Curiosities

[|50 Strange Buildings of the World]
 A collection of strange architectures found around the world, Often defying the Laws of Nature, Some Brought from the future with impossible curves, inverted houses, built on cliffs and entries Which look like a chasm

A German fairytale castle.
Very near the border of Austria, Germany , is a jewel of architecture , Neuschwanstein Castle , one of the most visited tourist destinations in Europe. This magnificent work was built around the late nineteenth century, means New swan stone, and is named after the Swan Knight of Wagner's famous opera of the same name.

Located in the region of Fuessen, was an ancient city surrounded by castles , monasteries and castles. The impressive mountains of the Alps with natural waterfalls and mirrored lakes, make this an incredible landscape.


 * The Ark: a hotel for climate change **

The ark is a conceptual hotel created in response to concerns about the consequences of climate change. It is a self-sustaining building with solar panels, heat capture system and rainwater harvesting. The design so far is only conceptual, is the work of the Russian firm Remistudio architecture. Its creators claim that this huge hotel can withstand flooding, as its fleet structure. It is designed as a bioclimatic building within which they can grow all kinds of plants The staggered balconies serve as social and leisure areas. source of information: [|www.planetacurioso.com]

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 *  Structures or why things do not fall ?

 SYNOPSIS With a fun and relaxed style, this book explains the importance andproperties of different types of structures. Regardless of themathematical apparatus are described simply and accurately thebasic structural concepts.

The book provides a conceptual and historical development of thelaw of Hooke, exploring the idea of stress and strain , introducesthe concept of safety factor and of modern fracture mechanics , deals with issues on the break in tension , compression, shear , bending and twisting , and discusses how some systems workstructural arches , walls, beams , dams, and bridges. In its nearly400 pages covering much of the science of the theory of structuresand strength of materials, and always friendly and easy. This book is written looking to escape the raids concepts and complex mathematics. Just listed some fundamental formulas of strength of materials and elasticity.


 * Structural design

SYNOPSIS  This book claims that his reader, usually in a hurry, please have areminder of simple methods to help you have an order of magnitude of some structural problems.

 This ensures an approach to the phenomenon, not an exact matchit. An approach in which the time spent is fifty times smaller than that used in making a more accurate number, in exchange for admittinga small deviation of the result , simpre the side of safety.