Technical Materials

Apart from the strictly physicals aspects of the basic matters adequate for building purposes as discussed in the preceding chapter, their special characteristics as technical materials also need to be taken into account, i.e. as materials which are employed in the context of a particular building task and are supposed to fulfill functions which go beyond the merely mechanical of physical ones, as already noted in a previous chapter. Technical materials are also subject to a particular perception by the onlooker and, through their properties, they strongly influence the design process of the overall building.