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(2005) Disappearing architecture, Basel, Birkhäuser.
The Blur Building is an exhibition pavilion built for Swiss Expo 2002 on Lake Neuchatel in the town of Yverdon-les-Bains. It is an architecture of atmosphere. Its lightweight tensegrity structure measures 300 ft wide by 200 ft deep by 75 ft high. It streches over a total of 80,000 square feet. The primary building material is indigenous to the site, water. Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through a dense array of high-pressure mist nozzles. The resulting fog mass produced is a dynamic interplay of natural and man-made forces.
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Diller, E. , Scofidio, R. (2005)., Architecture as a habitable medium, in G. Flachbart & P. Weibel (eds.), Disappearing architecture, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 184-195.
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