B/C Art

Ever since I designed and had my concrete house constructed, I wanted to create some personal concrete art pieces. So, as usual, it took a few years before I allowed myself some time to start working on it.

Concept and Design

The concept was simple: a geometric shape (a disc) made out of concrete with a translucent resin core, standing on a stand constructed from reinforcing steel bars. And even though it took me about five years to get going, the concept never changed.

If you wonder what the name refers to… It’s (obviously) Concrete Art, concrete in Dutch is Beton and B/C is short for because. You surely can piece it together 😇

Constructing B/C Art

Creating B/C Art was rather straightforward: create a concrete cylinder, fill it with resin. Still I had some new material to work with: steel bars, a larger volume of both concrete and resin. I could however reuse a lot of previous experience and materials.

Using my laser cutter I created two circular cut-outs to hold a piece EVA foam, thus creating the outer circular mold. A piece of PVC tubing kept the central cylinder concrete-free. With three pieces of steel bars, I created some reinforcing structure for the concrete. Finally some scrap wood helped in setting up a complete mold, ready to be filled with concrete.

24 hours later it was unmolding time and after a bit of struggling while keepting the resin inside the center piece, the resin core was also done. The final step was adding a wooden base. For now I used some available scrap piece. I’m going to replace it with scaffolding wood soon.

The Result

As always, I had a lot to learn. This make was no different. Because I knew, this was merely an experiment and the goal is to make more versions of this design, I didn’t mind things go (very) wrong sometimes. All these lessons learned go into the next once and for now, this first B/C Art is truly a nice OG.

The Future

So, this first version is not the last one. I plan on doing a lot of these. So, check back for the next versions, as I will add pictures of each of them right here.

B/C Art 001