Technology: Transparent Architecture - Building with ETFE Membranes

Plastic sheeting, as used in architecture today, allows the creation of building skins that are unsurpassed in their permeability to light and UV radiation. The fluoropolymer material ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) has proved most effective in this context. Its extremely low weight (350 g/m2 for a thickness of 200 µm), its high permeability to light, its great chemical resistance to acids and...