Board Marked Concrete Walls

The glazing which also runs along the northern side slots between shorter perpendicular board marked concrete walls.
Board marked concrete walls. Board formed concrete is the name for a process of patterning concrete that leaves a wood grain image on the finished face of the concrete. Before plastic and metal wood was the forming material of choice for precast and cast in place vertical concrete. Oct 24 2013 explore xiang s board board formed concrete on pinterest. It has texture structure and rugged beauty all at once.
Architects love it but it s not an easy detail to get right. It is composed of 15 randomly placed walls that are made from board marked concrete with a highly textured finish nodding to the wood and soil construction of traditional kawayas. When concrete walls gets placed. This process helps eliminate the tooling marks from the fabrication process as well as all the dents and dings that might be on the boards just from the process.
Watch to see how my concrete craftsma. The concrete textured by the imprints of wooden boards is intended to.