Schokbeton Pre-cast Concrete Recipes and Changing Aesthetics
Wido Quist (TU Delft - Heritage & Architecture)
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Abstract
Neither pre-cast concrete nor the company Schokbeton itself is typical for the period 1975-2000, but the paper material saved from the former laboratory of the Dutch pre-cast concrete factory holds an intensive record of concrete recipes and references to buildings from the period 1945-2000. The recipes together with a large number of sample castings left on the factory site in 2015 after the bankruptcy of the company shed an interesting light development of concrete aesthetics. (Fig. 1) [...]