MATERIALS USED IN BUILDING SHELL FROM PAST TO PRESENT

Abstract

Housing has an important place among the basic needs of people. People have surrounded this area they have built with different materials to protect it from the effects of the external environment. This is where the concept of the building shell emerged. Technology and discovered materials have an important place in the development process of the building envelope. Each discovery a new system, each system has revealed brand new innovative designs. The materials and properties used in the building envelopes in this historical process have played an active role in the development of the building envelope. In the last century, a new page has been opened in structural designs, especially with the contribution of new technological developments to architecture. With these developments, original designs and futuristic approaches at the desired level have come a long way in becoming reality. In this process from the past to the present, the building materials and features used have created today's architecture with the help of developing technology and it is expected to shape the architecture of the future with new technological developments. In this study, building shells from past to present were examined in detail with the material properties used.