Sentences with phrase «wood structure as»

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About 90 % of the 821 buildings are thought to be wood - frame structures, such as apartments with carports on the ground floor.

All of them were caught by surprise as swiftly moving fire devoured the brittle collections of oddities and the surrounding dry wood structure.

The structure is pretty solid, but the material used isn't quite as high quality as the Athena Leila; it's not solid wood.

TOUGH STUFF A new wood - compacting process crushes the gaps between cell walls in natural wood (porous structure seen in the scanning electron microscopy image, left), making the densified wood (right) as strong as steel.

The vertical structures that «saved so many lives» during the recent disaster were made of reinforced concrete, many of which remained standing even as wood - frame structures washed away, Yeh says.

Across cultures, countries and eras, people have built fires by piling wood or other fuel in pyramid - or cone - shaped structures that are about as tall as they are wide at the base, Bejan says.

That's because they underwent a process in which silica — likely emitted by a nearby volcano — saturated the tree and took on the shape of the wood's internal structure as it decayed, preserving its 3D cellular structure.

materials scientist A researcher who studies the structures and properties of the substances from which things are made, such as wood, metal, plastic and glass.

Termites are group of wood - eating insects that serve as important decomposers in nature, but some types are highly destructive pests to human - built structures, Vargo said.

Objectives covered: Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets) Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties Observe changes across the 4 seasons Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies ALSO ADDED: Individual assessments for ALL science objectives for ALL year groups are available for purchase as are individual year group, KS1, KS2 or complete Primary packs.

That's because old - growth wood window frames are more rot - and warp - resistant, hold paint better, and is both dense (it terms of its internal structure) and scarce (as a resource).

That's because air sealing in a historic home can dramatically impact how moisture moves through a structure and this could impact the build - up of condensation as well as mold and mildew (which can lead to rot in your home's wood - frame structure, along with hurting your health).

● Assist park staff with the construction of erosion controlled structures, such as wood and rock retaining walls, steps / staircases, post and cable and split rail fences.

Known since ancient times for its hot springs, San Casciano fascinates tourists for its untouched environment, woods and stunning landscape, as well as the historical centre that reflects its medieval structure.

National Park Service Golden Gate National Recreation Area Media Advisory: COMPLETELY RESTORED WARMING HUT REOPENS FOLLOWING FIRE LAST WINTER WHAT: The Warming Hut Café, Park Store & Visitor Information Center is open WHEN: Reopened, Monday, December 3, 2007; open daily 9 am to 5 pm WHERE: West Bluffs, Crissy Field, Golden Gate National Parks, San Francisco, CA HISTORY: The historic 1909 wood frame two - story structure was originally built as an U.S. Engineer Storehouse.

Expect to pay as little as 1 % of the insured value for concrete homes going up to as much as 2.5 % of the insured value for a mixed wood / concrete structure for one year of coverage.

It had the same floor plan as the original wood structure other then the added large balcony supported by columns that tower over the sidewalks.

All villas are fusion of Asian and the influence by Zen Buddhism with minimalist Japanese - style, abundance of water, warm Balinese woods and serene structures as well as the stands of mature bamboo.

Players fortunate enough to make it through the wooded path are engaged in combat on a cliff side leading to a castle like structure only to be met with enemy spear - like projectiles from a distance, as if hurled by a distant foe simultaneously.

Engaging different methods of construction, Oscar Tuazon frequently uses wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping as materials to create his structures and installations.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

The performance structures are sculptures made of wood and found materials that serve as totems to mark spiritual space and connect across geographic, temporal and generational worlds.

She also tries her hand at estructuras, or stand - alone structures in painted wood, just as Stella's later work came off the wall.

Morris often works with interchangeable structures, inasmuch as he reconstructs and repeats forms such as the L - Beams in materials as wood, aluminum, or steel mesh and thereby dissolves the notion of original or seriality within his own work.

Monochromatic and painted on canvas, Jennifer Boysen's most recent works are distinguished primarily by the originality of the structures that serve as their stretchers, objects that she has either found or made, and that present a certain variety in terms of shapes, dimensions, and materials — wood, copper, steel, aluminium.

Sol LeWitt, Cubic - Modular Wall Structure, Black, 1966 Painted wood, 43 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches Collection of Museum of Modern Art, NY Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967) «I will refer to the kind of art in which I am involved as conceptual art.

