[TheForge] Stainless

Mon Apr 15 04:52:00 2002

   I wonder if Mr. Gehery ever took a piece of titanium he had spec'd
out for a building skin, outside and left it sit to see if it reacted?
If he did, did he ever consider that the air pollution in the cities
he would place the Ti. buildings, might have corrosive properties to
TI?  So many people are taught to ignore empirical evidence that it
never occurs to them that someone else made a mistake in the
engineering data they are using.  We learned to "get a piece of that
stuff" and check it out hands on, before we planned a project in a
material we had only read about.

   I would hope that's the case here, not just an assumption that Ti.
would always be ok anywhere... and that the Ti. spec'd was the Ti.
delivered.   One would hope that an architect of that caliber had at
least done his "book work" on the material he was planning on using.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Stainless

> Except do not talk to the trustees of the Gugenheim Museum in
Bilbao,
> Spain, one of the Gehry Titanium architectural efigees. THe titanium
> skin is oxidizing quite alarmingly. Not too different visually, I am
> told to aluminum oxidation on old raw aluminum screen doors. I was
told
> that they are suing him and his firm for restoration and a possible
> replacement facade.
> Ray
> Cincinnati
>
> Rick & Kims Email wrote:
>
> >There is the Architecture school in North Carolina that makes
> >buildings out of things not usually classified as building
materials
> >such as car windshields, carpet squares, tires and rammed earth.
They
> >recently had an exhibit in the Smithsonian.  Frank Gehery  likes to
> >use titanium for the outer skin of his buildings.  He maintains
that
> >because of it's inertness and long life, and lack of maintenance,
it
> >has the lowest life cycle cost for a building exterior.
> >
> >Perhaps you could use them to make a stainless steel outhouse
> >
> >Rick Korinek
> >Emerald City Forge
> >Framingham, MA
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