Innovative Surface Structures: Technologies and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780415419673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str.

Bechthold Marti; Martin Bechthold

Opis

Martin Bechthold is an architect and practised for 8 years with Santiago Calatrava and von Gerkan, Marg & Ptnrs as well as other leading edge practices. He is now focussing on teaching and a small design and consulting practice in the USA. He is known to have undertaken some of the most innovative research in the area of surface structures.

Spis treści

Part 1: Surface Architecture  1. Lightweight Design – New Directions  2. The Quest for Thinness  Part 2: Membrane Structures  3. Types and Structural Behaviour  4. Form-Finding and Analysis  5. Materials and Fabrication  Part 3: Rigid Surfaces  6. Form and Structure  7. From Concepts to Constructs  8. Material and Construction Approaches  Part 4: Perspectives  9. Emerging Technologies and Systems  10. Towards a New Architecture of Structural Surfaces

O autorze

Martin Bechthold