A famous architect ho worked with reinfocred concrete in his villa savoye was le corbusier.
The notion for this house model came from construction techniques.I am intrigues by how simple hings such as steel rods can re in force concrete in buildings and structural work of large scale. I had previously made a house from ice and wanted to apply strength to its structure in a way that is both physically and aesthetically beneficial. Grass was something that i thought would work whilst looking great at the same time.
THE PROCESS
1) i used my gellflex mold as a way of creating the house shape/form. It worked before with clay and water so applying grass as a strength method should work too. The grass blades came from my back garden and were simply wedged into the mold with slight pressure and force.
2) As soon as i had enough grass in my mold i applied water to the content. When put in cold temperatures the molecular structure of the water will change drastically ultimately transforming the water from a liquid to a solid (ice). The time taken for this process can vary but i found that after 3 hrs in the freezer it was strong enough to hold as a solid house form ")
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