Posts Tagged ‘interior’

Sunlight Tubes

Scientists are developing a technology to save energy by transmitting sunlight into buildings through tubes. Indoor electric lighting is the largest consumer of electricity in commercial buildings, according to researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Their new system,...

March 14th, 2006 | feature, light | Read More

BubbleDeck

BubbleDeck is a method of virtually eliminating all concrete from the middle of a floor slab not performing any structural function, thereby dramatically reducing structural dead weight. BubbleDeck is based on a new patented technique which involves the direct way of linking air and steel. Void formers...

February 27th, 2006 | concrete | Read More

Flex-C Trac

Flex-Ability Concepts manufactures the Flex-C Trac system, which is a construction product used to build curved metal or wood structures. It can be used to frame curved walls, barrel ceilings, wavy ceilings, s-curves and columns. Architects like Flex-C Trac because the strength, quality and uniformity...

February 23rd, 2006 | metals | Read More

Vacuum Insulation Panels

Cars and homes have at least one thing in common: they consume energy in the form of oil or gas. Energy-efficient vehicles typically make use of lightweight materials and improved engine technologies, and soon home builders will also need to pay greater attention to environmental concerns in their designs....

February 13th, 2006 | feature, mineral | Read More

Trespa

Trespa Meteon is an extremely weather resistant panel material, unaffected by sunlight, rain – including “acid rain” – or moisture. The phenolic-based material is also highly impact resistant, and the surface of the panel has a closed structure, which does not attract dirt and makes deliberate...

January 10th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Spacer

Spacer is a high-tech upholstery fabric with a three-dimensional look. Visually, it appears to be three separate fabrics that have been connected. This look is achieved by a complex knitting process allowing all layers to be knitted at once which makes it incredibly strong. This structure makes the fabric...

January 8th, 2006 | textile | Read More

Image-Mesh

Image-Mesh is a video wall comprised of a plastic mesh embedded with tiny, pixel-addressable 3-in-1 RGB LEDs. Its panel structure is unobtrusive, lightweight, and may be easily erected and dismantled. It can be bent to a radius of 0.5m. Each 0.9m x 0.9m panel ‘module’ weighs just 1.5kg and...

December 9th, 2005 | light | Read More

Almute

Almute is an engineered metal panel that absorbs sound. Manufactured by Peer Inc., Almute represents the culmination of many years of development in advanced sintering and fine-grain metal processing. Peer Inc. mixes aluminum grains mixed with pre-alloyed metal powders and forms them into rigid panels...

November 18th, 2005 | metals | Read More

SmartSlab

The SmartSlab has been described as the world’s toughest digital video display for walls, floors, billboards and buildings. Each slab is designed in a honeycomb structure inspired by the optics of a fly’s eye. Instead of using standard pixels it uses hexels (hexagonal pixels) that provide...

November 11th, 2005 | interactive | Read More

Profilit

Pilkington Profilit is a translucent cast glass structural glazing system which consists of a series of self-supporting glass channels within an extruded metal perimeter frame. The system is relatively cost-effective, and well-suited for exterior and interior curved wall applications. The long, sweeping...

November 5th, 2005 | glass | Read More