A design concept and model by Samuel Sze.
Formwork is an essential but wasteful aspect of concrete construction. Design of formwork focuses primarily on the qualities of the casted object. At the end of a project, the mold is discarded, surviving only in a fossil negative of its former existence.
HYPOTHESIS: Concrete exists in an intimate relationship with mold during casting. By considering the mold both as castor and as an integral part of the final product, the concrete and formwork can create a material, structural, and textural hybrid. The product can be both warm and cold, heavy and light, rigid and plastic, hard and soft. Concrete registers the form, surface, and volume of the mold, and yet the mold offers contrasting material qualities which can give the resulting form a renewed vitality.
