Aluminum composite material (ACM) is manufactured as flat panels. Architects are then tasked with transforming this flat building material into functional designs. ACM has the ability to be fabricated, routed, cut and curved. It is lightweight and can be manipulated into a variety of shapes. What this flat panel needs is an architect’s foresight to transform it.

3A Composites USA is pleased to announce that Alucobond® aluminum composite material (ACM) 3-D Building Information Modeling (BIM) files now are available to architects and designers on the new BIMsmith Forge cloud-based platform by Anguleris Technologies.

In a collaborative effort between Dark Arkitekter and Zinc Interior Architects, the former site of the Oslo airport was transformed into a cluster of office and residential spaces known as Fornebuporten.