Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Methods & Materials

Timber is not only a sustainable material, it also creates warm, welcoming, sheltering spaces that offer an emotional quality to their users. Light on Wood is a very personal story about how to design and build with mass timber. Author Susan H. Jones, a native of the Pacific Northwest with its seemingly endless forests, founded atelierjones in Seattle some 20 years ago. This pioneering practice has since made a name for itself by working to decarbonize our built environment. It carefully investigated the behavior of wood in case of fire, in an effort to rewrite the code, and...

Basics Room Conditioning provides a basic understanding of the relationships of heating, ventilating and cooling, and explains the different possible levels of room conditioning.

Holz wird meist als "traditioneller" Werkstoff wahrgenommen. Seine Materialeigenschaften ermoglichen langst jedoch die Gestaltung von Freiformen und hochkomplexen Strukturen.

Das ursprunglich von Julius Natterer gegrundete Holzlabor der ETH Lausanne erprobt heute unter der Leitung von Professor Wienand mit digitalen Berechnungs- und computergestutzten Bearbeitungsmethoden die Herstellung von Origami-Strukturen, Rippenschalen, Gewebestrukturen und gekrummten Paneelen.
Diese Forschungsergebnisse werden in Prototypen erprobt, die so die Anwendungsmoglichkeiten fur gromastabliche...

Vollstandig uberarbeitet und erweitert: der erfolgreiche Band uber Einfamilienhauser

Glass Construction is one of the most varied and innovative areas of structural design. This volume helps to build an understanding of the construction material and its possible applications.