Milliken recently debuted a flexible fabric that allows for concrete installations on slopes, in water, and in other hard to reach places—without the need for molds or mixing. Concrete Cloth features ...

A fabric that hardens like concrete after it's soaked in water could provide emergency housing around the world. Concrete Cloth has been developed over the past three years by British company Concrete ...

Need a semi permanent structure? Well this concrete cloth by UK-based company Concrete Canvas’s has just won material of the year 2009. Once the cloth shelter is erected the hardening process is then ...

(New York City) The medium was the message on February 4th when the global materials consultancy Material ConneXion hosted a celebration for the winner and 11 honorable mentions of its first annual ...

KHQ.COM - An amazing new technology could change the way we respond to natural disasters and help with relief efforts worldwide. A new fabric made out of cement is completely flexible to start, but ...

Concrete Cloth makes the perfect addition to your apocalyptic shopping list. The flexible cloth is easily transported, but transforms into a sturdy concrete shelter after it gets wet. UK company ...

A paper by D. Veenendaal et al. 1 gives a detailed historical perspective of innovators who have proceeded us using fabric as part of their building forming systems, as hydraulic and geotechnical ...

This article was taken from the June 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

German designer Florian Schmid experiments with the comfort of cloth and the cool, harness of concrete in a new series of stools. Concrete canvas, essentially cloth impregnated with concrete, hardens ...