Supersheds : the architecture of long-span, large-volume buildings /

Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Buildings deals with large single-volume buildings known as supersheds. This book explains and catalogues the changes in modern architecture of supersheds and illustrates this with significant and important examples. This text is composed of si...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkinson, Chris (Christopher John)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth Architecture, 1991.
Colección:Butterworth Architecture new technology.
Temas:
Commercial buildings > Design and construction.
Space frame structures.
Structures spatiales.
space frames.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Commercial buildings > Design and construction
Space frame structures
Commercial buildings > Architecture
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Building; Copyright Page ; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Photographic Credits; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century; Background; The great exhibition halls; The great railway era; Chapter 2. Hangars; Airship hangars; Aircraft hangars; Chapter 3. Industrial Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century; US industrial architecture; European industrial architecture 1900-1945; Beautiful factories; Wartime manufacturing buildings in the USA; Chapter 4. Evolution of the Well Serviced Multi-use Shed.
  • Major influencesThe extruded shed; The cool box; Special structures; Chapter 5. More with Less; Space structures; Suspended roof structures; Air-supported structures; Chapter 6. The Future; Bibliography; Books; Journals; Index.

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