Fabric formwork

Brendon Carlin and fellow students at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory have experimented with liquid plaster set in stitched lycra moulds. Called Grompies, the project involved translating a computer-generated pattern into stitched lines across the fabric using a sewing machine and by hand. These textured fabric canvasses are then pulled taut and fixed to

fabric formwork for hypar concrete

Designer's manual for concrete structure optimization with fabric formwork

This would be my precedent. Unlimited variations due to the fabric flexibility. Check out more from CAST.

Since I have been building a number of rammed earth with fabric formwork, I have found that the technology is honestly revealing the innate property of material – soil, showing a great potential to improve aesthetical and functional quality of rammed earth. In this blog, I am going to explain about the construction process of recently completed two fabric formed rammed earth walls and what I have discovered.The size of the models is 250mm (width) x 600mm (length) x 1000mm (height), which is…

Read "The Fabric Formwork Book Methods for Building New Architectural and Structural Forms in Concrete" by Mark West available from Rakuten Kobo. Concrete is the most used man-made material in the world and is the fundamental physical medium for most of the world’s ...

Table 1 Weight, cost and production/assembly time of KnitCandela’s fabric formwork and concrete. - "Structural design, digital fabrication and construction of the cable-net and knitted formwork of the KnitCandela concrete shell"

The use of fabric as the primary construction material of a two storey house is almost unheard of. To get the effect of fabric, a different, more stable material has to be used- Fabric formed concr…