ZAPPI Glass Structures and BLOB Building Designs

Mick Eekhout

The described experiences indicate that in an integrated approach of design, research, development, production and building, new technical steps forward can be taken. Steps that push back frontiers and increase the state-ofthe-art technology. It is worthwhile to be able to combine different design attitudes breadthwise: architectural, structural and industrial designing. The duplication and later the systematization of the initial experiments may cause the profit to not remain non-recurrent, but
consolidated in the worldwide body of knowledge. The concurrent technical steps forward in Zappi, out of own initiative are sometimes accelerated by the initiatives from architects in Blobdriven component manipulations.

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