More Technical – Page 44

  • Nigel Bailey
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    Time Test

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Nigel Bailey of Dixon Jones revisits the National Gallery to see how the flooring and wall surfaces have fared two years on from its renovation

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    The magic numbers

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    It’s not just the golden section — architects often use complex mathematical sequences as inspiration for their designs. David Littlefield reports on the latest schemes to find their forms from numbers

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    ‘L’ stands for leakage

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Airtightness could be a much more effective solution to energy efficiency and reducing CO2 than insulation, according to overdue research on meeting Part L.

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    Up, up and away

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    The Serpentine Pavilion, always a chance to show off, is this year an ethereal balloon — light enough to float yet structurally robust. Will Jones explains how Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond did it

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    Taking the strain

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Load-bearing facades have never quite gone away, but they may now be giving curtain walls a run for their money. Jes Fernie looks at buildings that bear their structure on their sleeves

  • Mueller Keener Associates and Sabine Gollner’s Skelter features coloured polycarbonate strips inset into the steel panels for colour and luminosity.
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    Gimme shelters

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    A West Midlands scheme shows how building youth shelters can benefit both young people and architects.

  • Line of site
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    Design an international oasis for a desert

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Of all the potentially disastrous effects of climate change, “water wars” would be the most bloody and brutal.

  • The bridge over the Rio Aguarico, Ecuador.
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    Hands across the divide

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Two community-led approaches to helping the developing world show how architectural skills - often overlooked by aid organisations - are rebuilding lives from Kosovo to Cambodia.

  • A bombed-out post office in a Kosovan village inspired this image by London Metropolitan diploma students.
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    London Met's disaster MA fits the new world order

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Toni Ruttimann's story was about breaking the rules on international aid, rules which recent events have shown to be in any case changing.

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    I wish I'd done that...House

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    James Soane on the ‘architecture of modesty’ in Jim Ede’s conversion of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge

  • Student Jesse Randzio pre-assembling the pavilion components.
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    On the cutting room floor

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The AA student summer pavilion is a work of fractal geometry in wood. Elaine Knutt tells us how they did it

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    I wish I'd done that... Timber structure

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Matthew Wells on the equestrian centre, Flyinge Kungsgarden, Sweden

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    Time Test

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Sophy Twohig, a project director at Hopkins Architects, looks at how her practice's refectory at Norwich cathedral has stood up to the elements

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    Beyond the regulations

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Renewables will only get us so far - reducing CO2 emissions must be the key

  • Green scene South West Eco Homes, the company set up in 2002 by the Somerset Trust for Sustainable Development, has completed a new “green” showhome (pictured) at Great Bow Yard in Langport.
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    Techbrief

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    This week, innovations from Vaillant, South West Eco Homes, Kawneer UK and Akristos

  • Kitchen and living space, with the west-facing sun deck and views of the river.
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    How we cracked it 29: North Elmham, Norfolk

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To create a house with dramatic structural openings and large uninterrupted volumes on a low budget

  • As the steel door frames were cast directly into the walls, each door’s properties had to be decided earlier than usual.
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    French lessons

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Knutt reports on a new school where door frames were cast directly into concrete walls

  • Senior Aluminium Systems’ door at the Fresenius Medical Care Centre.
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    Techbrief

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This week: Products from Vetrotech, Cosifloor Pleated Blinds & Senior Aluminium Systems

  • A three light Dwell-Vent window installed at a demonstration project in Norwich.
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    Nothing wrong with a breath of fresh air

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Supply air windows are an established idea, but Part L's air-tightness requirements could mean their time has come.

  • In the mid 1950s a British architect called John Penn moved to Los Angeles to work with Richard Neutra, famed for his modernist Case Study houses perched on Californian hillsides.
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    I wish I'd done those... Doors and windows

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Jason Turner on John Penn's Beach House in Suffolk