Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Methods & Materials

The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at the conference on Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning that was held in Mierlo, the Netherlands in July 1992. This conference was organized as one of the events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology. The organizing committee had a strong feeling that many interesting developments in this area were emerging within different institutional frameworks and informal networks that do not interact...

Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers, illustrators, and renderers.
Contents include a review of materials and tools of rendering; handling the pen and building tones; value studies; kinds of outline and their uses; drawing...

Housing is one of the most expensive building types to construct. With 24/7 occupancy, multi-family buildings can also be some of the toughest to maintain. Prepared by one of the nation's leading experts on multi-family housing, Preventive Maintenance for Multi-Family Housing puts easy-to-use guidelines right at your fingertips for the what, when, why and how much of multi-family preventive maintenance.

Field tested in a range of apartment communities, it puts everything you need - all in one place - to:

• Conduct a current maintenance audit of all major interior and...

This manual was prepared primarily for use in conducting a practical training course on the design of solar heating and cooling systems for residential and small office buildings, but may also be useful as a general reference text. Only active solar systems are described in this manual. Other books are available for passive designs. Liquid and air-heating solar systems for combined space and service water heating or service water heating only are included in this manual. Furthermore, only systems with proven experience are discussed to any extent. This manual was developed by the staff of the...

This manual was prepared primarily for use in conducting a practical training course on the design of solar heating and cooling of residential buildings. The text is directed toward sizing, installation, operation, and maintenance of solar systems for space heating and hot water supply, and solar cooling is treated only briefly. The solar systems described in this manual are primarily for residential applications and one- and two-story office-type buildings. This manual was developed by the staff of the Solar Energy Applications Laboratory and vocational education specialists at Colorado...

This book starts, by explaining briefly the origins of wind. It then proceeds to the normal forms of presentation for wind data, and explains how each is used in the appropriate analysis. The general aerodynamics of bluff bodies is explained in Chapter 2.Wind loading, wind environment, rain, ventilation, fire and effluent from chimneys are considered in the following chapters. Experimental methods are discussed in the penultimate chapter. Up to this point, theory and practice are discussed, and no design data are presented.Necessary statistics insofar as they concern the earlier chapter...

This is a must-have comprehensive resource and reference book for anyone who has to develop, manage, or use enterprise architectures. It is the perfect companion to the Department of Defense's "Architecture Framework." (Architecture)

New materials and stricter energy-efficiency requirements have brought about radical changes in timber construction in recent years. Whether built on site or pre-fabricated, this publication provides a concise survey of modern timber construction, the materials and their applications.

Der Werkstoff Beton erlaubt gerade bei vorgefertigten Elementen eine groe Bandbreite skulpturaler Formen und gestalterischer Moglichkeiten. Dieses Buch gibt einen systematischen Uberblick zu den Anwendungsmoglichkeiten solcher Betonelemente in ganz Europa. Eine Auswahl besonders interessanter Projekte wird ausfuhrlich dokumentiert und gibt eine Fulle von Anregungen fur den Entwurf.

This international edition has been extended to incorporate a chapter on facade techniques in the construction section, and the charts now include a selection of the 80 most sought after European stone types. The uses of dressed stone are shown in detailed drawings on a scale of 1:10, and particular attention is paid to the joints and specific related problems.

Eight essays by noted authors such as Antoine Picon, Adrian Forty, Guy Nordenson, Franz Ulm, and others shed light on specific aspects of this material and its new forms. Scattered throughout the book are also 30 attractive recent buildings, which illustrate and exemplify these developments.

The future belongs to the sun. The use of solar energy in new construction has been growing rapidly, and in response to that success, interest in retrofitting the technology to older buildings is increasing. "Solar Design" features case studies of more than 30 realized projects, demonstrating how photovoltaic systems can be consciously and discriminatingly installed as structural design elements, and creatively ntegrated into historic buildings, monuments and existing urban landscapes. A survey of relevant technologies proves them increasingly compact and flexible. Hermannsd rfer and Rb bring...

Geometrie steckt im Kern des architektonischen Entwurfsprozesses. Sie ist omniprasent, von den ersten Schritten der Formfindung bis zur eigentlichen Konstruktion. Moderne Konstruktionsgeometrie bietet eine Reihe von Werkzeugen fur effizientes Entwerfen, Analyse und die Herstellung komplexer Formen. Das fuhrt zu neuen Herausforderungen, sowohl in der Architektur als auch in der Geometrie. Architekturgeometrie ist daher als integrative Forschungsaufgabe zu sehen, die an der Grenze zwischen angewandter Geometrie und Architektur angesiedelt ist. Architekturgeometrie wurde als Lehrbuch fur...

Architekten, Innenarchitekten und Designer finden in diesem Buch eine auf ihre Belange zugeschnittene Einfuhrung in den naturwissenschaftlichen Hintergrund, eine kritische Diskussion der Vorzuge und Grenzen dieser Technologie und eine umfassende, mit zahlreichen internationalen Projektbeispielen belegte Darstellung der bau- und designrelevanten Eigenschaften und Funktionen von Nanomaterialien.

Eine Einfuhrung zum Entwerfen und Bauen mit ETFE-Folien. Das Buch ist als fundiertes Grundlagenwerk konzipiert, das sowohl Materialeigenschaften wie technologische und konstruktive Verwendungsmoglichkeiten grundsatzlich und umfassend vermittelt.

An indispensable standard work for everyone involved in building with wood. This work uses plans, schematic drawings, and pictures to show the current and forward-looking state of the technology as applied in Switzerland, a leading country in the field of timber construction.