{"id":121,"date":"2012-05-23T22:52:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compositesandarchitecture.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2012-05-23T22:54:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:54:01","slug":"composite-clad-passenger-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Composite Clad Passenger Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-121-1' class='gallery gallery-121'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.55-PM.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.55-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.49.05-PM.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.49.05-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.46-PM.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.46-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.36-PM.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.36-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.10-PM.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.10-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.20-PM.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-3.48.20-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n<p>This relatively new airport terminal in Uruguay was designed by architect\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvapc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Vi\u00f1oly<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in the shape of a paraglider. This\u00a0form, while seductive in its low lying curved profile,\u00a0introduced a number of\u00a0challenges due to its three axis of curvature and\u00a0design suction forces of\u00a0up to 1.8 kPa.<\/p>\n<p>IIFC\u2019s report states \u201cMVC\u2019s eventual solution was to cover the\u00a0bottom surface with sandwich panels made of composite plates having a gelcoat finish and expanded polystyrene and polyurethane core. These were\u00a0attached to the building\u2019s main structure by a secondary aluminum structure so as to allow for the\u00a0correction of imperfections present in the main structure. 24,000 m\u00b2 of panels were supplied and\u00a0assembled, without interfering with the other activities at the construction site, over a period of 9 months.\u201d\u00a0Read more\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iifc-hq.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/FRP-International-Vol-8-No-3-July-2011-website-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>photos via\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvapc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rvapc.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This relatively new airport terminal in Uruguay was designed by architect\u00a0Rafael Vi\u00f1oly\u00a0in the shape of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}