Architecture The Wondrous Stuff
posted by August 20 at 14:49 PM
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It’s wondrous stuff, - concrete infused with glass fibre. Truly beautiful. Imagine a building made of this?! The strength and exterior texture of concrete, but a lightness imbued by, well, light itself. At night, with lights on inside, shadowy projections of the inhabitants would be visible moving across the exterior of the building … Sexy.
The inventor is Hungarian:
Áron Losonczi [says that] in theory, a wall structure built out of the light-transmitting concrete can be a couple of meters thick as the fibers work without any loss in light up to 20 m… Load-bearing structures can also be built from the blocks as glass fibers do not have a negative effect on the well-known high compressive strength of concrete.
Who is behind the wondrous wall?
Whose woods these are?
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Gee someone's been all ups into concrete today
I think it's Amanda Knox.
@2 I was going to guess Natalie Merchant.
My Mother the War
She borders the pavement...
Whose woods those are I think I know. The owner lives in town, though.
Carry on.
stuff came out years ago.
It's pretty cool, but it wouldn't work that well for load-bearing walls, because all you'd see would be the rebar. It would look like a jail cell. Besides, how do they cast this stuff to make the fibers line up? I'm guessing that process doesn't work when the concrete is just poured into a form.
Must be a pain to maintain after the inevitable tagger does in a wall or two.
yay for hungary! finally a legacy other than back hair.
A beautiful new means to create architectural works of art, and all I can think of is the tent scene in the second Austin Powers film. Floor-to-ceiling curtains, then?
Im Club Z uses this shit for their walls Im moving away.
Cool stuff. I'd hate to work in that office building, though.
"Hey, I finally got a window office! Oh wait. Fuck."
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