Resembling a small blacked out window Untitled, (2015) is from a series of new works made from wood, polyurethane and epoxy resin that act as supports or framing structures for iodine - a chemical that the human body needs but can not make, that disinfects but is also highly toxic, that cleans but stains.

The leaning works are simpler, as well, many just one shape and one mark, and when there is a material shift in the work — for example, in the move from painted wood structure to steel base in «Deft Composition (Deft Composition)» — the move is hardly as disjunctive as painted wood structure to movie poster base.

Specifically built for this exhibition inside MIT List's Hayden Gallery, Berlin - based artist Djordjadze offers up five structures composed of wood and steel that act as both display for and part of enclosed sculptural works.

Gallery 1 contains Composting in the Pentagon with Worms, 2017, which complements the courtyard installation as a regenerative composting farm hosting 2,000 live worms, contained in a minimalist pentagonal wood structure, that will convert vegetarian refuse from neighboring businesses into prime topsoil over the course of the exhibition.

His oeuvre comprises travels all over the world, in the course of which he creates fascinating, temporary art works from stones or wood, as well as sculptures as results of long walking tours, that appear calming and are seemingly guided by a great respect for nature and the structure of basic shapes such as circles.

Teruya makes drawings of elements of urban design and architecture — bollards, wood planks, cement blocks — as well as actual structures, which he then cuts and arranges to create crisp, elegant collaged drawings.

And while there's an Iphone in hand, numbers on the wall and a flatscreen playing, african masks as well as materials like plaster, jute and wood take these figures to a look or point which stands beyond a specific spatial or temporal structure, but at their best emanates a sort of idiosyncratic contemporaneity.

He plays with the structure of his sculptures, honing his craftsmanship of various materials such as wood, slate, brass, marble and steel in the process.

In the 1980s, Dunham started painting on wood and using the grain of his material as a structure for the nascent painting.

In older wood sculptures as well, as in the voluminous work How Much Does Your Mind Weigh with its open serial structure, which Deacon presented in the corner space at Galerie Thomas Schulte in 2007, the beholder is included in the free structure and involved in its movement.

In the exhibition situation, the steel sculpture Siamese Metal # 4 and these wall drawings, reflecting in their two dimensionality, with their permeable, amorphous structures seem to serve as mediators between the wood sculptures, between Still Water (Talking the Talk)-- which suppresses space — and Walking the Walk, which appears almost in a process of dissolution.

Working with materials such as metal, concrete and wood, his minimal forms are often recognisable as furniture, municipal structures and trees.

The structure, made from found materials such as polyurethane foam, wood, glass, coral and leather, challenges aesthetic sensibilities and may even make you wish that you had a Cliff's Notes version of The Bacchae with you for reference.

The Goldring Centre was designed to support a steel structure, but wood structures are light as well, so they were able to make the switch to a hybrid Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and concrete structure.

Adjacent to the structure is a «South African styled «stoep» or veranda with an indoor wood - fired BBQ or «braii» which doubles up as an open wood burner,» plus a wood - fired hot tub for a luxurious soak.

TMBER is the world's first bio brand building system utilizing CLT that produces healthy, quick - to - markets smart - panels and modular units used as solid wood construction structures for a wide variety of purposes like individual homes, affordable housing, student residences, mid and high rise urban developments and everything in between and beyond.

Here the structure is steel and the wood, untreated larch, is used as cladding only.

The Fram had 28 inches of wood as its structure, but was designed to resist ice pressure.

Contrary to popular belief, when logging occurs, only a fraction of the wood that is cleared ends up as dimensional lumber and eventually in housing and other structures.

-- Extensive use of recycled building materials and reclaimed wood flooring It's also worth noting that, although construction costs on the $ 20 million structure were slightly higher thanks to all the added technology, NASA should recover the difference within 10 years — at which point the facility will be a major cost - saver as well as energy - saver.

Winter heating needs are easily met by a cast - iron wood stove in the center of the structure, with the help of an 812 AirMax Ecofan and a solar hot - air panel on the south wall of the porch, also known as a Trombe Wall.

In forest soils, basidiomycetes — fungi also known as cords for the root - like structures they form underground — release enzymes that stimulate, for example, the growth of other, wood - decomposing fungi.

The owner Dale explained to our group that the structure we worked on will be used to build cabinets and wood kayaks, yet none of us could let go of the potential for the building as a home.

Furniture, insulation, any structure that is as strong as wood, you name it, Ecovative can make it — out of mushrooms.