Sculptural Building Forms and Stromberg GFRC

For buildings which are sculptural in form,  Stromberg GFRC offers the designer several advantages.

• Greater ability to create organic expressions without constraints of weight and structural support.
• More freedom in the design of the façade.
• Ability to easily vary volumes, surfaces, lines and differences in planes
• Stromberg GFRC gives the designer the ability to create fluid surfaces
• Allows the designer to focus on space, structure, and proportion, not straight lines.
• Stromberg GFRC provides the designer sculptural freedom and flexibility in shape, texture and color.
• Allows the team to both maintain the schedule and keep costs contained.

Among the most important properties of GFRC is its mold-ability.
Like sculptor’s clay in a designer’s hands, GFRC allows architects an unlimited range of shapes.  This ability to be shaped frees the architect from traditional architectural restrictions of cubic shapes, flat walls and plane surfaces: Stromberg GFRC shapes may be curved, undulating or rounded.

Complex GFRC shapes and configurations will not add a premium to the cost as long as there are sufficient repetitions. Often, sculpting  the GFRC unit enhances the piece’s structural capacity.

The moldability of Stromberg GFRC allows the designer to:

• Create a freeform shape in GFRC
• Create a bullnose
• Soften a building return
• Form a circular window or opening
• Create a column wrap around a structural member
• Create an undulating surface
• Form a convex building
• Form corners
• Form domes
• Create arches

What can we help you create? Call us at 903-454-0904 for design assistance, details and samples.