (TRC) selected structural elements developed by João da Gama Filgueiras Lima, Lelé (1932-2014) in ferrocement. This crossing of Brazilian industrial knowledge and contemporary research on non-corrosive fiber reinforcement creates the conceptual basis for the design, mold fabrication and casting of new slender elements in textile reinforced concrete, the conceptual basis for the TRC Prototype Pavilion (since 2019). It is intended to be a first step towards adaptable tectonic systems, a modular construction that will be further developed the next years and lead to a new lightweight building technique, forecasting a new and different conception and image of concrete construction at large the TRC Pavilion acts as a messenger for concrete as a social and sustainable "light" material.
Team :
Raffael Baur
Patricia Guaita
David Fernández-Ordóñez
Miguel Fernández Ruiz
Patrick Valeri
Enriques Corres Sojo
Sergio Kopinski Ekerman
Ana Carvalho
Lara Giorla
Oria Abbas
Claude-Alain Jacot
Stéphane Pilloud
Students :
Michele Albertini
Yacouba Bally
Lucas Barrière
Laurianne Chassot
Arnaud Delfino
Vincent Devillers
Thomas Drouin
Battsooj Enkhbaatar
Mohammad Hossein Esmaeelzadeh
Gabriele Falconi
Sylvain Freiburghaus
Adrien Glaus
Lancelot Graulich
Marco Lnadert
Isaac Monnin
Selimcan Ozden
Madeleine Pugin
Abdu Rahmaty
Enea Sala
Lucas Shooner
Karl Valfells
Heitor Ferreira Gimba
Lorena Almeida Magalhães de Oliveira
Maria Clara Mattos Brandão
Matheus Silva Cabral
Mirna Mota Martins
Vitoria Freitas Bruno
Lucas Garboggini Melo Andrade 2020 Fabio Appavou
Hamza Benzakour
Giancarlo Bionda
Alison Blank
Siro Cabrele
Kilian Cossali
Liliana Da Cunha
Alice Dareys
Alexis De Aragao
Yekan Deli
Rahel Dürmüller
Lucas Ferrari
Isabela Ferrari
Philippe Grangeret
Andrea Ishii
Alberto Johnsson
Jonas Knöri
Bryan Parvex
Sean Pasquier
Fabrizio Rocchè
Melanie Schneider
Gabriel Silva
Pablo Stadelmann
Michael Stirnimann
Elie Tournier
Karl Valfells
Juliette Vincent
Xavier Vingerhoets
Jeremy Bussat
Valentin De Britto Tavares
Thibault De Oliveira
Micky Gerardi
Marc Gerber
Téo Golay
Bruno Känel
Kevin Navarro Cruz Pereira
Lionel Progin
Chloé Schindler
Pierluigi Surano
Nicolas Tireford
Alexandre Vallet
Manon Bertola
Dimiti Descloux
Adam ElHamadeh
Juan Garcia
Iris Gibourg
Alberto Johnsson
Hervé Laurendeau
Vincent Luetto
Bryan Marques
Anna Mccuan
Flavio Nogueira
Ghita Ouassini
Débora Pereira Correia
Roman Ramseyser
Karen Schuker
Noemi Tschabold
Karl Valfells
Medhi Wermuth