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Architecture is based upon the misconception that strong is stable, both in sense of energy and structure, as an unchanged state of microclimate would require more material or insulation. Trans-structures are the opposite: building elements with the response-ability to change according to external conditions in order to maintain stability in terms of structure and/or energy. In this type of building, any effect (structural or thermal load) would generate an immediate affect (a response of the structure). Energy and weight would be counteracted and on a total scale, change would not occur. Such buildings are always in transition from one state to another, unlike conventional structures.
The book details sources of thermal energy, methods of capture, and applications. It describes the basics of thermal energy, including measuring thermal energy, laws of thermodynamics that govern its use and transformation, modes of thermal energy, conventional processes, devices and materials, and the methods by which it is transferred. It covers 8 sources of thermal energy: combustion, fusion (solar) fission (nuclear), geothermal, microwave, plasma, waste heat, and thermal energy storage. In each case, the methods of production and capture and its uses are described in detail. It also discusses novel processes and devices used to improve transfer and transformation processes.
Inside this full-color digital edition: PROTOSCIENCE Free Energy...Gravity Control...Alternative Science... Dr. Pollack and the Case for a Fourth Phase of Water By Jerry Decker THE FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGIST A Visit to Angkor Wat, Finally By Michael Cremo ALTERNATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY RETURN to the GREAT SPHINX The Geologist Who Startled the World by ReDating the Sphinx, Finds More Evidence -- It's Even Older Than He Once Thought By Robert Schoch, Ph.D. FORGOTTEN HISTORY Taboo The Curious Burial of Gobekli Tepe By RITA LOUISE, Ph.D. ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE Is the Planet in Midlife Crisis? Getting Old, They Say, Is Not for Sissies By SUSAN B. MARTINEZ, Ph.D. ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE Catastrophism Reconsidered ...
The book introduces water as a building material to build unique, responsive-able structures and define a new paradigm for architecture and sustainable design.
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.
The Generic Sublime is the outcome of an investigation on extra-extra-large developmental typologies carried out at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Departments of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, and Landscape Architecture, between the years 2010 and 2013. The book assembles this investigation and structures its materials, methods and outcomes along three parts. The first part includes a series of writings by the author and invited theoreticians and practitioners toward debating, substantiating or challenging the theory of the Generic Sublime, as presented by the book. The second part proposes three operative taxonomies, understood as the consecutive steps in a proc...
Mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer hat sich die Stadt verändert; durch die neue geo politische Lage, den wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Strukturwandel, die Umwertung ganzer Stadtviertel - Teile Neuköllns zum Beispiel liegen nur noch wenige U-Bahn Minuten vom neuen Zentrum der Stadt entfernt - erfährt das Leben der Berliner eine rasante Umgestaltung. Als Mitarbeiter des Heimatmuseums fragten wir uns, welche Chancen und Risiken besonders für die Bewohner der Neuköllner Altstadt mit diesen tiefgreifenden Verände rungen verbunden sind. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Europäische Ethno logie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin planten wir eine Mikrostudie, die uns am Beispiel eines ...