Green Building Store continues to fine tune passive house design and
construction techniques with exacting attention to detail, as demonstrated by its latest superinsulated, stone - clad cavity wall house in West Yorkshire.
Each artist uniquely combined materials, shapes, and
construction techniques with personal vision and community memory to create beautiful artworks with powerful messages.
For the ceiling, they chose a local
construction technique with branches of the Palma Amarga (sabal mauritiiformis) and palmata (Bactris guineensis) stems, as stated in Plataforma Arquitectura.
Not exact matches
* uses craftsman and women who use upholstery
techniques taht give the product a luxurious look,
with an emphasis on quality and feature stitching; * the
construction uses solid timber frames using local plantation grown timbers, which are kiln dried for stability; * frames are assembledby tradesman who nail, screw and glue the components; * corner blocks and a lining board are added to outside arms and backs for stability; * uses the No Sag steel spring system, which is used for its greater travel capacity for seating comfort; * uses Dunlop Enduro seating foams in its designs for their unique 36/38 density; * in addition to Garstone leather, they use Warwick fabrics, which have been tested to world standards for performance, durability and safety.
It uses modern
construction techniques combined
with ingenious design to make stylish and practical baby strollers for demanding parents and babies.
Design - build is a project - delivery
technique in which
construction is handled by a single entity instead of an architect interacting
with a contractor or contractors.
«The intent of our work was to develop a new apparatus to measure root growth in a greenhouse production setting using a system /
technique similar to the Horhizotron ™ but
with a different purpose, design, and
construction components,» Judd said.
Fraley, aided by his business partner and wife, Carol, surrounds himself
with a team of young artists
with strong visual sensibilities and experience
with the
construction techniques essential to dinosaur assembly.
The resulting «designer nanotubes,» she adds, promise to be far cheaper to produce on a large scale than those created
with so - called DNA origami, another innovative
technique for using DNA as a nanoscale
construction material.
Certainly there'll be damage, but one of the thing that's happened in the past, well I'm going to call it 15 or 20 years or so, is that our
construction techniques for dealing
with the vibrations caused by the earthquake have been employed since then, so that damage will be limited, compared
with what it might have been, had it happened, say 30 years ago, before new
construction requirements were put into place.
The versatility of the 3D wireframe design
technique was demonstrated
with the
construction of the snub cube, an Archimedean solid
with 60 edges, 24 vertices and 38 faces including 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles.
To manage the extremely large coil stresses, OINS combined extensive modelling
with innovative
construction techniques in order to produce the reliable high field LTS coils required.
Waterfall furniture was mass - produced from the 1920 ′ s - 1940 ′ s
with new plywood
construction techniques that made it affordable to introduce curvilinear elements into furniture
construction.
In Part I, Hirsch introduces key
techniques for sportswear
construction — from working
with knit fabrics to the intricacies of pant - making — and in Part II, she showcases a 30 - plus - piece vintage - inspired casual wardrobe.
Extensive knowledge of garment
construction, pattern making, silhouettes, color ways, sewing
techniques, fabrication and trim; familiarity
with print design and manufacturing
Ranging from gliding camera movements and symmetrical shot
constructions to slow motion and rich sound design, Jenkins deploys a wide range of
techniques with refreshing confidence and enthusiasm.
Expect lots of ground - breaking
construction techniques along
with plenty of carbon fiber bits.
Previous classics including the DB4, 5 and 6 models benefited from the lightweight «Superleggera»
construction technique employed by Touring, the Italian coachbuilder, which has a long been associated
with Aston Martin.
Compact Crossover SUVs use the unibody
construction techniques of a typical compact sedan to provide the driving comfort and confidence of a fully independent suspension
with the tall passenger cabin, ground clearance and cargo space of an SUV.
Lexus has adopted a new
technique for combining aluminum
with steel to help save weight in key areas, notably the
construction of the front suspension towers.
This
technique, combined
with its all - aluminum
construction and large oil capacity, allows the engine to maintain safe temperatures, allowing a Northstar - equipped car to be driven
with no coolant for about 100 mi (161 km) without damage.
Nowadays, Mercedes - Benz proudly owns over 90,000 registered patents and an endless list of innovatons, like the ground - breaking plug - in hybrid drive system, coupled
with the lightweight
construction techniques, setting new standards in terms of safety, efficiency and design.
With the extensive use of modern
construction techniques and high - and ultra-high strength steels, Alltrack's chassis manages to remain lightweight despite its upscale features and enhanced crash structure.
