Concrete Wall

I get really excited when I see what can be done with concrete, not necessarily always at things that I particularly even like but just its sheer potential and then robust solidness when that potential is realised. There is something reassuringly real about concrete. Came across this project the other day in Architecture Today and got well excited, could make such a cool retaining wall or a bench or something like that.

This blog was taken from
http://heartlandscw.blogspot.com/2010/11/crushed-wall-sample-unveiled.html
dated from  18/11/2010

Artist Walter Jack is working on the art commission that will lead visitors in to Heartlands from Pool Village in to the main site.

The 24 metre long Crushed Wall will be 2.8 metres at its highest point and 1 metre at its lowest. Walter's Crushed Wall is inspired by Cornish geology, a sample can be seen in the above photograph. Local concrete works Ladds, are involved as the wall will be cast in concrete. A rubber mould will be used to cast the wall, which will create the crumples and wavy effect of the structure.

Posted by Heartlands Cornwall at 12:31