Construction Manual for Polymers + Membranes Materials, Semi-finished Products, Form Finding, Design

Whether it be as translucent sheets, broadly stretched membranes, and inflated foil cushions or in graceful, organic curves, architecture today is utilizing plastics in the most disparate forms and for a wide variety of purposes. Innovative technical developments are constantly improving its materia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Knippers, Jan
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel Birkhäuser 2011
Edition Detail
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Birkhauser
Edition1
SeriesDETAIL Construction Manuals
Subjects
Architecture
ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice
Composite materials
Plastics in building
Polymers
Online AccessGet full text
ISBN9783034614702
3034614705
9783034607339
3034607334
9783034607261
3034607261
DOI10.11129/detail.9783034614702

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Preface -- Part A Polymers and membranes in architecture -- The discovery and development of polymers -- The dream of the polymer house -- Development of tensile surface structures -- Structures with transparent and translucent envelopes -- Potential, trends and challenges -- Part B Materials -- 1 Polymers -- 2 Fibres -- 3 Adhesives and coatings -- 4 Natural fibre-reinforced polymers and biopolymers -- Part C Semi-finished products -- 1 Primary products -- 2 Fibre-reinforced polymers -- 3 Semi-finished polymer products -- 4 Foil -- 5 Textile membranes -- 6 Building physics and energy aspects -- 7 Environmental impact of polymers -- Part D Planning and form-finding -- 1 Loadbearing structure and form -- 2 Detailed design aspects -- Part E Building with polymers and membranes -- 1 Building with semi-finished polymer products -- 2 Building with free-form polymers -- 3 Building with foil -- 4 Building with textile membranes -- 5 Complex building envelopes -- Part F Case studies -- Examples 1 to 23 -- Part G Appendix -- Statutory instruments, directives, standards -- Bibliography -- Authors -- Picture credits -- Abbreviations for polymers -- Index -- Index of names
  • Part A. Polymers and membranes in architecture
  • Part G. Appendix
  • Backmatter
  • Contents
  • Part E. Building with polymers and membranes
  • Frontmatter --
  • Part D. Planning and form-finding
  • Preface
  • Part B. Materials
  • Part F. Case studies
  • Part C. Semi-finished products
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