ETFE, English edition : Technology and Design

ISBN-13: 9783764385637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 160 str.

Annette LeCuyer

Opis

Eine Einfuhrung zum Entwerfen und Bauen mit ETFE-Folien. Das Buch ist als fundiertes Grundlagenwerk konzipiert, das sowohl Materialeigenschaften wie technologische und konstruktive Verwendungsmoglichkeiten grundsatzlich und umfassend vermittelt.

Spis treści

Foreword Ian Liddell

 

1. Introduction: Pleasure, Power and Payload

evolution of balloons / the pneumatic imagination

evolution of concepts of ideal environment - Garden of Eden to Crystal Palace

 

2. The Pneumatic Imagination: Architectural Ideas and Applications

Concepts of lightness, efficiency (doing more with less) and total environments as developed by Buckminster Fuller, Walter Bird, Frei Otto and Archigram

 

3. Material Matters: ETFE

Material ingredients/chemical makeup, manufacture/processing, properties

Who developed ETFE, original use and subsequent applications outside architecture and building construction

manufacturing of ETFE films (cutting and patterning, welding, printing)

first generation ETFE architectural projects

-Munich Olympics maintenance depot (Gunter Behnisch)

-Botanical and aquatic enclosures in Germany and the Netherlands- Vector/Foiltec

 

Design and Production Stefan Lehnart

4. Soft Structure

characteristics of the material: yield, equilibrium with air pressure

characteristics of the cushion system; fluid damping, synclastic system, size and shape, span, air pressure, camber, lighter primary structure, elimination of secondary structure, temperature and humidity, creep, edge stresses / edge details, puncture / repair

 

5. The Performative Skin

Light transmission / UV transmission

Degradation

Thermal performance

Acoustics

Fire

Sustainability - raw materials, embodied energy, energy consumption in use, recycling,

Cradle-to-cradle

Energy production / photovoltaics

 

6. Environmongery - The Variable Skin

Ability to change light transmission, thermal attributes and appearance through variable air pressure

7. Life Safety

8. The Communicative Skin

9. The Climatic Envelope: The Next Generation

-Projects now on the drawing boards offer the potential of achieving the large environmental envelopes envisioned by Fuller, Otto and others.

-Implications/projections/crystal gazing

Public vs private realms

Liberation vs captivation (internal freedom vs external control)

Flexibility vs monoculture

Sustainability and the environment

 

Afterword Ben Morris

 

 

Project credits

Bibliography

Acknowledgments / image credits

 

O autorze

Annette LeCuyer ist Architektin und Professorin an der Universität Buffalo, State University of New York.