AAU Anastas and GSA Research Laboratory use digital technologies to create self-supporting stone pavilion
Three hundred individually cut and mutually supporting stone pieces form this latticed canopy in Jericho, which was developed as a prototype to demonstrate new possibilities for building with stone.
Stonematters is part of an exploration into stone construction techniques developed by Scales ? the research department of Bethlehem studio AAU Anastas ? and the Geometrie Structure Architecture research unit at French university ENSA Paris-Malaquais.
The pavilion represents the first outcome of a research project aimed at determining a method to construct the el-Atlal artists and writers residency in the Palestinian city of Jericho, which will be formed of 12 interconnected stone vaults.
Stonematters aims to identify unique and innovative ways of working with stone, which has been the primary building material in the region for centuries. The architects feel that stone's role in architecture has been diminished to that of a cladding material, and are concerned that the knowledge of how to work with it is gradually disappearing.
"The research aims at including stone stereotomy ? the processes of cutting stones ? construction processes in contemporary architecture," said the project team.
"It relies on novel computational simulation and fabrication techniques in order to present a modern stone construction technique as part of a local and global architectural language."
The pavilion covers a surface area of 60 square metres and spans seven metres with a c...
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