LUCCON has created a translucent concrete product that is thermally insulated. This might allow the material to be used on facades to allow diffused daylighting into the building where an opaque material would be used otherwise.
From the LUCCON press release:
Translucent concrete can be considered one of the most beautiful, noble and mysterious product innovations in the last years. Translucent concrete cannot be described, one has to experience this mystical material in order to understand it.
LUCCON Lightconcrete is a combination of modern concrete and embedded fiber optic cables. Fiber upon fiber light is projected through the construction element – for example images beyond a wall appear pointwise or digitized on the opposite side, regardless if they are shadows, light, colors, projections or displays. The dimensions of the construction element are basically irrelevant with one exception:
With increasing thickness the experienced image on the hidden side appears increasingly peculiar and strange.
Photo credits: LUCCON
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