Concrete is often labelled as a brutal, boring and unsustainble building material. What if that is not the case?

Remo Pedreschi, Professor of Architectural Technology at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA), explains how an innovative student project has been using flexible "fabric formwork" to impove the carbon footprint of concrete - often by up to 35%.
In doing so, their technique has the potential to change our perceptions of this unappreciated material by casting architecturally interesting, optimised structures that beg to be touched.

For more information on the project, visit http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/sustainability/themes/climate-change/research/fabric-formwork

For an explanation of fabric formwork, visit http://ow.ly/4mIX5C

ESALA's website: http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/architecture-landscape-architecture

Music: "Lovely, Lonely" by YEYEY, licensed under CC-BY-NC: http://ow.ly/4mIW79