Reports: Structures for Pleasure

Temporary roof over a ruin in Marrakech, 2012; design: Barkow Leibinger Architects
Nowadays, architects and structural planners work much more closely and collegially together than they did in the past. This is testified by various schemes, like that developed at the California Polytechnic State University, where the students wanted to create a comfortable environment for browsing (ills. 1, 2). They agreed upon a suspended structure made from plastic sheeting, which is reasonable...
Temporary roof over a ruin in Marrakech, 2012; design: Barkow Leibinger Architects