Technical Feature – Page 61

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    Heavenly sounds

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Heaven 17 founder Martyn Ware is now making his mark as an acoustic designer.

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    In detail 03: Digital Studio, Oxford Brookes School of the Built Environment

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    The studio for architectural students occupies the top floor of a 1960s concrete framed building. To counteract the resonance of the hard surfaces, a series of profiled Melatech foam sound-absorbing baffles are suspended on isolating hangers from the ceiling.

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    Sounds of silence

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Foam baffles have transformed a noisy design studio in Oxford.

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    Techbrief

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    The Green Bottle Unit, a Hackney-based 100% recycled glass outfit has scaled up. It can now produce large sheets of recycled glass suitable for floors, walls, external cladding and tabletops (shown left)."We have just cracked this process and I believe we are the only glass recycling company in the ...

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    Clash over school acoustics

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Quiet controversy is reverberating around the acoustic design world.

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    Technicalities: Poured out

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Just what is it that makes today's poured floors so different, so appealing? Everybody's doing it from the year-out student to Rem. It is the latest fashion and even features on the make-over TV shows. Just add water, mix and pour; leave for 24 hours, and there you have it ...

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    Printing buildings

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Textile design duo Eley Kishimoto have teamed up with 6A Architects to create screen-printed panels for an art installation. But, as Amanda Birch reports, it is an idea that could spread to buildings

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    Cover versions

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Eley Kishimoto's distinctive prints cover furniture, tea sets, wallpaper, globetrotter cases and, of course, clothes, and soon its flash print will encase Nokia phones.

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    In detail 02: Bedford School Library

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    The library has a curved brick upper storey with a barrel vault roof. A long window at ground floor looks out on playing fields.

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    Revisions tackle safety issues

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Our specialist updates you on key changes to codes and regulations

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    Techbrief

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Recycled paper-based insulating material (cellulose) has already proven a good insulant in residen-tial loft and timber-frame con-struction. But it may soon prove to be an excellent insulation material when paired with steel cladding.The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) has just completed 18 months of research which investigated existing cellulose products and ...

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    Oysters give pearly sheen to Roman shell

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Muf chose an unusual material for a park building on a Roman site in St Albans.

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    In detail 01: Verulamium Hypocaust Building, St Albans

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    A mosaic floor and hypocaust from a ruined villa in the Roman city of Verulamium are enclosed and protected by a single storey building. Disturbance of the ground has been minimised by using 24 micro-piles , threaded perforated tubes 30mm in diameter, which are drilled into the ground and pumped ...

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    Face painting

    2004-04-16T00:00:00Z

    A revamped Young Vic Theatre will be clad with 160 abstract paintings writes Pamela Buxton

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    Sonic truth

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Arup Acoustics' SoundLab enables architects to hear the acoustic properties of a building before it is constructed.