Ceramic designs of Harvard in Cevisama

To the already traditional areas on the Ceramic Prizes and the Expocátedra, has joined them this edition a spectacular installation designed by the professor Martin Bechtold of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) of the University of Harvard (EE UU). The installation consists in a ceramic cover with some approximate dimensions of 7,8 x 4,5 metres in plant, suspended through the central pillars of the enclosure ferial. The peculiarity of the cover, realizar with ceramic pieces, is that it presents a surface of double curvature resolved with an only piece, when the usual in surfaces of double curvature is the use of several types of pieces. To achieve this simplification, the pieces have fit between yes, absorbing the differences of measures of the surface to revestir. The installation remains floating to a distance of the floor of some 3 metres, allowing that the public can contemplate it from different points of view.

The GSD of the University of Harvard has under way the project of investigation ‘Ceramic Futures' that remains framed inside the agreement of collaboration that Ascer keeps from 2007 with the prestigious North American university. The students participants in the project receive specific learning on the ceramics and explore methods of experimentation for architectural applications advanced, like the digital modelling advanced, methods of digital manufacture and robotic manufacture, etc., all this incorporating appearances of sustainability and environingingmental half respect.

Ascer, through the Network of Chairs of Ceramics, keeps collaborations with international schools like the GSD of Harvard, the School of architecture of the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), and the School of architecture of Darmstadt (Germany).