Animate Concrete - Making Of

Animate Concrete – Dance with Me!
Roto-moulded concrete elements by the Digital Design Unit become dancing partners

Architects from the Digital Design Unit (DDU) in Darmstadt and the choreographers from Berlin-based studio tanzpol explore the interrelationship of choreography and architecture with their “Animate Concrete” project. What happens when you can dance with architectural elements? What, if seemingly massive pieces rock and move at the touch of your hand?

The massive-looking but lightweight hollow elements made of concrete and a water-based acrylic resin polymer are designed as discreet elements that join together, but never permanently: with their dry-joint, interlocking connection details they are meant to be rolled, wobbled and rocked by one person without heavy lifting equipment. They can be assembled, dis-assembled and re-assembled into changing urban configurations. Not only allow these qualities for a more circular approach in architecture and construction as the pieces can be reused in future buildings, they also offer a constand, dynamic re-calibration of architectural elements and the human bodies that use, abuse and re-use them.
Project team

Architecture
Digital Design Unit (DDU), Prof. Dr.-Ing Oliver Tessmann, Samim Mehdizadeh M.Sc., Technische Universität Darmstadt
Choreography:
Ashkan Afsharian, Johana Kasperowitsch, tanzpol
Samim Mehdizadeh
Dance:
Johanna Kasperowitsch, Susanne Grau
Scientific development and project management
Samim Mehdizadeh M.Sc.
Robotic fabrication:
Danial Ahmad, Mirko Dutschke, Jingwei Fang, Bingqun Liu, Joshua Schäfer, Luke Schüßler, Daniel Schinkels, Malcolm Unger, Leon Witschorke
Design team:
Nesrin Asma, Bingqun Liu, Aleyna Yanar, Ye Hong, Luke Schüßler, Daniel Schinkels, Kai Shima, Robin Wehrle, Jasmin Tietianiec, Malcolm Unger, Mashal Maria Hashimi, Jingwei Fang, Yishu Dai, Joshua Schäfer, Mirko Dutschke, Cristina Maria Calin, Sara Elif Yildiz, Tong Lee, Leonie Konz
Movie:
Maxim Abrossimov

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