Technology meets tradition
at History Colorado Center in Denver
WITNESS how award-winning artist Ronald Rael’s architectural imagination intersects with explorations of identity, geography, ancestry, and the future. History Colorado and Rael are demonstrating how modern-day innovation can reimagine the 7,000-year-old technology of adobe by 3-D printing objects out of more than 10,000 pounds of clay, straw, and sand on the front porch of the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver.
This unique installation by architect and artist Ronald Rael uses modern-day innovation to reimagine the 7,000-year-old technology of adobe. It will begin with a live demonstration of Rael using 3D printing to create a large art installation out of an adobe mixture of clay, straw, and sand, which will then be displayed at the History Colorado Center to show how ancient technologies live on today, and can be adapted to our future.
This adobe printing demonstration, titled Mud Futures, taps into Ronald Rael’s roots in Colorado’s Conejos County and challenges the viewer to think differently about materials, space, and borders, while also showing how ancient technologies might be adapted to solve current building challenges and provide answers for our future.Â
PHOTO courtesy History Colorado
