Library at Eberswalde

For our Art of Building group, the five of us decided to study the Library at Eberswalde, Germany by Herzog & De Meuron. Our class was focusing on signage and we were all interested in screen printing, so we decided to study this building. The process includes screen printing a retarder onto the plexiglass with the desired image and then mixing the concrete and pouring it into the mold. Wait 48 hours and then voila! You have a concrete slab with your screen printed image. Our building's model is a combination of plexiglass for the windows and matte-board for the concrete surfaces which have been xyloled with the images from the original building.