Tutors:

Pekka Ijas (FI), Ville Mellin (FI), Eero Alho (FI)

Workshop description:

CONCRETEconstruction is a workshop focusing deeply into concrete as a building material. In the workshop the participants will learn all comprehensive features for the use of concrete, from the most basic casting to steel-reinforced concrete, and both metal and plastic fibered concrete, as well as how to make graphic, coloured and patterned concrete objects using diversily shaped molds, pigments, surface retarders etc. In the workshop the goal is to cast designed, high quality objects in small groups around the sandy beaches of Cádiz. Wherease sand is the main ingredient (80%) of concrete, the obvious way to manufacture concrete along the coastlines is to use the local sand, in this case excactly in the beaches. The objects should serve the public with their functionality and ingenuity, a rough example given could be e.g. a small bench or a stylished sunbed on a beach, cast directly on the location, using the sand from the beach and cement as the raw-material. The tutors are all specialists in small scale concrete crafting, and have been educated in the usage of concrete as a part of their architectural degree studies in Aalto University. Hence they are capable of guiding the participants into hands-on concrete construction. New techniques, textures, special materials, graphics, plastic-fibre-reinforcement etc. provide compelling and versatile capacities in imaginative use of concrete.