STRUCTURAL ICE RESEARCH TIMELINE
2003
The igloo can be constructed at an air temperature of +18 ̊C with the help of a cooling machine and an inflatable mould but without the need to build an expensive isolated room.This test case can, in the future, have wider applications than just constructing igloos. At this moment new applications for this method are being researched.
2014
The world record for building the largest ice dome. The span of the dome was 30 meters, 5 meters more than the standing record at that time. This challenging project was realized by 50 volunteers from Holland and the people from the municipality of Juuka, Finland.
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2015
Ice is a well-known material, but as a building material it is quite uncommon. The ice structure is based on the design of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The design was consist of several domes. One dome had a height of 30 meters, which is the highest ice dome in the world.
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2016
In the winter of 2016 a scale model of this br /idge with a span of 50 meters has be created in ice in Finland. It was the biggest single-span structure in ice ever realized. The ice br /idge project tried to realize a world record ice br /idge based on the 1502 design by Leonardo da Vinci and a thin shell ice structure based on the 1958 Restaurant Los Manantiales by Felix Candela in Mexico.
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2016
Together 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.
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2017
Students 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.
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2018
An 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.
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2018
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.
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2019
In 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. Icing on the cake: 2019 will mark the 500th anniversary of the death of that supreme Homo Universalis.(Design)
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2019
The challenge this year is to build an Eiffel Tower look-alike using 3D printing methods.
The structure will stand some fourteen meters tall.
The construction of the Eiffel Tower in ice will work to a ground plan based not on a traditional square, but on a pentagram.
2022
A first-ever monumental sculpture of ice of world-renowned American contemporary artist KAWS in collaboration with AllRightsReserved that depicts two monumental
COMPANIONs sit together amongst the mountains as they marvel at their surroundings, placed on the breathtaking grounds of Tianchi,
Changbai Mountain.
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2025
Once in place, an inflatable membr /ane is used to create an interstitial environment between the outside of the capsule and the Mars atmosphere.
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