HORMIGÓN CIRCULAR Y REGENERATIVO. UNA APUESTA POR LA IMPRESIÓN 3D DE MATERIALES CONGLOMERADOS = REGENERATIVE CONCRETE AND CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION
Keywords:
Economía circular, Diseño regenerativo, Impresión 3D, Construcción aditiva, Hormigón, Circular Economy, Regenerative Design, 3d Printing, Additive Construction, ConcreteAbstract
La transición hacia una economía circular exige cambios sustanciales en la arquitectura y sus materiales de construcción. La impresión digital de elementos de hormigón es uno de esos procesos de regeneración. La fabricación aditiva desarrollada desde la década de los 70 constituye uno de los mayores avances en la industria moderna. Su aplicación en el campo de la arquitectura, como construcción aditiva, se presenta como una de las revoluciones de la arquitectura contemporánea. En este trabajo se discute la idoneidad de esta técnica para su implantación sistemática en la arquitectura. Se estudia la fabricación aditiva en la industria como predecesora y su aplicación en otros campos para poder entender el cambio necesario hasta llegar a la escala arquitectónica. Se recoge el estado actual de la técnica de la impresión en hormigón y sus principales aplicaciones y metodologías constructivas. Se proponen distintos casos actuales, con el análisis de las características de la técnica desarrollada hasta hoy. Al final del artículo se discute la viabilidad de la implantación de la construcción aditiva y su futuro.
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The transition to a circular economy requires substantial changes in architecture and its building materials. The digital printing of concrete elements is one such regeneration process. Additive manufacturing is, since its origin in the 1970’s, one of the greatest steps forwards in modern industry. Its application, as additive construction, has the potential to bring about a revolution in contemporary architecture. This thesis, therefore, seeks to understand the scope that this new revolution could achieve, and the feasibility of its systematic implementation in the construction industry. In order to achieve this, an understanding of additive manufacturing, as an effective predecessor, and its applications in other fields of research is first obtained. This allows a discussion of the main additive manufacturing techniques and how they apply to additive construction in order to understand the necessary changes that would allow effective implementation on an architectural scale. The current state of the technique, its main applications and constructive methodologies, are studied afterwards. Several case studies are subsequently proposed, that allow a deeper analysis of the technique’s characteristics developed so far. Once the results are obtained, the viability of additive construction’s implementation and its future are discussed.
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