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Date: | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:01:59 -0200 |
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> ...being necessary to the "health" of a building, by protecting the
> parapets and major drops from rain, why are they essentially absent
> from contempo architecture?
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> Christopher
> -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
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The systems thinking in respect of how the building skin interfaces with
water has changed with the development of materials and building technology.
Glass in particular, most panel systems, including granite sheets, are
generally less pervious to water and therefore require less protection
than brick, limestone or TC w/ mortar joints.
Improvements in sealant technology. Fewer nooks & crannies etc. make it
that water flows more evenly in sheets and not in patterns that
concentrate water flow in funnel streams.
The whole difference of curtain wall construction.
The protection moved from the cornice into the fabric of the field of
the elevation.
The form follows function aesthetic (in my estimation largely abandoned
with all of the unmaintainable twisty glass buildings being built
currently).
If a cornice is not needed then why be retro?
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