Gallery: An Experimental Building Technique That Makes Concrete Look Like Skeletons
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Casting concrete is one of the strongest, cheapest ways to erect a structure. But creating complex concrete structures presents new challenges.
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A group of graduate students at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London have created a technique for affordably building intricate concrete structures. They're calling it Augmented Skin.
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Their method involves building inner scaffolding with sticks, stretching fabric around it, and pouring concrete into the flexible, twisty shapes.
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The results look uncannily like giant skeletons.
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Unlike traditional concrete molds, which really only work for simple uniform structures, Augmented Skin allows for the possibility of wildly detailed and unique pieces.
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It’s a low-cost technique: all you need are wood sticks, fabric, concrete, and coating for casting, for which the group used PVA glue.
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So far the students have created prototype structures as big as gazebos.
