The following text is how Nadia Remmerswaal describes the project.
During my graduation project I have focused on designing a safe housing solution for the Kampung of Indonesia. Making up 80% of the Indonesian cities, the Kampung are housing areas that are famous for their informal, self-build, organic growth that houses the low-to mid-low income city dwellers. It is paramount for these mega-cities like Bandung to be densified, but research shows that insufficient building knowledge is available in these Kampungs to construct higher than two storey buildings.
In my research I have focused on using new technology, like CNC milling, to design a durable, affordable, customizable and above all safe building system that enables the local community in these informal areas to build up to four storeys high.
Nadia designed a re-useable moulding technique. To test and show the quality and esthetics she build a 1:7 scale mould and concrete scale model. In the building process laser cutting would be replaced by CNC-milling. The photo’s above show the process of the model: taping the MDF laser cut, building the mould, pouring concrete, covering the mould and the end result.
The tile wedges made it possible to simulate wooden wedges on a smaller scale. A bonus is the impression of the seams in the mould visible in the surface of the concrete. Nadia has been nominated for the archiprix and she is competing for the ASN world prize.