The Homicide Of A Building Material

Context Before Industrial Revolution, people used locally available building materials to construct. Since late 18th century, advancement of transportation, material and information propagation technologies have changed the traditional localized relationship between building materials and architecture to a collective tendency of

THE RECALL OF MATERIALITY – Rehabilitating Concrete

Observation Dirty, unfinished and cheap are the impressions of Hong Kong people towards concrete. In fact, reinforced concrete is the major structural building material in our city and it supports the economic activities, culture and everyday lives of Hong Kong

The Recall of Materiality – Rehabilitating Concrete in Hong Kong

Rehabilitating Concrete in Hong Kong

Thesis Statement   Observation Dirty, unfinished and cheap are the impressions of Hong Kong people towards concrete. In fact, reinforced concrete is the major structural building material in our city and it supports the economic activities, culture and everyday lives

The Locality of Reinforced Concrete in architecture – the cultural, political and spiritual value of reinforced concrete

The power of reinforced concrete Concrete as a building material is important to modern human civilization. The technique of making concrete has once been forgotten after Roman period. The use of concrete gradually return between 1300s to mid-17th century. In

The Locality of Reinforced Concrete

Concrete as a building material contributes a lot to human civilization. The scale, landscape, density of cities will be very different if concrete is never discovered. The structural and formal complexity/flexibility as well as the scale of reinforced concrete makes