Hi, a great friend reproached me than, reading my articles, he was waiting with joy that I visited his island ("his" because it is your property, not because he live there). I had not forgotten the Oak Island, which is on the South coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, and has been busy since they found what appeared to be signs of a pirate treasure in 1795. The island is pretty flat (the highest point has only 11 meters) I can build a true work of art!
Even the same
Franklin Delano Roosebelt was linked to this curious Island, before becoming
President of the United States of America, and long before declaring the war on
Germany in 1941, but let the historical quotations and we go to the
our: the construction of a future building has led me by several countries of the
world, finding materials and construction systems worthy of seeing, and this
time, as it could not be less, I bring you a wonderful material: the Titanium.
We're going to go to California but we are not
going to enjoy the summer or to investigate failures, we are going to go for
see in action the titanium, we're going to go from culture to the Cerritos
library (You know how I like libraries) which is located
in the Civic Centre of the city. This library was built in the year 2002 given
that the original building of 1985 was staying obsolete, as the Californians are
very clever, they took advantage of the circumstances to build this modern
architectural landmark designed by Charles Walton
Associates, also was the first building of USA on be protected with titanium, this
building is a pioneer!
The library is at the forefront of
the technology, and it has his credit a space highly thematic, also is a
experimental library (the experts call it thus). It includes an area for
children with a large Aquarium of 14,000 gallons (53,000 liters of nothing)
with saltwater, has the skeleton of a T-Rex (dinosaur) and a space shuttle,
children are delighted. For the older, they have more than 200 workstations
(computers), a few interior finishes of high level and an extensive art
collection that is the (healthy) envy of the community. The building is divided
into three floors and everything inside it is described previously but, in
addition, exist a conference room, a technology laboratory and a kitchen. This project was made by the Building
Information Management (BIM), this system creates virtually the building and
all of its components, resolving possible conflicts in the construction before
placing the first stone, of course, today the most studies of architecture
and engineering use the BIM system.
Properties of Titanium
The titanium is a metal very
prolific in the nature, with a very light weight compared to other metals, a
great resistance and an immunity without equal to atmospheric agents, resists
very well the pollutants agents, the marine environments, the atmospheres with sulphide
of industrial areas and other harsh environments.
The colour of the titanium is silver clear, bright and reflective, and
keeps its shine with the passage of the years. When this metal
oxidizes creates a protective surface that plays with the light, so that it
changes of colour depending on the point of view of the viewer. This material
has a durability so good that, if you're a manufacturer, you can offer a
warranty of centuries of antiquity without having to worry about (if there are mortgages
with centuries of antiquity ... Why no guarantees?).
Another significant feature is its low expansion, this is almost
comparable with the concrete, which makes that we can perform large sheets with
this material and thus saving us a lot of work of placement and we can design
with greater freedom. As its weight is very low, about of 4,500
kilograms per cubic meter (the steel weighs 7,800 kg/m3) eases us quite the
placement as a coating material, in fact, in construction, due to all the
features that we have described, the mass use is on facades, roofs, walls and
columns. Needless to say that the titanium is also known outside the
construction: medicine, automobile, shipbuilding and aeronautics, jewellery
and, of course, in the watch industry.
Titanium
Crystal
El titanio empleado en la biblioteca de Cerritos tiene también
otra particularidad: está patentado. La
empresa Architectural Titanium ha
logrado crear el cristal de titanio, y, como no podía ser de otra forma, lo
patentó para poder fabricarlo en exclusiva. Se crea moliendo el titanio en finas
partículas e introduciéndolas en hornos capaces de crear el vacío absoluto
(como si estuvieran en el espacio exterior); el horno se calienta de forma
gradual hasta el punto de fusión haciendo que la estructura cristalina cambie
(de cristales hexagonales a cúbicos alineados) y creando un nuevo material que
no tiene igual entre los metales, con una impresionante estética que no deja
indiferente a nadie.
The titanium used in the Cerritos
library also has another peculiarity: is patented. The Architectural Titanium Company has managed to create the Crystal of
titanium, and, as it could not be otherwise, patented it to manufacture it
exclusively. It creates milling the titanium on fine particles
and introducing them in furnaces capable of creating the absolute vacuum (as if
they were in the outer space); the furnace is heated gradually to the melting
point changing the crystalline structure (of hexagonal crystal to cubic
aligned) and creating a new material that has no equal among the metals, with
an impressive look that leaves no one indifferent.
As that my name is Rodolfo that I will have titanium in any location of
my new building, provided that does not emerge a better titanium, clear. Bye
bye
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario