UHPC® Architecture on the sea coast


The big cities on the coasts and rivers have
big problems for the future. A problem is the 
lack of natural space for the permanent 
expansion of cities. Building ever higher 
skyscrapers is not a solution in the long run. 
One solution is to expand the construction 
site by adding fillings in the coastal area, 
as we see in Dubai and Singapore, among 
others. Another solution to the problem is 
the very old traditional construction of pile 
dwellings and houseboats, as they have 
always done in Asia.

Modern architecture has been thinking 

about its designs for a long time with interesting 
designs and projects about future life in coastal 
and river areas. Here, the old living concepts 
are reinterpreted. New materials such as 
UHPC® concretes can easily incorporate 
existing local living concepts and constructions 
and implement them in permanent concepts. 
UHPC® offers absolute seawater resistance with 
extremely high strength. Light, thin but 
high-strength constructions can be combined 
with local traditional materials such as bamboo.

Floating residential and industrial concepts can 

also be realized with UHPC®, and not just above 
water. The first underwater concepts have 
already been implemented worldwide with new 
hotel concepts. Recent plans also include 
entire artificial islands on which hospitals, 
workshops, hotels, kindergartens, residential 
complexes including leisure facilities are built.
Some international architecture firms are 

interested in using UHPC® Ultra High 
Performance Concrete in their living concepts, 
because the advantages of this material are 
unique in their variety and quality.

UHPC
® offshore constructions are already in 
use in areas with extreme environmental 
conditions. UHPC® is very wear-resistant, 
among other things, moving ice masses is 
not a real problem for a UHPC® construction. 
UHPC® materials have no pores, are therefore 
extremely corrosion-resistant and offer an 
extremely long repair-free service life.


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Design with UHPC Ultra High Performance Concrete


UHPC is a very flexible and extremely easy
to combine material. It can be easily molded
as a mortar and very easy to pour as a casting
compound.
Processing times can be set during material
production. Depending on which aggregate
has been mixed in, UHPC can be very well
retrofitted or polished.
UHPC can also be very hard and machining
would only be possible with diamond tools.
With UHPC it is possible to cast extremely
fine structures. The reason for this is the
processing of nanomaterials in the binder
system. Thus copies of historical originals
can be cast, which are almost 99.9%
identical to the original, all cracks, pores,
cracks, etc. of the original are shown in
the copy.
UHPC with very high compressive strengths
of more than 240 MPa enable design designs
that are exceptionally large but are light in
weight.
UHPC materials are resistant to almost all
environmental impacts.