POLYCARB HOUSE °*
TEETER DOCK °*
LENTICULAR COLUMN °*
CLOSED LOOP °*
HYPAR CANOPY °
SHARED BEDS °*
MATERIAL MUSEUM °
SPLIT HOUSE °
DRAPED STONE °*
FLAT STAND °
TIP TAP °
ROCKER °
ARCADE °
TAUT °*
VEER °*
SLING °
ENFOLD °
THREE LEVEL HOUSE °
CHI-OSK °
FIBROUS TECTONICS °
ACTIVE COMPOSITES °
PETRO HOUSE °

Draped Stone °*

BCL *
Synclastic Tensile Stone

DATE 2018

LOCATION Madison, WI

TYPEMaterial Research & Pavilion

DESIGN LEAD
David Costanza

COLLABORATOR Quarra Stone Company

OVERVIEWDraped Stone uses stone in tension through fiber reinforcement, producing a hanging marble canopy. The canopy's form is derived from a hanging mesh simulation that produces a catenary-draped surface. Rather than a traditional tensile structure, where the surface is stretched between two boundary conditions, resulting in an anticlastic surface, the hanging canopy utilizes the weight of the stone to put the fiber reinforcement into tension, allowing for a synclastic tensile structure. 
        Each unit is designed as a sandwich panel. The fiberglass reinforcement is placed between two machined, doubly curved marble slabs. The canopy was entirely constructed from scrap marble as the marble was reinforced. Many marble blocks that otherwise could not be used because of fracture lines and other natural deficiencies could now be reinforced with fiberglass and used in a structural capacity. The reinforced hanging canopy, which reads as precise, delicate, and thin, made from white marble and digitally produced, is held up by a dark grey granite wall, which is massive and rough, exposing the texture derived from the quarrying process.

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