Analysis and Application of Concrete’s Aesthetic Characteristics

Abstract:

As the most common material, concrete shows one of the most essential beauty, with the natural appearance of calm charm, innate, some heavy and elegant modern building materials can not be replicated and comparable. Material itself has a soft feel, rigid sense of warmth, cold and flu, and not only the spirit of the human impact on the senses, and can express the emotion building. So architects believe that this is a noble simplicity, seems to be simple, in fact, more than the magnificent artistic effect.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 598)
• Pages: 459-462
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.598.459
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Yan Chu, Zhen Zhen
• Keywords: Colored Concrete, Decorative Concrete, Fair-Faced Concrete, Stamp Concrete

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