Lightwall
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Filtering light and privacy on the east entrance side
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The lightwall was designed to reinterpret the traditional thick Italian concrete wall to create an innovative new type of lightweight external wall
The concrete walls have the ability to absorb and filter heat, light and views can be changed.
Parametric modelling enabled the dense concrete walls to be constructed using a light polystyrene foam casting. The wall was constructed by a series of precast concrete blocks stacked on top of one another. Others were plugged directly from a traditional local manufacturing company. Some blocks could be constructed onsite.
After the blocks were assembled, a layer of insulation and glazing was put into place giving a smooth finish. Each block was parametrically different.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2007
- Completed: Jan 2008
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £34,000
- Procurement: Design and rapid prototyping with artistic direction of manufacturing and installation
- Address: Viale Martiri della Liberta, Cirie, Turin, 10100, Italy
Professional Team 
- Architect: ecoLogicStudio
- Client: Sig. Machetta
- Structural engineer: Studio Gamba
- Parametric modelling support: Smart Geometry Group
- Rapid Prototyping: TEXXUS Ltd
- Light Testing and Simulations: ecoLogicStudio
- Light Testing and Simulations: COMAC spa
- Main contractor: Beni srl
- Services engineer: COMAC spa
Suppliers
- Light blocks prefabricator: Roversi srl