FabricArte I

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Written By M Wesam Al Asali
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Valencia
February 2018

Fabricarte is a three-vault pavilion designed for the central hallway of the Valencia Expo during CEVISAMA 2018. The project is facilitated by Tile of Spain (ASCER) and the Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica  (ITC), both working each year with artists, architects, and researchers on projects that aim to push the boundaries of the use of ceramic as a material and an architectural element.

The project experiments with craft-inclusive prefabrication for building vaults rapidly.  Vaults were built in a workshop and then sliced and transferred to the site to be reassembled. The geometrical configuration with which the three vaults were sliced is inspired by gothic vaulting, commonly seen in the historic

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