Construction Process

We are under construction process now. The students from TU/e, Summa and HIT are working in the extreme cold,
the construction works is going slowly and tough under minus 25 degree in Harbin, but our students will overcome
all the difficulties and persist to achieve our goals.

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Meet Our Team

The Flamenco Ice Tower Dutch team was accompanied by a group of master students from the Eindhoven University of Technology and Summa College. Other students are from HIT or volunteers to participate in the project.

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Prof. Arno Pronk
Architect / Project Leader

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Yaron Moonen
Chief Engineer

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Yiling Zhou
Project Manager

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Bart de Miranda
Engineer Mechatronics

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Gavin van Turnhout
Engineer Mechatronics

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Sjoerd Keltjens
Software Engineer

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Tim Dierx
Mechincal Engineer

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Michiel Vrijsen
Mechincal Engineer

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Gillis Ide
Architectural Engineer

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Zohra Karam
Structural Engineer

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Kalaba Banda
Structural Engineer

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Sief Brands
Structural Engineer

Almost There Dec.28th

🙋‍️Greeting from the top of the tower!🙋‍Almost there!😍

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Stands with the MoonDec.30th

Our Baby stand straight and strong with the beautiful sunset and moon🌝. 💪We almost reached our goals!

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Material testingDec.22th

With the cellulose, the composite ice material can be super strong only at 3-5cm. ✊

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Photo by Yiling Zhou

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Start SprayingDec.20th

After days and nights none stop hard works, suffered from troubles and thrilling😨 moments, Finally! It STANDS!😎

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Photo by Peng Zhao

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Professors arrives Dec.14th

All the professors from TUE and KUL were arrived yesterday.We had a short meeting on site, explained all the progress of our Ice Tower. Though the weather is getting colder, we still have high enthusiasm to work!

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Container Arrives Dec.13th

Our container arrived! After thousands of kilometers by train our baby arrived on the building site! We are so happy!

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Photo by Yiling Zhou

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Ice Ring Foundation Dec.13th

Today, we start to construct our Ice Tower!It is super cold here in Harbin, -25℃！The first step today is to settle the ice foundation, which will be the stairs to go inside of tower later. A single ice block is super heavy, we learn some skills from the ice builder to place and shape the ice block!

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Photo by Yaron Moonen

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Harbin International Ice Festival

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Chinese: 哈尔滨国际冰雪节) is an annual winter festival that takes place with a theme in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, and now is the largest ice and snow festival in the world. At first participants in the festival were mainly Chinese, however it has since become an international festival and competition. The festival includes the world`s biggest ice sculptures.

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International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival

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Snow sculpture

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Ice brick castle

The Highest Shell Structure in Ice

The design consists of a 30 meter high vertical tube with six entrances. To enter the centre of the tower the audience has to climb one of the six staircases made of transparent solid ice blocks. The ice blocks in the staircases are illuminated similar to most of the solid ice structures in the ice festival.

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