Erzsebet square benchesErzsébet tér, Budapest, HungaryErzsebet square benches, Erzsébet tér, Budapest, Hungary
12pcs of illuminated concrete benches were settled in the very heart of the Hungarian capital.
The pieces are made of 80mm thick Litracon pXL panels and can be lit up by night.
World’s first commercially available transparent concrete Litracon® is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks. Due to the small size of the fibres, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate. In this manner, the result is not only two materials - glass in concrete - mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well. Litracon® is a fully handmade product which results an exceptional and individual pattern of light in each piece.
The patent protected Litracon® products present the phenomenon of light transmitting concrete in the form of widely applicable new building materials.They have been developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi since 2001.
Glass Fibre Optic Classic Litracon
Litracon pXL-plastic/concrete
transmissive
concrete
adjective
existing in a material or physical form; not abstract:
a building material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, cement, and water, which can be spread or poured into moulds and forms a stone-like mass on hardening:
"slabs of concrete"
verb
cover (an area) with concrete:
"the precious English countryside may soon be concreted over"
