HiLo Prefabricated Floor

Philippe Block; Tomás Méndez Echenagucia; Dave Pigram; Iain Maxwell

HiLo Prefabricated Floor

Philippe Block, Tomás Méndez Echenagucia, Dave Pigram, Iain Maxwell

Design & Built Environment

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Abstract

A working prototype of a bespoke precast concrete floor system developed for the NEST HILO project. Through a combination of integrated design and advanced fabrication strategies the system achieves a 70% reduction of concrete when compared to conventional construction approaches. The incredibly thin (2cm) unreinforced floor further integrates hydronic heating and cooling strategies resulting in a highly efficient thermally active surface, Critically, the reduction of concrete ensures significantly less energy is required to activate. Floor was produced in collaboration with the Block Research Group [BRG] and Architecture and Building Systems research group [A/S]

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	2016 Venice Biennale for Architecture: Lessons from the Front - Venice, Italy Duration: 28 May 2016 → 27 Nov 2016 https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2016

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