Using
construction techniques learned from developing the new i3 and i8 electrified vehicles, the structure of the 2016 BMW 7 - Series is likely to incorporate a mix of materials,
with carbon fibre used in addition to conventional aluminium and steel.
This means that instead of repairing or replacing features typical of older homes — like plaster walls —
with like materials, the policy will pay for repairs using today's standard building materials and
construction techniques.
It was re-built
with local materials using Ottoman
construction techniques, stones from local quarries and original material recovered by Hungarian army divers from the river.
Inspired by the indigenous pre-Columbian
construction techniques of the region, the architecture of the CNS Eco-lodge comprises round palenques (or ranchos), covered
with a traditional thatched roof of palm leaves.
Using high - quality
construction techniques, the owners Ben & Dee La Mendola along
with their daughter Kim, maintained the Spanish style, while increasing the size and features of the rooms.
The hotel's concept was built on the Moxy brand's design - forward sensibility, and is playfully executed
with thoughtful detailing, honest materials, and basic exposed
construction techniques.
McCloud, who worked on
construction sites for more than a dozen years, transitioned from design to visual art and now utilizes the industrial materials, tools and equipment
with which he is so familiar, in combination
with traditional pigment and woodblock printing
techniques, to create his works.
Employing a variety of
techniques, Mr. Mellyn's paintings often have three - dimensional
constructions, which toy
with the suspension of disbelief.
A common thread that ran through the collections was student experimentation
with unconventional draping, cutting, and
construction techniques.
The complex box
constructions utilize fourteenth - century
techniques, and are wood covered
with chalky gesso and adorned
with gold leaf, bole, graphite, watercolor, oil paint, ink, and mixed media, combining the most precious
with ordinary materials.
Many of the exhibited pieces display a relationship
with the concept of windows which in the work of the Portuguese artist is amplified, not merely by the Renaissance structure of the frame / window itself — a
technique ready to open new abstract perspectives on the concept of space — but in that particular use of materials tied to the
construction of a window.
On the other hand, Rothko showed none of Doerner's concern for the careful
construction of stretchers, and he adopted the late medieval
technique of interposing an isolating egg - white glaze between layers of pigments or vanish, which Doerner had specifically discouraged since egg white becomes very brittle
with time and turns brown.
We use coil and slab
construction techniques to build our forms
with cone 6 porcelain, fired in oxidation.
It then takes you through from freehand sketching to materials as well as
construction and
techniques, ending
with uninterrupted painting.
By uniting both past and present iconography
with the
techniques of mass communication, language and sign, Zhang's work deconstructs notions of tradition, gender, identity, the body, and popular culture while calling attention to these subjects in the context and
construction of a multicultural society.
Functioning as an anthropologist or a conservationist almost as much as an artist, Asim conceives large - scale works and
constructions that integrate high and low technology, blending materials like bamboo and urban waste
with sensors or digital mapping
techniques to illustrate the compatibility of traditional and modern technologies.
Reflecting on Crimp's legacy, «PostPictures» includes seven artists from the United States who work
with new media
techniques and contemporary modes of image
construction.
She interweaves formal abstraction
with 2 - d
techniques of illusions, exploring traditions of artistic
construction and production, both acknowledging traditional processes while subverting the expected result.
Over forty works by twelve artists will be included
with techniques ranging from lithography, etching, silkscreen, linocut and monoprint, to three - dimensional multi-media
constructions.
Now I'd love to get together and brainstorm
with Engineers Without Borders, Brian Tucker of Geohazards International, Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado (who co-created the simple but illuminating posters to the right) and others to create a similar system for disseminating knowledge about safer, but cheap
construction techniques in the world's crowding disaster hot spots.
Dante Bini is a visionary in the Bucky Fuller mode, an engineer experimenting
with different technologies,
construction techniques and scales, including vast cities in towers and in space.
Essentially, they use materials that can be found in the community to build «cheap» homes, coupled
with rainwater catchment systems, solar panels and other
construction techniques to develop a community
with the lightest footprint possible.
Here we look at the welding
technique that is used, and go into more detail
with the
construction of the Tiny House trailer frame.
The battle «between the hards and the softs... the Corbusian rationalists and these Swedish empiricists» (Kite 2010) was won by the modernists who embraced the new
construction technique «
with the use of concrete, steel and glass... to be ugly in its mechanical simplicity «(Sant «Elia 1914).
If we stuck
with standard
construction techniques a Passive House building would conceivably end up costing a lot more.
With each project we are working to simplify assembly and hew as closely as possible to standard
construction techniques.
Also, before current
construction techniques were prevalent, the natives built (and still build in many parts of the world) structures
with material and
techniques that adapted to the local weather conditions — what logic!