{"id":12640,"date":"2025-09-21T07:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:17:18","slug":"dhruva-vijaya-kumar-menon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=12640","title":{"rendered":"Dhruva Vijaya Kumar Menon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Spreepark Journal | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A multiscalar intervention embedded in Berlin\u2019s Spreepark, a former amusement park now under redevelopment. The project reclaims the site\u2019s layered history and industrial residue, transforming it into a public space for retreat and material experimentation. It combines a bathhouse, ceramics workshop, and ecological research centre, where leisure, production, and environmental storytelling intersect.

At the project\u2019s core is an ambition to embed environmental data into architecture. Using a self-built clay 3D printer, it tests fabrication at various scales, from post-tensioned ceramic roofs to fine grain detailing, encoding site-specific data such as groundwater levels, river flow, and erosion. These inputs shape everything from landscape etchings to building massing and ornamentation.

Balancing digital precision with material imperfection, the project embraces clay\u2019s expressive failures and structural capacity. The climbable roofscape merges building and landscape, creating a civic space that acts as both a vessel for well-being and a journal of Berlin\u2019s environmental and social change.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Potter
<\/strong>A custom delta clay 3D printer was built to enable hands-on experimentation and develop a deeper understanding of the fabrication process through prototyping<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Test Tiles<\/strong>
Translating environmental, historical, and social data into physical form through parametric scripting and clay 3D printing. Failures and unique profiles become artefacts of data in their own right.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Model Collection<\/strong>
The printer is used to fabricate across scales, from a 1:1 birdhouse to a 1:10 table, and even the overall site at 1:500.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Bath House<\/strong>

The language of the drawings echoes the toolpaths of the modelling process. The building is embedded within a landscape shaped by layered environmental data.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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