Concrete is the most popular material that has been used in many famous architectures around the world this present day. Many architects, from Le Corbusier, Louis Khan to Tadao Ando have chosen this material in their several projects. What is make concrete become an interesting in architectural design?.
Concrete is a strong material. It can combine the tensile strength of steel with the compressive strength of stone. It usually has been used for structural engineering to form the structure of any architectures. Cast concrete has been developed to building material since early 20th century, now it has been popular material in architecture with its interesting texture, colour, toughness, lasting long and can create various form of architectures.
Le Corbusier was the early architect to use concrete to be material of his design project as can be seen in many famous project. His works also became the master of concrete architecture to be learned in many architecture school in the present.
In the post modern period, Tadao Ando,the Japanese architect who has concrete using style as his image. His design character is unique with combination of Japanese style and sense of using concrete material in his every project.
As I was looking at Concrete architecture that related to my columbarium or memorial project, I found an interesting using concrete material to create memorial space with interesting form of architecture. This project, the architect has understand the structure and characteristic of concrete really well then he developed to his design.
Canada Holocaust Monument design competition by David Ajaye and Ron Arad
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