One for the road; a movable gallery created with great economy and ingenuity out of a common industrial product: technology transfer at its simplest and most effective. (Design Review).A competition organized by the BNA BNA Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. BNA Birds of North America BNA block numbering area (US Census) BNA British North America BNA Banco Nacional de Angola (National Bank of Angola) (Royal Dutch Institute of Architects) called for a cheap, temporary, movable pavilion. Light Building won second prize and the BNA set about finding a client for the idea. Parade, a summer travelling theatre troupe, backed the proposal as an art gallery that could accompany the players on their wanderings. The budget was extremely small, so the architects used one of the Netherlands' most common products, the beer crate, as the basic building block. Instead of the usual coloured crates Crates (krā`tēz), fl. 449 B.C., Athenian comic dramatist. He is said to have introduced into comedy themes other than those of personal satire, and he was one of the first to show the comic possibilities of the drunkard. that advertise the brewers' wares, the architects specified white translucent translucent slightly penetrable by light rays. plastic. So strength is obtained from the shape and material of the crates, while light can go through the 300mm thick walls they form. Crates are bolted together into easily liftable units six long and three high. Units are locked in place with steel rods running up the height of the walls, tensed by screwing bolts onto an angle iron at the top. Anchorage Anchorage (ăng`kərĭj), city (1990 pop. 226,338), Anchorage census div., S central Alaska, a port at the head of Cook Inlet; inc. 1920. is provided by spikes driven into the ground, and the floor is of wooden boards on sleepers????. The roof is of corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. steel panels. The whole thing, 15m long, four wide and six high, can be put up and taken down in a day by six people. The cost was about [euro]55 per cubic metre Noun 1. cubic metre - a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters cubic meter, kiloliter, kilolitre metric capacity unit - a capacity unit defined in metric terms , very cheap by West European standards. Externally, the grey building seems massive, with doors set to emphasize the thickness of the walls. Inside, the light is calm, soft and suitable for showing paintings, yet it is of course subject to the sky, with radical transformations when clouds cover the sun. With a good sunset, the walls glow with distant fire. This magic follows the acting company on its itinerary but, as the architects point out, if the clients get fed up with the pavilion, its elements can always be reused for carting beer bottles. Architect Ateller Kempe Thill thill n. Either of the two long shafts between which an animal is fastened when pulling a wagon. [Middle English thille, perhaps from Old English, plank.] Noun 1. Beer crates Schoeller Wavin Systems of Hardenberg Photographs Bastiaan IngenHousz |
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