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Design and construct seating furniture from plywood! Inspired by the famous L-leg designed by the architect Alvar Aalto for the Finnish furniture company Artek, an experimental study project investigated the potential and design possibilities of glued and bent wood. In close cooperation with Artek, twenty-eight students of architecture at the ETH Zürich worked together with students of object design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts to not only turn this material on its head but also question the sensuous qualities of these objects, their construction as an architectural place, and sitting as a social event. The volume Formful Wood: Explorative Furniture presents the surprising and unknown aspects of a well-known material, illuminates the respective creation processes, and reflects on its context in diverse essays. With contributions by Nicolai de Gier, Florian Hauswirth, Sebastian Kraft, Mario Rinke, Christoph Schindler, and Alessandro Oreste Tellini

The seismic response of bridges seismically isolated by lead-rubber bearings (LRB) or friction pendulum systems (FPS) to earthquake excitations of different magnitudes is discussed in this book. The specific purpose of the study is to assess the effect of seismic isolation on the peak response of bridges subjected to different base accelerations ranging from 0.05 g to 0.5 g in the horizontal direction transversal to the bridge axis. Thus a certain level of efficiency can be shown in respect of the particular bearing modification. Furthermore, the effect of superstructure stiffness (i.e. pier stiffness, pier layout) on the isolator efficiency is investigated in depth. To study the effectiveness of LRB and FPS, the seismic response of isolated bridges is also compared with the response of corresponding nonisolated bridges (i.e. bridges without isolation devices). The book shows well prepared all relevant results and the important links between them.