ETFE

Autoreninformationen

Annette LeCuyer ist Architektin. Sie studierte an der Architectural Association in London und ist derzeit Professorin an der Universität Buffalo, State University of New York. Zahlreiche Publikationen zur Architektur; bei Birkhäuser erschien 2003 der Titel Stahl & Co./Steel and Beyond.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Ian Liddell

1. Introduction: Pleasure, Power and Payload

evolution of balloons / the pneumatic imagination

evolution of concepts of ideal environment - Garden of Eden to Crystal Palace

2. The Pneumatic Imagination: Architectural Ideas and Applications

Concepts of lightness, efficiency (doing more with less) and total environments as developed by Buckminster Fuller, Walter Bird, Frei Otto and Archigram

3. Material Matters: ETFE

Material ingredients/chemical makeup, manufacture/processing, properties

Who developed ETFE, original use and subsequent applications outside architecture and building construction

manufacturing of ETFE films (cutting and patterning, welding, printing)

first generation ETFE architectural projects

-Munich Olympics maintenance depot (Gunter Behnisch)

-Botanical and aquatic enclosures in Germany and the Netherlands- Vector/Foiltec

Design and Production Stefan Lehnart

4. Soft Structure

characteristics of the material: yield, equilibrium with air pressure

characteristics of the cushion system; fluid damping, synclastic system, size and shape, span, air pressure, camber, lighter primary structure, elimination of secondary structure, temperature and humidity, creep, edge stresses / edge details, puncture / repair

5. The Performative Skin

Light transmission / UV transmission

Degradation

Thermal performance

Acoustics

Fire

Sustainability - raw materials, embodied energy, energy consumption in use, recycling,

Cradle-to-cradle

Energy production / photovoltaics

6. Environmongery - The Variable Skin

Ability to change light transmission, thermal attributes and appearance through variable air pressure

7. Life Safety

8. The Communicative Skin

9. The Climatic Envelope: The Next Generation

-Projects now on the drawing boards offer the potential of achieving the large environmental envelopes envisioned by Fuller, Otto and others.

-Implications/projections/crystal gazing

Public vs private realms

Liberation vs captivation (internal freedom vs external control)

Flexibility vs monoculture

Sustainability and the environment

Afterword Ben Morris

Project credits

Bibliography

Acknowledgments / image credits

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