Building on water: design projects using aluminium structural elements
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Dianne Van Hove
Frans Soetens |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Chicago 2008 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 532-533 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2008 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137908796293992 | ||||
| Abstract: |
In the last decades design initiatives have been taken in The Netherlands regarding building on water. Three design projects, incorporating aluminium as the main structural material, are shown in the paper. The projects include a floating building, a floating road and a connection between building and road. The building and the connection are worked out on designers level, while the road has also been calculated and tested in practice. Aluminium is concluded to be a suitable material for building on water due to its typical material properties. |
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| Keywords: |
Floating structures aluminium structures building on water
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