'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