While looking at Organic Architect's 2007 Awards, I came across the Erosion Sink again and thought, "I'm glad I blogged about that a few months ago." Well, turns out I didn't. It may just be a sink and there is pretty good chance water would splatter when you use it, but this is a piece of art and you deserve to see it.
The sink is built by Gore Design and is made with eco-friendly materials. Unfortunately, all of the posts I could find are similar to mine (eco-friendly and fucking awesome!), but I'm quite curious about how this was created. Maybe this post will be the tipping point and HGTV will interview the designers for me. Get to it, people.
03/28/07 3:11 PM
Beautiful, but it would make me think of beach erosion every time I use it.
03/28/07 4:53 PM
And oh what fun to clean it!
03/28/07 10:08 PM
When I first saw it, I thought it was high in the center like a plateau, then my brain figured it out and I see it correctly.
I like it.
04/01/07 8:23 PM
I can't say for certain how they do it, but I've made similar forms out of concrete. I assume they have a rectangular mold that has layers of a thin material stacked up (inverse of the depression) to form the bowl. The individual layers would be rough cut (maybe torn) and then smoothed a bit or cut from a topographical map kind of pattern. Fill with concrete, allow to sure an viola! Flip it over and you have a sink.
04/08/07 4:30 PM
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for the post!
Alright, time to dispell a few myth's and misconceptions. This sink does not splash as it is shown. The owner of this particular sink used a Kohler wall mount with a 90 degree downspout. Although it's hard to decipher from the pic's, each leyer transition is actually very smooth, there are no tight corners or crevices for dirt to accumulate. To clean this sink simply mist it with cleaner and wipe with a clothe.
I can't tell you how the mold was made, other than we used a little magic and a dab of voodoo. However, I can tell you that it was not made by "layering" material, as this would not allow us to transition the layers or provide a correct slope for drainage. A few other companies have copied our design, using the method suggested, arriving at a very different finished product. Their sinks don't have the organic aesthetic nor the functionality of our sink.
Again, thanks for the post! Have a great Easter weekend!
Take care,
Brandon Gore
04/08/07 9:55 PM
Thanks for taking the time to respond Brandon! Even if you didn't explain how it was made, you got me closer to the answer, which I appreciate. I'm excited to see what you come up with next.
04/12/07 11:51 PM
You're welcome Matt! Take a look at our website if you haven't lately. I uploaded a few pic's of recent projects. I have been terrible about documenting our pieces, but I am working with a photographer to have our past works shot, which will be loaded on the website as the images come in (most of the images on the website were taken by me, and photography is not my forte, lol).