Flour sacks emptied by Runner&Stone's baker were re-purposed as the formwork for nearly 1,000 custom fabricated gently swollen concrete building units. Each "belly block" is uniquely shaped forming billowing walls of concrete that thread through the restaurant, up the stairwell and into the residences above.
Status: Built
Location: Brooklyn, NY, US
Additional Credits: Design: Latent Productions
Belly Block Crew: Laura Buck, Jangwon Choi, Sean Dawson, Peter Endris, Miles Fujiki, Hajeong Lim ,Martin Lodman, Marc Mascarello, Michael Ong, Natasa Papadi, Muchan Park, Alan Paukman, Katerina Petrou, Jonathan Requillo, Bridget Rice, Sarah Ruel-Bergeron, Tom Duffy, Eugene Tin Yu Kao, Anna Vander Zwaag, Salvador Velasquez, Alvaro Velosa, Margaux Young
Photography: Latent, Ho Kyung Lee, Margaux Young"
