Posts Tagged ‘material’

Origins

Origins one hundred percent postconsumer recycled polyethylene panels provide an alternative to virgin polyethylene versions. Origins panels possess virtually identical properties compared with virgin panels, and they are available in numerous colors and patterns, including custom patterns. Origins material...

November 16th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

HoloPro

Originally developed at the Institute for Light and Building Technology, HoloPro is a transparent rear projection surface that is almost completely unaffected by surrounding ambient light, and may even be used in daylit environments. HoloPro consists of Holographic Optical Elements (HOE), which are exposed...

November 14th, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Light-Sensitive Concrete

Light-Sensitive Concrete is a technology that allows concrete to be sensitive to ambient light levels. It senses the luminosity distribution throughout a concrete surface and sends the data to a computer. By converting this data to various values within custom-designed software, one can control sound,...

November 6th, 2009 | concrete, feature | Read More

BL Special

Designed by Steven Holl with Nick Gelpi, Alberto Martinuzzo, and Alessandro Orsini, BL Special is a composite panel comprised of wood veneers and a proprietary substrate. BL Special was developed to overcome limitations presented by conventional composite panels when modified with a laser cutter. BL...

November 5th, 2009 | feature, wood | Read More

Bubble Glass

Developed by Penny Herscovitch and Dan Gottlieb, Bubble Glass contains perfect grids of tiny bubbles and a variety of bubble patterns. Bubble Glass originated during PadLAb’s 2004 architectural glass commission for a residence on the coast of Brazil. While attempting to create a colorful mesh pattern...

October 29th, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Bendywood

Bendywood is solid hardwood that can easily be bent while cold and dry to a radius of ten times its thickness. Thin sections can be bent by hand and thicker sections with the application of sufficient force. Handrails can be bent into shape, table edges can be profiled and then bent and glued into place,...

October 28th, 2009 | feature, wood | Read More

Stones

Tempered transparent glass is used in the construction industry for windows and other applications. Construction glass is often over-ordered to account for breakage during shipping and installation. Unused tempered glass from construction and renovation sites that cannot be processed any further often...

October 23rd, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Luminate

Luminate combines translucent plastic and wood strips in a rigid panel format, allowing light to filter through a material used for applications that would usually require an opaque surface. The material is a modified acrylic adhered to selected exotic timbers with a proprietary fusion process. The manufacturer...

October 21st, 2009 | wood | Read More

Reversacol

James Robinson is a world leader in the development of innovative photochromic dyes. Reversacol is a special dye that reversibly changes color upon exposure to ultraviolet sources, such as sunlight. Reversacol photochromic dyes are offered in twenty vibrant colors. There is also a range of unique single-molecule...

October 20th, 2009 | paint | Read More

IsoGrid

When a thin-wall structure is loaded in compression, it eventually reaches a point of instability, where the wall buckles out of plane. This buckling results in a loss in stiffness, which accelerates exponentially because of increased bending moment. This phenomena is referred to as an “exponential...

October 19th, 2009 | feature, metals | Read More