TU/e, professor Arno Pronk and his team have won a prize for their 14-metre-high skiing adventures fresh. At the time of the Chinese Central feature of the members of the team, a sort of eiffel tower is made of ice.
The project, it was the opinion of the judges, “the best and the most innovative” of the ijssculpturenfestival in the city. The tower, together with the Architecture students of the university and Its College of design.
The structure was built with a rope attached to a crane. And then there is the water on and sprayed it with a hose. After that, students have a slagroomspuit in the hold of a cherry picker, the rest is done.
The instructor for this course did the first study to look at the sprayable ice called ‘pykrete’, a reference to the scientist is that of Pyke, who, in the forties, had been doing some research into this stuff. With a specific binding agent, which is also in the power supply can be used, it is the Pride finally managed to get the ice-cream is liquid enough to get in.
now, In 2022, it wants to show off a 40-metre-high skiing adventures fresh in Beijing, drop in the occasion of the Olympic Games. About to be interviewed.
The construction of the two-meter-high skiing adventures fresh. (Photo: No Boonstoppel).
