Carbon reinforced concrete makes it possible –

The experimental building of the Institute of Concrete Structures at the TU Dresden is the first house in the world made of carbon reiforced concrete, a new material that was developed in Dresden as a replacement for steel reinforced concrete and is intended to revolutionise the construction industry in terms of the hoped-for climate goals. Moritz Holfelder visited the construction site of the CUBE.

The shell is finished. The formwork has been removed and it is already clear what this elongated building made of concrete, steel and large glass fronts is capable of. The roof or ceiling of the cube-shaped main wing with offices and the transparent showroom continues on both sides in a 90° spiral turn, in each case to form a thin upright wall, once facing east, once west, which tapers off free-standing. Architect Gunter Henn created the double curvature of the CUBE like an elegantly curved scarf.

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