Designing Lightness - Structures for Saving Energy (by Ed van Hinte, Adriaan Beukers)

The Canadians took this very seriously. (Hey, we never thought of it that way!) He showed them plans of domed cities, cities with no basements, no foundations. Cities that could be moved in a minute.

Designing Lightness - Structures for Saving Energy (by Ed van Hinte, Adriaan Beukers)

Published on Mar 18, 2020

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This book is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. Designing Lightness entertains the reader with its free associations, creating unexpected crosslinks between the world of composite materials and structural solutions. It therefore precedes the conventional approach to sustainability, which focuses on symptoms rather than causes of environmental overload. The book is of interest to all designing disciplines, combining packaging, vehicles, skyscrapers and nanoscale phenomena. Adriaan Beukers is an emeritus professor in Lightweight Structures. Ed van Hinte is a writer and award-winning critic with a design and engineering background. The book is the extended and improved sequel to their book ‘Lightness’, which appeared in 1998.

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