CONTINUOUS / JOINTS

Definition/ Content: Continuing in time or space without interruption. / Composed and constructed by the addition of smaller parts.

Objective: The student must acquire the knowledge of how to construct a continuous element and how to control and design the construction systems of the joints (structural and constructive joints).
From the flashing to the “dry architecture”.

Materials and construction elements related: Covers, facades, opennings, ceilings, foundations.

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Nature:
Skin versus scale.
Other Technologies:
Boats, tower crane, pneumatics, sincroton.