materials Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/materials/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:27:29 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Most common building material in Goa is a stone called laterite https://ounodesign.com/2012/02/14/goa-laterite-buildings-walls/ https://ounodesign.com/2012/02/14/goa-laterite-buildings-walls/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:27:29 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=13436

What appear to be red bricks below (at left in the photo, and on the wall surrounding the yellow building) are in fact quarried blocks of laterite, a porous red stone common in India and other countries.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2012/02/14/goa-laterite-buildings-walls/feed/ 5 Cast Concrete Shopfront in São Paolo https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/27/cast-concrete-shopfront-in-sao-paolo/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/27/cast-concrete-shopfront-in-sao-paolo/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:37:31 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=3476

This is the Mi Casa VolB showroom in São Paolo, by Marcio Kogan. I love cast concrete, especially here where there’s no attempt to embellish or hide the structure.

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