This page will be regularly updated with news regarding 'Structural Ice' Projects.
In this coming new year of 2022, with years of experience of the geometric ice structures,
we are challenging ourselves to build a more complex and delicate sculpture in ice in collaboration
with organizer & curator AllRightsReserved on research & development – a new KAWS COMPANION
Sculpture bracing the fierce snowstorms.
The challenge this year is to build an Eiffel Tower look-alike using 3D printing methods. The construction of the Eiffel Tower in ice will work to a ground plan based not on a traditional square, but on a pentagram.
Read moreAn international team of Dutch and Chinese students and professors from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Summa College, the Netherlands, and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, realized the largest ice shell ever after two years of preparation. The tower was opened by the Dutch ambassador in China on January 10th 2018.
Read moreIn late 2019, the Assistant Professor in the Department of the Built Environment plans to build a 40-meter-tall tower using fiber-reinforced ice in the Chinese city of Harbin, inspired by Da Vinci’s work. (Design)
Read moreFor more information about the project please click on the links below.
The team of Dutch students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) realized the first 3D printed gridshell in ice! The shell was built whithin a week in December at the campus of Harbin University of Technology.
Read MoreStudents have to design a mega large polyhydric ice structure. The structure will be made by freezing a cable structure at the inside of an inflatable. After the cable structure can stand on it selve the inflatbable support structure at the outside can be removed en reused for new structures.
Read MoreTogether with Chinese students, we built a small igloo with a diameter of five to six meters and about meters high, which also warmed inside. The outer surface of this pilot-igloo must be cooled and we worked together with the company easycool, which also quoted a number of people to harbin. Also, there was a small tower of four feet high.
Read MoreA pedestrian bridge in wood based on Leonardo’s design has been built in Norway, as well as some small ice bridges. In the winter of 2016 a scale model of this bridge with a span of 50 meters will be created in ice in Finland. It will be the biggest single-span structure in ice ever realized.
Read MoreBy realizing the Pykrete Dome project in January 2014, the world record for building the largest ice dome was set. The span of the dome was 30 meters, 5 meters more than the standing record at that time, which was held by T. Kokawa.
Read MoreThe goal of the project is to realize an ice structure which is based on the design of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The design will consist of several domes. One dome will have a height of 30 meters, which will be the highest ice dome in the world.
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