Metal Coat of Modern Architecture

Abstract:

There has been a long history of applying metal to architecture. At the beginning, they just appeared in the structure of bridges, factories and storages, and then gradually turned up as a form of building structural materials in civil architecture such as markets, schools and office buildings. So all the time, metal like steel structure or hardware impresses people as a kind of industrialized building materials. With the development of architectural technology and the researching of characteristics of building materials, metal material has been brought in building skin design with brand-new appearance, and coruscate new vitality in the field of architectural design depending on full of variety of expressions and economic environmental character.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 357-360)
• Pages: 1379-1382
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.357-360.1379
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Tie Xin Dong*
• Keywords: Architecture, Epidermis, Metal Material, Sense of Contemporaneity

References

[1] Chu Zhiyong, Material Language In Architectural Design(2002), China Electric Power Press.

[2] Yang Fenghe, Collection Of Frank Gehry(2002), Tianjin University Press.