Glass Structures: Design and Construction of Self-Supporting Skins
Glass Structures: Design and Construction of Self-Supporting Skins
$89.95
Wurm, Jan
Cl. Basel, 2007
Book ID: 73902
Coherent guide to the planning and design of structural glass skins. The focus is on the pressure-resistant and flat load-bearing plate as a basic module for wide-span roof structures. The functional and structural forms of multifaceted, self-supporting glass enclosures are comprehensively illustrated and systematically explained. The designs presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization but on the poetry of luminous and diaphanous planes.
255 pp., 370 color llus., 500 drawings.