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Glass Structures

Glass Structures
Author: Jan Wurm
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3764376082

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Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization" but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture.


The Glass State

The Glass State
Author: Annette Fierro
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262062336

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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1988 as part of Francois Mitterand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buidings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions.


Glass in Structures

Glass in Structures
Author: Rob Nijsse
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783764364397

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"The author, Rob Nijsse describes with great expertise designs, concepts and realized projects, in which glass elements fulfil crucial architectural tasks. In the advanced architecture of today the use of this transparent material goes well beyond self-supporting functions and comprises structural parts such as columns, walls, floors and roofs. One of the characteristic material properties of glass - to break suddenly and completely under certain conditions - seems only at first glance incompatible with the static responsibilities of structural elements; each of the construction achievements presented demonstrates how the engineer is challenged every time again to refute that assumption." "The various creative solutions, arrived at in close cooperation with some of the most interesting architects of the present, are carefully documented by a multitude of construction drawings, sketches and photographs."--BOOK JACKET.


Structural Glass

Structural Glass
Author: Peter Rice
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Architectural glass
ISBN: 0419199403

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This book is published in English for the first time. The first edition in French sold extremely well and this second edition has the added benefit of an 8 page colour section and nine new case studies not only from France but from Norway, London.


The Use of Glass in Buildings

The Use of Glass in Buildings
Author: Valerie L. Block
Publisher: ASTM International
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002
Genre: Glass construction
ISBN: 0803134584

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This proceedings volume from the American Society for Testing and Materials contains 16 papers by industry professionals on the use of glass in buildings with an emphasis on glass design. Editor Block discusses codes and standards affecting glass in buildings in the U.S. and abroad. Other topics inc


Challenging Glass

Challenging Glass
Author: Freek Bos
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781586038663

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Contains topics that range from glass joints, fixings and adhesives to architectural designs to the strength, stability and safety of glass. This book also covers issues such as laminates and composite designs, glass lighting, the curving and bending of glass and the many facades of glass.


Structural Use of Glass

Structural Use of Glass
Author: Matthias Haldimann
Publisher: IABSE
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008
Genre: Glass construction
ISBN: 3857481196

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This book attempts to redress this issue by providing an overview of the recent developments in this field thereby providing a basis for the understanding of the structural performance and design of glass in buildings. Each chapter draws on the latest developments in practice and research and contains contributions from various international glass experts. The mix of general and specialist content ranging from rules of thumb to fracture mechanics and novel applications to post-breakage performance make this book useful to practitioners and researchers. Furthermore, the text is supplemented by tables of the major codes of practice and by an extensive list of references.


Glass Buildings

Glass Buildings
Author: Heinz W. Krewinkel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Glass is a material which renders possible an especially elegant architectural language. This book provides a detailed insight into a world of technically sophisticated structures. Twenty-five projects from the past five years are presented here in a wealth of detail by way of descriptions, photographs and scale drawings. The buildings selected encompass a wide range of different types and functions, providing an intriguing record of the whole spectrum of current developments in glass technology and the role it plays in construction.


Challenging Glass 3

Challenging Glass 3
Author: IOS Press
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 1022
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1614990611

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There are two things everybody knows about glass: it is transparent, and it breaks! These are also the properties that constitute the challenge of glass as an architectural and structural material. This book presents papers from the third Challenging Glass Conference (CGC3), held at the Technical University (TU) Delft, the Netherlands, in June 2012. The conference brings together glass engineering, research and design specialists. Papers are grouped under seven topic headings: project and case studies; joints, fixings and adhesives; strength, stability and safety (a category which includes a quarter of all the papers presented at the conference); laminates and composite design; curved and bended glass; architectural design and lighting and finally, glass in facades. Glass remains one of the most exciting materials available to designers and architects today. This book will be of interest to all those involved in working with glass in an architectural and structural context.