'fossils' by ofir zucker

detail of a soft fabric mold


'fossils' is a production method for casting concrete, developed by recent industrial design
graduate of shenkar college in tel aviv, ofir zucker.

the project offers a technique based on casting concrete into soft fabric molds. this method
continuously gives the concrete a different and new language of organic, flowing surfaces
with a warm texture, providing more formal freedom - molds unchained by the technical
considerations of undercuts. 'fossils' enables one to design concrete products with precise shapes
on the one hand, but also random shapes on the other, all created by the weight of the
concrete within the mold.

in each case, the soft mold stretches, folds and creates distortions.
a series of casts into the same mold will lead to similar, but not identical objects.



edge detail of a soft fabric mold



resulting concrete form






detail of concrete cast





this technique provides detailed textures from fabric



a molded concrete coffee table



detail



series of 'fossilized' objects