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Supersheds : the architecture of long-span, large-volume buildings /

Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Buildings deals with large single-volume buildings known as supersheds. This book explains and catalogues the changes in modern architecture of supersheds and illustrates this with significant and important examples. This text is composed of si...

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Main Authors: Wilkinson, Chris (Christopher John) (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Butterworth Architecture,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 1991.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Butterworth Architecture new technology.
Subjects:
Commercial buildings > Design and construction.
Space frame structures.
Architecture, Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE > Public, Commercial & Industrial. > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Commercial buildings > Architecture
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780750612210
Summary: Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Buildings deals with large single-volume buildings known as supersheds. This book explains and catalogues the changes in modern architecture of supersheds and illustrates this with significant and important examples. This text is composed of six chapters. The first chapter gives a background of 19th century architecture that made possible great exhibition halls and long-spans of the railway era. The second chapter deals with another type of supershed: airship and aircraft hangars. In the third chapter, industrial architecture in Europe a.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 118 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index.
ISBN: 9781483145068
1483145069
Index Number: TH4311
CLC: TU247
Contents: Front Cover; Supersheds: The Architecture of Long-Span, Large-Volume Building; Copyright Page ; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Photographic Credits; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century; Background; The great exhibition halls; The great railway era; Chapter 2. Hangars; Airship hangars; Aircraft hangars; Chapter 3. Industrial Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century; US industrial architecture; European industrial architecture 1900-1945; Beautiful factories; Wartime manufacturing buildings in the USA; Chapter 4. Evolution of the Well Serviced Multi-use Shed.
Major influencesThe extruded shed; The cool box; Special structures; Chapter 5. More with Less; Space structures; Suspended roof structures; Air-supported structures; Chapter 6. The Future; Bibliography; Books; Journals; Index.

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