CONSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR POLYMERS + MEMBRANES: MATERIALS AND SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS
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.
- Paperback | 296 pages
- 230 x 297 x 30.48mm | 1,458g
- 04 Oct 2012
- Birkhauser
- Basel, Switzerland
- English
- 1100 Illustrations, black and white; 450 Illustrations, color
- 3034607261
- 9783034607261
