Throughout the 20th century, a number of innovators experimented with fabric as a flexible membrane for the support of fluid concrete, forming structural members. Significant among the early ...

When a disaster strikes, it’s often difficult to get shelters up in time for displaced residents. Enter Concrete Canvas’s new Concrete Cloth, a durable waterproof building material made of cement ...

A paper by D. Veenendaal et al. 1 gives a detailed historical perspective of innovators who have proceeded us using fabric as part of their building forming systems, as hydraulic and geotechnical ...

Milliken recently debuted a flexible fabric that allows for concrete installations on slopes, in water, and in other hard to reach places—without the need for molds or mixing. Concrete Cloth features ...

A fabric that hardens like concrete after it's soaked in water could provide emergency housing around the world. Concrete Cloth has been developed over the past three years by British company Concrete ...

Say it's raining on the day of a board meeting, but you still want to bike to work—and afterward ride to that new restaurant that opened downtown—without changing your clothes. Now you can.

Flexible concrete cloth has made possible the swooping shapes of this console designed by Portland-based Neal Aronowitz. The Whorl Console is created using a patented material by UK company Concrete ...

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German designer Florian Schmid experiments with the comfort of cloth and the cool, harness of concrete in a new series of stools. Concrete canvas, essentially cloth impregnated with concrete, hardens ...