Favorite material

Feb 15, 2008 5 Replies

What would you say is your favorite architectural material (1) to use in your own designs and (2) to see used in designs? Why/what do you like about it (or them)?



I guess it'd also help to also differntiate residential-project materials from large-scale/commercial maerials.


No scientific survey, I'm just curious ;)



Photons. It's all about the play of light and dark.

R

Is this related to the 'hope filling the center of columns' reputed to have been mentioned by Louis Kahn? T

rebar and concrete, because it keeps food on the table. :-)

Get atta here! (pushes rebarguy in the shoulder) ;P

(...Problem is, you need a jackhammer to eat.)

"Don" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news5.newsguy.com:

It *is* versatile. I suppose you could make just about any shape, given enough of the stuff. create a skeleton of any shape you want that coudl then be covered with various other materials.

SOme interesting and/or bizarre paper sculpture:

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OK, too way-out for living spaces, but the point is about plasticity of form so to speak.

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