Peng Luo

• Professor (Associate) at Harbin Institute of Technology

Driven by the ice& snow industry and technology, modern ice-shell architecture, as a new type of ice and snow architecture, has great potential value in ice and snow tourism, cultural communication and other fields. Because of the particularity of ice, the ice-shell building is highly sensitive to the environment, and the climate adaptive optimizat...

There has been a long tradition in making ice structures, but the development of technical improvements for making ice buildings is a new field with just a handful of researchers. Most of the projects were realized by professors in cooperation with their students as part of their education in architecture and civil engineering. The following profes...

Structural performance under solar radiation for structures in ice or ice composite is of vital importance. In this paper, the performance of the 30.5-meter-high Flamenco Ice Tower is numerically studied in detail. To carry out this research, material properties of ice composite are first studied based on different types of tests. Subsequently, str...

In 2019, the ice restaurant at the 21st Harbin Ice and Snow World is one of the representative works of contemporary Chinese ice shell architecture. Through the summary of practical experience of the ice restaurant. The design thinking and practice method of coordination between architecture and structure of large complex ice shell are elaborated i...

This paper will focus on the design and construction of two large thin shell structures with ice composites in the winter of 2017–18: the Flamenco Ice Tower and THRICE. Both structures were unique with regard to the application of ice composites. In this paper there will be a special focus on the structural behavior of the fiber-reinforced ice shel...

This paper will focus on the design and construct of the Flamenco Ice Tower, with a special focus on the structural behavior of the fiber-reinforced ice shell and inflatable mould. A Sino-Dutch Team realized a 30.5 meter high ice tower in Harbin, China. The team consisted of Dutch and Chinese students and professors. They realized the largest ice s...

There has been a long tradition in making ice structures, but the development of technical improvements for making ice buildings is a new field with just a handful of researchers. Most of the projects were realized by professors in cooperation with their students as part of their education in architecture and civil engineering. The following profes...

By using inflatable moulds and then spraying cellulose-water mixture, one ice dome and two ice towers were built in Harbin in December 2016. During the whole process, form-finding of the inflatable moulds as well as the construction of these ice composite shell structures are very important for the final results. The mould for the ice dome structur...

Investment control is an important factor in the healthy development of gymnasium construction in universities. It is of great significance to enhance investment control concept and explore efficient design strategy to control investment. Chinese architects have always attached importance to design quality, progress of a project and technology. How...