Materials+Review



** Stone, brick, iron & steel, and concrete ** Nowadays are so many material that we, as designers, planners and builders of city, can use. In particular each of them has some particularities that could be an advantage or a disadvantage. I just go to talk about stone, brick, iron, steel and concrete. In first, stone is maybe the oldest material of all, it comes from earth and it provides durability and strength to the things that we make of it. Also this material is not easy to use because it requires some techniques to work it. Comparing with others, stone is the strongest material and nowadays is not used so much. Also we have the brick which is older than others but is not the oldest material. Brick has been used a lot in a time and nowadays the techniques of made brick has been evolved; So, nowadays we can find bricks made of almost everything. The brick need techniques to the using of it, this techniques is called brick laying techniques and there are a lot of brick laying techniques. Besides we have the Iron and steel witch are material of 20th and 21st century in construction areas. The iron was the first witch have been used, around the world there are some structures and builds made of it but as it haves some disadvantages the people had create the steel, which contains iron as well and others components, this material is better than the iron because is strongest, most elastic and it provides the best durability and shape to the construction or build. Both of them are metals and are very famous in the construction or building industry nowadays. Finally we ha concrete, Concrete have been created by Romans and later became famous worldwide, nowadays is a very common used material, because of its strength and durability. In conclusion we have a very large acquis of construction materials, so we can use any of them and make, according with our convenience, perfects buildings. 

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