The aptly named Quake Column is a knurled pillar of 3-D printed concrete that combines an ancient Incan masonry technique with state-of-the-art manufacturing tools to create a structure that can withstand seismic shocks without mortar or rebar. Emerging Objects

The aptly named Quake Column is a knurled pillar of 3-D printed concrete that combines an ancient Incan masonry technique with state-of-the-art manufacturing tools to create a structure that can withstand seismic shocks without mortar or rebar.

Each block features molded handles and a code that tells the mason how the structure is to be assembled. Emerging Objects

Each block features molded handles and a code that tells the mason how the structure is to be assembled.

Other experiments include turning waste product like hardwood sawdust into a building material. Emerging Objects

Other experiments include turning waste product like hardwood sawdust into a building material.

The result is an object with a 21st century design, but a 17th century patina. Emerging Objects

The result is an object with a 21st century design, but a 17th century patina.

Emerging Objects experimented with a 3-D printer that produces objects made of sand and created this noise canceling wall. Emerging Objects

Emerging Objects experimented with a 3-D printer that produces objects made of sand and created this noise canceling wall.

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JAMES CITY Along with Tuesday's presentation on a new concept for a fourth middle school in Williamsburg-James City schools, the division's architects delivered a report on just how long the city and county can cope with current growth trends without expanding or building more schools.

Based on that report, dubbed the "10-year Master Plan Study," Chesapeake-based architectural firm RRMM recommended the division build a new 500-seat elementary school by 2019-2020 and build additions onto the high schools by the 2020-21 school year. The report, of course, recommends the construction of a new middle school to open during the 2018-19 school year.

RRMM relied on FutureThink enrollment projections and some of the school division's own research and reporting. RRMM's report said the nine elementary schools will reach their collective capacity by 2019-2020, and by 2023-2024, James River, Rawls Byrd and Matthew Whaley will be short 52 seats for students while the other six schools combined would have a 151-seat surplus. The architects recommended temporary classroom trailers, building additions or rezoning to cope with the shortfall, but said a new school would allow each school to operate at 95 percent capacity while limiting the rezoning needed to find enough space for all the students.

Similarly, RRMM said the high schools will reach their collective capacity during the 2021-2022 school year, and will be short nearly 300 seats by 2023-24. Classroom trailers and rezoning were possible options given, but RRMM's ultimate recommendation was building additions at the high schools to support 550 to 600 more students.

When it came to the middle schools one of which is already over capacity, based on enrollment data and the size of the facilities RRMM architects said the three current buildings would collectively be 553 seats short by the 2023-2024 school year.

"You could make up that deficit with classroom trailers or additions," architect Duane Harver said. "With each school having a deficit, rezoning would not be effective. You'd be moving around the negative numbers. ... We're proposing that a 600-seat middle school be constructed by the year 2018-2019 and that would extend your capacity to the ten-year mark and beyond."

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A century-old industrial building in Chinatown that is being converted to offices will soon house an architecture firm on its third floor.

The entire 13,000-square-foot space will serve as the new Los Angeles office for two firms that merged in August: NAC Architecture and Osborn Architects. The combined firm,which will operate as NAC Architecture, will bring more than 40 architects and staff members to 837 N. Spring St.

Redcar Properties is renovating the three-story brick building completed in 1912 that previously served as a retail center housing multiple small-format shops selling primarily inexpensive imported goods. It stands near the Chinatown station of the Metro Gold Line light rail system.

By opening a new office together, the firms have an opportunity to create a new space oriented toward collaboration, they said.

We wanted our new headquarters to allow us to take full advantage of the new set of activities and opportunities that the merger has created for us, said Michael Pinto, a former principal of Glendale-based Osborn who is now a principal of NAC.

The building is a blank slate and our in-house team of architects and designers are working closely with Redcar to create a custom turn-key build that will foster innovation and enhance our ability to deliver sustainable and responsible architecture, Pinto said.

Redcar Properties, a Los Angeles real estate investment firm, is working on a detailed interior and exterior rehabilitation of the building that includes exposing old bricks and wooden supports.

Much of the buildings original brick and timber features and operable wood windows had been plastered over in previous renovations, President Tom Majich said. This is one of Los Angeles very early industrial buildings and we are going to uncover and underscore its historic architecture and character.

The architects long-term lease with Redcar is valued at $3.3 million, real estate brokerage Industry Partners said. They are expected to move to Chinatown early next year.

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