Check out the flying concrete...
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this is incredible... flying concrete never flew so high...
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Interesting link Kris. The site's info about Mexican river trips is interesting too.
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amazing. i wonder how complex the formwork must be!
however, as a total aside, this is not my cup of tea. i rarely use curves in my designs, unless there is an imperative reason to do so.
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I really like this guy's work.
I'm not sure I would use the terminology that the man uses, though...at first glance this looks much like a very creative revival of the old "ferroconcrete" idea of light rebar armature surrounded by multiple layers of very light wire mesh (like "chicken-wire" fencing material), which is packed with fine- or no-aggregate Portland concrete and ultimately smoothed over with yet more Portland. And he blends the system with the idea of fiber-reinforced concrete mixes, something I have experimented with myself. The hybrid technique is more of an additive form of sculpture than typical concrete casting, and there is minimal formwork...just much hand-troweling and smoothing.
In this part of the world, ferroconcrete was used for boat hulls for a while, although it seems to have fallen out of favor.
--Lewis
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up to you james...
the architecture and wanting to talk about the SU possibilitites here...
doesn't matter where...
the forming is done with rebar...
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