Cast Ground

Patio, path and pattern · New Braunfels

749 sf cast in panels · 13 ft round platform · two 3 ft walks · 9.3 yd³ heavy sand mix · forming next

The property as a LiDAR point cloud: the residence, the beds, the paths and the fire circle picked out in measured returns.

Key

1Residence47 × 66 ft · 3,109 sf

2Fire circleThe 13 ft platform is cast on it · 133 sf

3Side walksTwo, 3 ft wide · 105 and 101 lf, steps at the turn

4BedsWhite gravel and river rock, as found

Measured from the LiDAR survey of the lot. 749 sf at four inches is 9.3 cubic yards of heavy sand mix, cast in segments: a 13 ft round platform on the existing fire circle (133 sf), a 3 ft walk down the west side with steps at the turn (314 sf), a 3 ft walk down the east side on the line of the existing path (303 sf). Five yards of 1⅖ in. white limestone over the brown river rock, half a pallet as border. The grade falls 11%, 13 in per 10 ft from the street to the rear corner. Areas taken off the scan, confirmed by tape before forming.

Cast Ground

Patio, path and pattern · New Braunfels

Prepared by: NOONDesign ☉ Build ☉ Systems

Issue: 09.2026

Studio: San AntonioAustin · By commission anywhere

Sheet: L-6

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Method · Attachment M

Casting standard

Fig. 01 · Birch forms bent to the line: the same method, at 28 ft

This is not a slab with a pattern drawn on it. It is a set of cast panels, each formed and poured on its own, struck against the one before it. These rules keep it a made thing rather than a poured one.

01Segmented, not continuous

Every cell is formed, steeled and poured as its own panel, then the next is cast against it. There is no single monolithic run. The joints are not damage control, they are the drawing.

02Formwork bent by hand

Birch laminated and braced on site to the line drawn on the plate. No rented mat, no catalogue shape. Every curve on this property is cut for this property and is used once.

03Heavy sand mix

A coarse, sand-rich mix rather than a smooth structural pour. It finishes with tooth, holds grip underfoot when wet, and takes low afternoon light the way stone does instead of flashing like a trowelled floor.

04Margins held

A consistent border is carried around each panel and around the whole field. It is the margin that makes a pattern read as intended rather than as a crack that happened to be neat.

05Steel in every panel

Reinforcement set on chairs inside each cell and tied before any concrete is placed, so the steel sits within the slab rather than under it. Continuous across a joint only where the layout calls for it.

06Cured, then walked

The pour is left alone to cure before it carries traffic, and the site is walked with you before anything is called finished.

07What it is not

Not a stamped slab. Nothing is pressed into the surface from a mat.
Not a continuous pour scored afterwards to look like panels.
Not a finish that repeats, because no two forms are cut the same.

Reads withL-6 The survey · L-1 The Lotus, the same method at 28 ft

Cell layout is drawn at full dimension before a single form is bent, set out on site in paint with the owner present, and agreed before forming.

Cast Ground

Casting standard

Prepared by: NOONDesign ☉ Build ☉ Systems

Issue: 09.2026

Studio: San AntonioAustin · By commission anywhere

Sheet: M

Design ☉ Build ☉ Systems · San Antonio · Austin · By commission anywhere · Hablamos español