Concrete at Stylepark

Concrete

Textile reinforced concrete, self-cleaning concrete, self-compacting concrete - innovations are definitely not in short supply. The past decades have seen many new advances and improvements. Concrete has, alongside steel, often been hailed as the material of Modernist architecture thanks to its use in the refined building designs of the 1950s as well as in the brutalist structures of the 1960s. It features in minimalist designs just as it does in gigantic dams and bridges with incredible spans. Given that the majority of these projects would have been inconceivable without it, concrete has always been regarded as a miracle material by many, yet it has likewise met with criticism for aesthetic reasons.

The Stylepark Material Edition on "concrete" features a selection of the most important types of concrete - as regards both material qualities and possible surface finishes.
Concrete offers unbounded opportunities for design - and they include a wide range of different surface effects: Concrete can be dyed, ground, milled, shaped, printed, painted, polished, washed or mixed with other materials. For example, grinding concrete after it has been cast produces polished surfaces with a terrazzo-like feel. And all you need apply are superhydrophobic or superhydrophilic coatings to the surface to create self-cleaning concretes. Even photo motifs can be transferred onto façade surfaces, in which case the theme becomes a permanent part of the surface of the concrete.

The Material Edition will showcase many other types of concrete including, for example, glass-foam concrete, translucent concrete, colored and recycled concrete. Be inspired by the sheer wealth of possible uses!

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