Part 1. About flexible formworks : On flexibility : Control
New language of form --
The history of fabric formwork / Diederik Veenendaal : The inventions of the fabric-formed floor
The wider potential of fabric formwork
The Ctesiphon system and its legacy
Shell structures and the cost of formwork
Architectural expression
Marine and geotechnical applications of fabric formworks
Contemporary fabric-formed architecture --
Structural intelligence in flexible materials / Edward Allen, John Ochsendorf, and Mark West : Funicular forms
Flow of forces in solids
Following curved force flows in fabric-formed structures
Pressurized membranes: a co-incidence of skin
Materials savings in flexible fabric moulds --
Part 2. Construction : Introduction : Flat-sheet moulds
Models
Subtly different skills --
Textiles : The basics : General considerations
Material behavior (mechanical properties)
Textile structure
Preferred formwork fabric types (woven polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) fabrics)
Coated vs. uncoated PP and PE textiles
Fabric handling
Slack-sheet moulds
Energized (tensioned) formwork sheets
Sewing
Concrete's constituent parts: mix designs
Special considerations with permeable fabric moulds --
Connections / Mark West and Ronnie Araya : General considerations
Fabric-to-fabric connections
Fabric-to-frame connections
Other connections
Edge-frame connections against curved fabric sheets
Scaffolding strategies
Reinforcing --
Tips & tricks : Water tests
Welding burns
Drawing on plastic fabrics
Captured fabric
Undercut or "keyed" rigidified fabric moulds
Cutting, and finishing plastic rope
Cutting plastic fabrics
Heat-setting thermoplastic sheets
Air bubbles (bug holes)
Fitting rigid frames to fabric-formed concrete surfaces
Rope tricks for mechanical advantage in pre-tensioning
Complex surface geometry made simple
On shaping impactos
A note on tape
Flexible mould edges
External vibration
A note on filling permeable moulds
On filling coated-fabric moulds
External manipulations of a pressurized mould
Fragility of recently set concrete in flexible moulds
On the robustness of flexible moulds: repair during casting --
Cast-in-place column moulds : Pressure and fabric-tension in a column mould
Commercially available column moulds
Custom-made column moulds --
Cast-in-place wall moulds : "Quilt-point" method
Frame-restraint method
Zero-waste wall formwork
Bulge-wall method --
Open trough moulds : Foundation formworks
Variable-section open trough moulds --
Non-pressurized moulds / Mark West and Ronnie Araya : Open pan fabric formworks
Vibrating concrete in permeable, open pan moulds
Hanging sheet moulds
Funicular vaults and thin-shells, double curvature in shells --
Truss and branching forms : Naturally formed branching shapes
Summation: construction with fabric formworks.