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Ripple Sculpted Façade Created for Margraf Facility in Italy
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The 3-D architectural treatment is constructed from shaped blocks of Fior di Pesco Carnico® marble
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it looks beyond challenges as it prepare to conclude the futuristic, monumental new work Ripple, which was designed by the noted Italian architect Raffaello Galiotto.
drive and it is like an Ancient Greek propylaeum: a monumen- tal entrance to the Margraf Area.
Ripple highlights Margraf’s exceptional technical and techno- logical capabilities when it comes to shaped marble cutting for use in the increasingly popular 3D cladding of architectural façades.
The ground-breaking project showcases the 3D qualities of stone in architecture using an innovative shaping-wire cutting method. Whereas the traditional technique involves removing and crushing excess material, this is a separation-based process.
The block of marble is surgi- cally divided into parts, which are then seamlessly put back together
to create new shaped, curved and winding forms.
Parametric software was used during the complex design pro- cess, which ensured that the ma- terial use, cutting and processing times were optimized. All of the necessary stone pieces were pro- duced one after another: like the petals of a rosebud, they were plucked one at a time and then re- arranged on the wall.
The undulating stone cladding on the façade is made up of 350 pieces that are lined up in 35 col- umns of 10 different pieces. In addition, there are curved pieces on the sides of the wall and more than 300 flat tiles on the inside.
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these extraordinary times,
Ripple is a towering propylaeum (façade) designed with a stunning 3D appearance that stretches 37.6 feet high by 89 feet wide, and adorns the wall of the new din- ing facilities in the Margraf Area in Gambellara (near Vicenza). It is made of exclusive Fior di Pesco Carnico® marble, which
can only be found in a quarry in Forni Avoltri (near Udine) that is owned by Margraf.
Margraf commissioned this challenging work to go on the opposite side of the new logistics site from the monumental 14.5 m Arcolitico arch that was created in 2018. Ripple is located on the
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