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Video: Building in glass with Gijs Rikken

9 Mar 2017
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Gijs Rikken, associate at MVRDV, Rotterdam presented his innovative ideas on designing and building with glass.

Learn about key MVRDV projects including Glass Farm and Crystal Houses - a project that uses glass bricks that are stronger than concrete when assembled with a new high-strength, UV-bonded, transparent adhesive. 

Chair: James O'Callaghan, director of Eckersley O’Callaghan

Intro: John Bonning, commercial director of The Building Centre

This talk is part of the SuperMaterial event series, curated by The Built Environment Trust. The event programme is kindly supported by Trimo.

A prototype section of the Crystal Houses project can be seen in SuperMaterial. Exhibit supplied by Rosso Dotto.

  

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