(Archive) Synthesizing Neostone

Make things like Earth

The concrete industry is at the root of several environmental issues. Can humans develop new manufacturing methods using 'geopolymerization' with industrial wastes? With this project, I am working on both the imagination and realization of alternative building materials, using ‘unwanted minerals’ to close material flows within our urban ecosystem.

From geopolymerization, I create 'Neostones' from powder of marble, lime pellets, sand and slag. The Neostone raises awareness from the perspective of the material, by learning from the Earth, by blurring the boundary between earth-made and human-made, by mimicking geo-processes and translates this into new manufacturing mechanisms.

Neo Scholar's stone

In Asia, there is a culture of harvesting natural-formed stones from lakes or caves and bringing them into gardens. In his practice, he uses some real stones as references and turns them into digital models first. With the plan exported digitally, he starts to make the sculpture by his own hands.

The collection is attempting to blur the boundary between natural forms and man-made forms. Moreover, it shows a possibility of reusing artificial wastes instead of stealing natural resources continuously.