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What to Consider When Choosing Roofing Materials?

ArchDaily

It uses many aspects within its context: space, program, tectonics, and gesture, which refers to the stroke, the drawing, and the design. Cliff House / Zozaya Arquitectos © Rafael Gamo There are many ways to define architecture, from the most technical to the most poetic.

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Foster + Partners begins construction on Cambodia airport under canopy roof

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The central mass contains all passenger processing, security and immigration, and retail elements under an overarching roof canopy that stretches from the drop-off to the airside. The roof canopy itself is comprised of a lightweight steel grid shell with a screen to filter daylight into the terminal space.

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Greenhouse Technology in Architecture: Building Bright Spaces for the Future

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Image Cortesia de BDG Architects Zwolle Greenhouses are elegant and ingenious structures that incorporate simplicity in design while creating light-filled spaces that shape indoor climates. With walls and roofs composed mainly of transparent or translucent materials, these structures harness solar energy to create a controlled environment.

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Wave-shaped roofs top cultural space in Shanghai by Wutopia Lab

Deezen

Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. A fully glazed wall with a wave-like pattern fronts this space, overlooking the red-coloured square onto which it opens through golden doors.

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NASA explores potential for green roofs to lower temperatures in cities

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In a study published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society , the group used satellite imagery to measure temperatures at three rooftop gardens in Chicago compared to before the roof gardens were installed.

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Medprostor tops 12th-century church in Slovenia with folding roof

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Local studio Medprostor has covered and partially repaired a 900-year-old Romanesque church in Slovenia , placing an operable roof on top of the open structure to create a space "between a ruin and a reconstruction". a] space between a ruin and a reconstruction."

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Studio Gang begins construction on Parisian university built with 50 per cent natural materials

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The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least 50 per cent wood or other natural materials. It will be built from at least 50 per cent natural materials in line with the French sustainability law.

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