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Tetrapod

The shape of dread

Spall 005: From the tetrapod to the lattice

Tetrapods in curing phase, cast on-site in steel molds. Each unit weighs several tonnes and is shaped for interlock, maximizing dissipation of wave energy.

The world is made of shapes. Most serve without asking for attention. They fit our hands, our bodies, our sense of what belongs. Some are tools of comfort, some of harm, but all speak, in their way, our language of form.

And then there are the shapes that don’t. Some feel wrong the moment we

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