Overview
- Brimming with useful tips for design and building practice
- Stimulating examples of plastic in actual use
- Detailed documentation of technical principles
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Brief History of Plastic Buildings
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Material and Form — “Form Follows Material?”
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Transparent Plastics Between Intellectualisation and Trash Culture
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About this book
Recent years have seen the construction of buildings made of plastic, structures that are as attractive as they are unusual. After initial experiments in the 1970s, plastic is currently experiencing a tremendous boom. Originally used for temporary structures like the BMW Pavilion in Frankfurt, it is now employed in many permanent buildings as well, including the recent Catholic church in Radebeul by Staib/Behnisch. Prominent international avant-garde architects such as Shigeru Ban and Herzog & de Meuron frequently use transparent plastic for their structures. Transparent plastic seems ephemeral and thus captures the spirit of the times. Its various qualities between transparent and translucent make it possible to achieve fascinating effects with light and color.
Projects presented include the Allianz Arena in Munich by Herzog & de Meuron, the Rocket Tower in Leicester by Grimshaw & Partners, the Paper Art Museum by Shigeru Ban in Shizuoka, Japan, and the public housing development Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse by Lacaton Vassal.
About the author
Simone Jeska was born in 1965 and studied architecture at the Technische Fachhochschule in Nürnberg as well as theory and history of architecture at the ETH in Zurich. She is the author of a number of publications on architecture and is co-author of Office Buildings: A Design Manual.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transparent Plastics
Book Subtitle: Design and Technology
Authors: Simone Jeska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8287-2
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 159
Number of Illustrations: 142 b/w illustrations, 150 illustrations in colour
Topics: Basics of Construction