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August 17, 2012October 23, 2012

Building Biomembranes

By Mark Laurence 0 Comment on Building Biomembranes

I have this concept going on in my mind (first wrote about it in 2007) about the exterior surface of buildings being like a living membrane or “biomembrane” (a term for the exterior surface of a cell), and having direct interactions between the internal and external building space, regulating such things as temperature, humidity, air

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