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2. Shell (structure) - Wikipedia

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   Shell structure of the TWA Flight Center Building by Eero Saarinen, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York The Forest Opera, an open-air amphitheatre in Sopot, Poland, with a membrane roof. Great Court, with a lattice thin-shell roof by Buro Happold with Norman Foster, British Museum, London. A shell is a three-dimensional solid ...

3. Concrete shell - Wikipedia

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   A concrete shell, also commonly called thin shell concrete structure, is a structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses. The shells are most commonly monolithic domes , but may also take the form of hyperbolic paraboloids , ellipsoids , cylindrical sections, or some ...

4. List of thin-shell structures - Wikipedia

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   The world's first membrane roof and lattice steel shell in the Shukhov Rotunda, Nizhny Novgorod, All-Russia exhibition, 1895 Geodesic shell of Nagoya Dome by Takenaka Corporation, Nagoya, Japan, 1997. Shell of Kresge Auditorium by Eero Saarinen, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953.

5. Climate-adaptive building shell - Wikipedia

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   Movable roof of the Bengt Sjostrom Theatre in Rockford, Illinois able to modulate the indoor environmental conditions to maximize the occupants' experience. In building engineering, a climate-adaptive building shell (CABS) is a facade or roof that interacts with the variability of its environment in a dynamic way.

6. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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   Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure. A building's roofing material provides shelter from the natural elements. The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting ...

7. Building envelope - Wikipedia

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   The building envelope or enclosure is all of the elements of the outer shell that maintain a dry, heated, or cooled indoor environment and facilitate its climate control. Building envelope design is a specialized area of architectural and engineering practice that draws from all areas of building science and indoor climate control. [2]

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9. List of hyperboloid structures - Wikipedia

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   The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface, and thus can be used to construct a saddle roof from straight beams. A saddle roof is a hyperbolic paraboloid , that mathematically, as a doubly ruled surface , can be constructed from two rows of straight beams.