Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to proceed in terms of specifying.
Board formed concrete wall specification.
Board form concrete walls mix well with glass and metal in modern house designs such as this project risinger built with alterstudio architecture of austin texas.
Board form concrete panels beautifully combine the movement depth and rawness of both wood and concrete into one product.
The design team wants to use horizontal board formed concrete for the architectural concrete walls for an upcoming project.
A board formed concrete wall in a brewery.
After looking at formliners they ve decided they want to use actual board forms.
Board formed concrete is the name for a process of patterning concrete that leaves a wood grain image on the finished face of the concrete.
Before plastic and metal wood was the forming material of choice for precast and cast in place vertical concrete.
Today some people go out of their way to recreate the old fashioned look board formed concrete.
So our walls were indeed cast in place something essential considering it required 6 or 8 trucks and well over 200 yards of concrete.
What made our project somewhat unique is that our walls were board formed meaning we used cedar boards instead of smooth plywood which lends a pretty distinct look and texture.