Victoria & Albert Museum,London
He was the structural brain behind Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre, and his empire now numbers 12000 people. Three decades after his death, and a new prove celebrates the 20th century’s most influential engineerTanks of algae burp and bubble in the entrance to the V&A’s new exhibition,a shop window of eerie green gunge that gurgles absent beneath a huge steel bracket the size of an aeroplane wing. The green slime might be the future of your double-glazing. It’s a revolutionary new bio-reactive facade system, which uses glass sandwich panels of microalgae to generate heat and biomass from photosynthesis to heat buildings. The broad bracket, or meanwhile,is a model of a gerberette from the facade of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. It’s what allows all the guts of the building to hang there, mid-air, and freeing up the gallery floors inside.
Designing is defining a sensible way of buildingArup enthusiastically adopted a computer the size of several fridges,which he nicknamed the Mumbo JumboContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com