BlingCrete™ is winner of the International Tunneling & Underground Spaces Award 2014

BlingCrete™ is winner of the the International Tunneling & Underground Spaces Award. The award recognises excellence in the delivery of international tunnelling and underground space projects. The prize was awarded on Dec 4 at The Grosvenor House in London. BlingCrete™ has won in the Category Product / Equipment Innovation of...

BlingCrete™ is presenting the new features “Nearfield Communication”, “TouchCrete” and “DysCrete” for the first time at BAU 2015, 19th – 24th Jan 2015 in Munich. Exhibition at Innovation Platform Concrete/ Hall A2/ Stand 328. Lecture: Forum B0/ Di.20.01.2015/ 12 Uhr

BlingCrete™ is presenting the new features “Nearfield Communication”, “TouchCrete” and “DysCrete” for the first time at the innovation platform CONCRETE, BAU 2015 Munich, 19th – 24th Jan 2015, Hall A2, Stand 328. Lecture: Forum B0/ Di.20.01.2015/ 12 Uhr/ Putting the Vision into Practice – Prof. Heike Klussmann

BlingCrete™ at BAU 2013 – The World’s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems

BlingCrete™ will be exhibiting at BAU 2013. The World’s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems takes place from January 14 to 19, 2013 at Messe München exhibition center. Once again the event is expected to attract around 2,000 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and approximately 240,000 visitors from...

BlingCrete™ – Giant Seating Furniture for Student’s Residential Complex

The Siegmunds Hof Student’s Residential Complex was built in 1961 and lies near the university nestled between the Spree and Tiergarten districts. By popular request from residents and other students, the commissioned architect’s office “Susanne Hofmann Architekten BDA” developed the versatile domestic shapes and ground plans, as well as a...

BlingCrete™ at Material Vision

Material Vision – the trade fair revolving around the subject of materials for product development, design and architecture – is a platform for the professional dialogue between the materials industry and the creative sector. “With a special joint stand, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und...

Changing from a passive…

The BlingCrete™ surface is activated depending on the position of surface, light source, and recipient. The reflective effect can be perceived at a certain moment. The concrete changes from a passive to an active state, so to speak. It is not important whether the source is daylight…

…to an active state

…or artificial light positioned in a targeted way. Even several light sources with different colors and positions can be oriented to the surface in the space. BlingCrete allows to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive or interactive environment by lowtech analogue modes. Despite their flatness, the two-dimensional surfaces...

BlingCrete™ anthracite + tight grid

//Name: BlingCrete™ / Characteristics: “Tight grid” (retroreflective) / Matrix: High performance or ultra high performance concrete / Matrix colour: Anthracite / Sizes of glass beads: 3 mm (alkali resistent) / Surface layout: Tight Grid / Element shapes: Plane, angular or rounded (concave /convex)

BlingCrete™ green + random

//Name: BlingCrete™ / Characteristics: “Snake skin” (retroreflective) / Matrix: High performance or ultra high performance concrete / Matrix colour: Green / Sizes of glass beads: 2 mm (alkali resistent) / Surface layout: Random distribution, monomodal / Element shapes: Plane, angular or rounded (concave /convex)

BlingCrete™ black + tight grid

//Name: BlingCrete™ / Characteristics: “Black grid” (retroreflective) / Matrix: High performance or ultra high performance concrete / Matrix colour: Anthracite (i. e. black) / Sizes of glass beads: 3 mm (alkali resistent) / Surface layout: Grid / Element shapes: Plane, angular or rounded (concave /convex)

There is not one BlingCrete™, but several

BlingCrete™ offers high design potential, that derives from the production process. Basically, the building process and use are comparable to known procedural manners of prefabricated elements. Part of BlingCrete™ are novel High Performance and Ultra High Performance Concretes that are used: With these the adhesive composition of the glass beads...

Light Reflecting Concrete

On the level of materials science research, BlingCrete™ represents a new genre of materials with its own logic of effect that cannot be described simply in terms of the usual categories of heavy and light or form, construction, and surface. The material, also known as light-reflecting concrete, combines the positive characteristics of concrete (fire safety, solidity, building methods) with those of retroreflection. Retroreflecting surfaces send incoming rays of light (sunlight or artificial light) back precisely in the direction of the source of light. This optical phenomenon is produced by embedding glass microspheres in the substrate material. BlingCrete™ creates immersive environments by lowtech analogue modes.
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+++ BlingCrete™: 2011 DesignPlus Award for very innovative materials by the German Design Council +++ Nominated for the German Design Award 2012 +++ 2012 winner of iF materials gold award +++ 2014 nominated for the Gaia Award +++ 2014 winner of the International Tunneling & Underground Spaces Award +++

Light Reflecting Concrete

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