25th
March
2004
Concrete casts new light in dull rooms
“The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the worldís most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott to create a new type of concrete that transmits light. A wall made of ‘LitraCon’ allegedly has the strength of traditional concrete but thanks to an embedded array of glass fibers can display a view of the outside world, such as the silhouette of a tree, for example.”