Concrete in flight

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The Foster/Arup design for the American air museum in Duxford, England, had to overcome a number of unusual design challenges. It was necessary to make the roof strong enough to suspend aircraft from, for example, and this was achieved by working from a torus shape. The internal environment of the building had to be extremely controllable, and for this reason it was decided to build in concrete, rather than steel, which would have been less expensive for the same structural performance. The concrete shell is in two layers, with inverted T-beams being joined to form the inner skin and structural webs.

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Steel makes space for stone

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The Stones Museum in Margam, Wales, has undergone renovation work to remedy problems which were causing damage to its collection of ancient stones. The project also incorporated work to make the former school building and its collection more attractive to the modern visitor. A group from the Welsh School of Architecture took on the project. They designed a new visitor route which incorporates a gallery to enable viewing from different angles. The gallery is constructed from steel and supported by steel columns. One large stone is displayed on a cantilevered steel platform.

Usage, Art museums, Wales, Steel

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Sharing a vision of reality

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A number of significant developments are taking place in computer visualization. There is growing interest in wide-field displays as attention becomes focused on projecting non-critical information into the peripheral field and the need to support small group working increases. There are also developments taking place in stereoscopic visualization, with digital cameras being used to track the movement of people in a room and the positional data being used to control the projectors, forming a stereo image tailored to where people are viewing.

Computer vision, Product development, Machine vision

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