Shajay Bhooshan, associate director at Zaha Hadid Architects, explains how the Striatus bridge makes use of historic masonry construction along with modern technology in the next instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons video series produced in collaboration with Holcim.
The video features Striatus, a freestanding 3D-printed concrete footbridge designed to demonstrate how to build with less material.
Speaking to Dezeen in an exclusive video interview filmed at Zaha Hadid Architects’ office in London, Bhooshan explained how the bridge was built to showcase the capabilities of unreinforced concrete and computational design.
“Striatus demonstrates that combining ancient wisdoms of masonry construction, modern technologies of design and engineering and 3D concrete printing, we can achieve a pathway to sustainable use of concrete,” Bhooshan said.
The arched bridge is constructed from 53 hollow blocks, each printed from 500 layers of concrete ink, which took 84 hours to print.
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