Category Building Science

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Energy, materials, thermodynamics

Building Science

Sep 1, ’11 6:01 AM

A great post on the topic of one architect’s “building science headache”. I agree.

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Swedish Framing

Sep 1, ’11 6:00 AM

First, a look at factory production framing in Sweden. The mineral-wool insulation fits perfectly. Nice butterfly table.

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Greenhouse Gases: Infographic

Aug 11, ’11 6:00 AM

I didn’t know that I, or rather the per-capita-USA-citizen I, put eighteen tons of CO2 into the atmosphere last year. 36,000 pounds. Just me.

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Kuroshio Sea

Jun 23, ’11 6:00 AM

A single 22.5 m x 8.2 m x 60 cm acrylic glass panel at the aquarium in Okinawa. OK – sure – a Dubai aquarium has a slightly larger panel measuring 32.8 m x 8.3 m x 75 cm. One hundred and seven feet long. Thirty inches thick. Thirty feet high. 270 tons.

How?

The video will calm us down (please: full screen, HD) while we ponder the impossible logistics of moving around such an object and installing it in a building. Without leaks.

We appreciate the twenty or thirty thousand creatures living here all the more, after pondering this, raising more important questions, I think, than how did they get the glass in.

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Analog: Crutch of Authenticity

Jun 16, ’11 6:00 AM

analog (also analogue)
noun: a thing seen as comparable to another : the idea that the fertilized egg contains a miniature analog of every adult structure.
adjective: relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position or voltage. Often contrasted with digital.

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Angry Birds

Oct 21, ’10 8:04 PM

Glass is Air, Windows are Trees, Buildings are Sky

Every year millions of birds die by striking reflective or clear window glass in full flight.

National Geographic’s introductory video.

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Building Materials Reuse

Oct 16, ’10 11:28 AM

A useful link: brma.org

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