Overview
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 material properties; at the same time, there is a growing new awareness of its potential as a construction material. While plastics used to be employed primarily as an inexpensive variant on traditional building materials, they are increasingly regarded in the construction world today as a serious and viable alternative, be it as supporting structures, roofs, facades, or elements of interior design and decoration. Thanks in large part to this inherent self-sufficiency, plastics are currently enjoying an unprecedented surge in popularity, even among the international architectural avant-garde – as multiwall sheets or corrugated, fiber-reinforced panels, or as filling between glass panes. And the new generation of ecological bioplastics also pays tribute to the debate on sustainability, ridding plastics of their lingering reputation as environmental offenders. From the history of plastics and membranes in architecture to their material properties and requirements in construction and design, the Plastics and Membranes Construction Manual cuts to the chase, providing the kind of solid and comprehensive overview of the subject that readers have come to expect from the Im DETAIL series. Selected project examples round off the reference work and make it indispensable for the day-to-day life of the professional planner and for every architecture library.
Full Product Details
Author: Jan Knippers ,
Jan Cremers ,
Markus Gabler ,
Julian Lienhard
Publisher: Birkhauser
Imprint: Birkhauser
Dimensions:
Width: 23.00cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 29.70cm
Weight: 1.673kg
ISBN: 9783034607339
ISBN 10: 3034607334
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 13 October 2011
Recommended Age: College Graduate Student
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Jan Knippers, Prof. Dr.-Ing., Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen (itke), Fakultät für Architektur und Stadtplanung, Universität Stuttgart Jan Cremers, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Architekt, Fakultät Architektur und Gestaltung, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart Markus Gabler, Dipl.-Ing., Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen (itke), Fakultät für Architektur und Stadtplanung, Universität Stuttgart Julian Lienhard, Dipl.-Ing., Institut für Tragkonstruktionen und Konstruktives Entwerfen (itke), Fakultät für Architektur und Stadtplanung, Universität Stuttgart
