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Mix 23 - February 2008
Mix 23 focuses on issues associated with the insulation of concrete structures for improved energy efficiency, with particular relevance to residential design and new provisions of the Building Code of Australia. It includes an example of a fully insulated concrete house designed by Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo; and recent approaches to ‘warm'and ‘cold' concrete in the design of two apartment buildings in the Victorian Alps by Salter Architects. Mixtips provides a case study of earth coupling thermal mass in a house designed for precast concrete panel construction with a concrete floor slab in Bethanga Victoria by tUG workshop. The specification guideline outlines the design of concrete roof slabs with the installation of green roof systems for energy efficiency and reduced heat transfer; followed by a survey of research initiatives which have emerged in these applications over the past 40 years.
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Mix 22 - April 2007
Presented in this issue: a new type of beach house at Gunyah Beach, New South Wales; a house in Carlton Victoria that the architect describes as '...an economic decision and matter of common sense' as opposed to an essay in materiality; guidelines for mix design; and an article on layered expression at Frank Lloyd Wrights's Fallingwater. MIX tips present a Perth concrete panel townhouse project where high quality, low-cost and integral structure and finish has been achieved.
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Mix 21 - October 2006
Mix 21 focuses on composite concrete construction and outlines a range of conventional materials and innovative applications in recent residential design. Mixtips provides a case study of an insulated lightweight cement sheet which combines with a slab-on-ground construction for thermal advantage. The specification guideline outlines key performance considerations associated with thermal systems design.
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Mix 20 - May 2006
Mix 20 focuses on issues associated with the design and manufacture of precast concrete with particular relevance to residential design. It includes an example of a portable precast building at the Macarthur Gardens Estate in Sydney, which uses three basic elements for the wall, floor and roof panels; recent residential work by Bernard Seeber in Western Australia is also covered providing innovative design solutions in the use of reverse precast veneer construction; Mixtips provides a case study of waterproof precast panels in basement applications. The pecification guideline describes the basic manufacturing and erection tolerances associated with precast construction, and how these impact on design solutions by illustrative example.
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Mix 19 - December 2005
Mix 19 focuses on the concept of spanning with concrete. It reviews the construction of a house in Brisbane by Donovan Hill; the engineering of a concrete roof vault by Caruso St John Architects in London; and concrete slabs in an inner metropolitan site house extension in East Malvern, Victoria. The specification guideline focuses on repairing concrete finishes while the commentary article looks at current trends in heritage conservation associated with a new appreciation of post-war concrete houses.
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Mix 18 - July 2005
Mix 18 focuses on concrete houses. It reviews the thermal performance of a reverse block veneer house in the Southern Highlands of NSW; an in-situ off-form house in Mt Macedon in Victoria; and provides tips for rendering concrete blockwork to achieve a monolithic surface as recently achieved at the N-House in Brisbane. The specification guideline focuses on how to improve the energy efficiency of house design using concrete while the commentary article looks at the total concrete house.
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Mix 16 - November 2004
This issue details the innovative ground plane of patterned insitu concrete at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne; the YBE 2004 concrete house prototype in Sydney; how to specify raw materials for coloured concrete; the development of prefabricated concrete systems housing in Australia, including Walter Burley Griffin's Knitlock; and mix tips provides a case study of post-tensioned concrete roofs through an analysis of Woolamai House in Victoria.
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Mix 17 - March 2005
This issue details innovative photo-etched artwork recently achieved in two public projects in Perth; new precast solutions for the University of South Australia; basic considerations for the specification of form liners for modelled concrete surfaces; historical approaches to off-form concrete construction as a technique; and mix tips provides a case study of the exposed concrete floor finishes which have been recently achieved at the Mint Building in Sydney.
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Mix 15 - July 2004
Presented in this issue: precast concrete articulation & texture at St Margaret's Redevelopment NSW; a single-room residential extension, Thornbury Vic; specifying paint for concrete walls; Rudolf Schindler's Kings Road House, North Hollywood; etching images into concrete.
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Mix 14 - March 2004
This issue features the pixellation of concrete components, whether concrete masonry or large precast concrete panels. Featured projects include the Quinlan House and GPN3 St Lucia Campus with the use of brise solei; Concrete masonry is featured with both a specification guide as well as an article on concrete tracery; MIX Tips on re-usable precast panels.
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