Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Polyurea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurea

Ben Van Berkel:  Polyurea over rubber base (hot fluid-applied roof membrane?) over 2 layers bendable plywood.  Says he would have liked 3-4 more layers on the New Amsterdam Pavilion to make it smoother.

A supplier http://www.versaflex.com/
http://www.versaflex.com/images/polyurea.pdf.pdf

Some Polyurea projects:

UN Studio:  http://www.archdaily.com/34788/new-amsterdam-pavilion-unstudio/
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MVRDV:  http://www.modeloos.nl/?p=602

Not Polyurea, but a similar idea by MooMoo:
http://archide.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/house-by-moomoo-architects-lodz-poland/