‘the objective of the competition: to explore and exploit the limits of the involvement of concrete with other resources to create new construction materials and applications where concrete forms the basis but is not the only element at play. It is therefore a question of finding conditions of compatibility and integration –we could say a “complicity”– between concrete and something else in order to create a new material or system that adopts other characteristics. We look for concrete surpassing its “original” performance to the point of becoming a new material in and of its self with contemporary spatial and experiential consequences. Behind the collective work that the competition evokes, there is an interest of generating practical implementations of theoretical topics on architecture as the construction of a second nature or second life. Creating architectural applications and systems for a world that needs to seriously reconsider the material conditions with which construction and demolition takes places.’

The Concrete Design Book on Implicit Performance documents all laureate's competition entries as well as the Master Class results. Furthermore it continues the investigation into Implicit Performance through interviews and essays.

You can obtain a copy of the Concrete Design Book on Implicit Performance through the national secretaries (as long as available).
Juan Herreros, curator