Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Methods & Materials

Concrete Design covers concrete design fundamentals for architects and engineers, such as tension, flexural, shear, and compression elements, anchorage, lateral design, and footings. As part of the Architect s Guidebooks to Structures Series it provides a comprehensive overview using both imperial and metric units of measurement. Written by experienced professional structural engineers Concrete Design is beautifully illustrated, with more than 170 black and white images, contains clear examples that show all design steps, and provides rules of thumb and simple tables for initial sizing. A...

Concrete Design covers concrete design fundamentals for architects and engineers, such as tension, flexural, shear, and compression elements, anchorage, lateral design, and footings. As part of the Architect's Guidebooks to Structures Series it provides a comprehensive overview using both imperial and metric units of measurement. Written by experienced professional structural engineers Concrete Design is beautifully illustrated, with more than 170 black and white images, contains clear examples that show all design steps, and provides rules of thumb and simple...

Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and theory of artificial life, the theory of human-computer interaction, tangible computing, and the social studies of technology. Author Socrates Yiannoudes proposes tools and frameworks...

Introduction to Structures - the lead book in the Architect s Guidebook to Structures series - presents structures in simple, accessible fashion through beautiful illustrations, worked examples, and from the perspective of practicing professionals with a combined experience of over 75 years.

It introduces the student to, and reminds the practitioner of, fundamental structural design principles. Beginning by introducing structural forms in nature and history, the process of design, and selecting structural systems and materials, the book then moves onto statics,...

Holzarchitektur vermittelt der heutigen Zeit das vielfaltige Wissen westlicher und ostlicher Kulturen uber den schopferischen Umgang mit diesem unverwechselbaren Material. Aus einem ganzheitlichen Verstandnis entsteht ein Bild des Bauens mit Holz, das Fachleute informiert, Baupraktikern eine heute fast verlorene Welt neu erschliesst und Laien ganz einfach zu faszinieren vermag.

Since 1930 more than 100,000 new chemical compounds have been developed and insufficient information exists on the health assessment of 95 percent of these chemicals in which a relevant percentage are used in construction products. For instance Portland cement concrete, the most used material on the Planet (10.000 million tons/year that in the next 40 years will increase around 100 %) currently used in around 15% of total concrete production contains chemicals used to modify their properties, either in the fresh or hardened state.

Biopolymers are materials that are developed from...

Materials Science in Construction explains the science behind the properties and behaviour of construction's most fundamental materials (metals, cement and concrete, polymers, timber, bricks and blocks, glass and plaster). In particular, the critical factors affecting in situ materials are examined, such as deterioration and the behaviour and durability of materials under performance. An accessible, easy-to-follow approach makes this book ideal for all diploma and undergraduate students on construction-related courses taking a module in construction materials.

Energy security, rising energy prices (oil, gas, electricity), 'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable living are hot topics across the globe. Meanwhile, abundant and perpetual wind resources offer opportunities, via recent technological developments, to provide part of the solution to address these key issues.

The rapid growth of large-scale wind farm installations has now led to the generation of clean electricity for tens of millions of homes around the world. However, despite the potential to reduce the losses and costs associated with...

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...

Wood is usually perceived as a "traditional" material. However, the properties of this material have now for some time made it possible to design free shapes and highly complex structures.

Today, the wood laboratory of the EPF Lausanne, which was originally founded by Julius Natterer, is testing the production of origami structures, ribbed shells, fabric structures and curved panels under the guidance of Professor Weinand using digital calculation and computer-aided processing methods. The research results are tested in prototypes, which demonstrate the potential applications in...

Built to Grow investigates patterns of growth and dynamics in nature with the aim of creating a new living architecture that can be applied to architectonic designs. It examines biological processes to identify basic principles of growth and translate them into exemplary architectonic ideas and visions. The project brings together experts from the fields of architecture, biology, art, mechatronics, and robotics.

Das Gebiet der Gebaudetechnik wird bei der zunehmenden Komplexitat des Bauens immer wichtiger. Als Mittler zwischen allen am Bau Beteiligten muss der Architekt die Zusammenhange verstehen unddie Bauherren kompetent beraten konnen.
Basics Gebaudetechnik befasst sich mit den Gebieten der Wasserver- und Entsorgung, der Elektroinstallation und mit den energierelevanten Themen Heizung, Luftung und Beleuchtung. Das Kompendium vereint die erfolgreichen Einzelbande Raumkonditionierung und Wasserkreislauf im Gebaude und erganzt diese um die zwei neuen, bislang nicht...

Das Gebiet der Gebaudetechnik wird bei der zunehmenden Komplexitat des Bauens immer wichtiger. Als Mittler zwischen allen am Bau Beteiligten muss der Architekt die Zusammenhange verstehen und seine Bauherren kompetent beraten konnen.
Basics Gebaudetechnik befasst sich mit den Gebieten der Wasserver- und Entsorgung, der Elektroinstallation und mit den energierelevanten Themen Heizung, Luftung und Beleuchtung. Das Kompendium vereint die erfolgreichen Einzelbande Raumkonditionierung und Wasserkreislauf im Gebaude und erganzt diese um die zwei neuen, bislang...

Mehr als jedes andere Baumaterial bestimmt das Tageslicht Raumwirkungen, erzeugt Stimmungen, inszeniert Architektur. Eine sinnvolle Tages- und eine darauf abgestimmte Kunstlichtplanung tragt, gerade in Burogebauden, wesentlich zur Energieeinsparung bei: Je besser das Tageslicht genutzt wird, desto weniger Energie muss fur Kunstlicht eingesetzt werden. Aus diesem Grund hat sich das Leitbild der Architektur in den letzten Jahren geandert: Aus abgeschlossenen, voll klimatisierten Gebauden wurden zunehmend Bauwerke, die auf die klimatischen Gegebenheiten der Umgebung baulich reagieren und so,...

Daylight is the most important element determining the mood and appearance of architecture, more so than all construction materials. In office buildings in particular, the good provision of daylight and matching artificial lighting installations make an important contribution to energy conservation - the better the use made of daylight, the less energy has to be consumed for artificial lighting. For this reason, typical architectural concepts have changed in recent years; enclosed buildings with full air-conditioning have increasingly made way to buildings that respond to the climate...

The concept and detailed design of buildings requires a comprehensive approach. Coordinating the different trades is one of the architect's key tasks. In view of the fact that electrical installations in buildings are becoming increasingly complex, the architect needs to have a solid, basic understanding in this field in order to be able to prepare the design for the input of the specialist engineers. However, most architects find it hard to understand anything but the basic concepts of electrical engineering, in spite of the fact that it is an increasingly important field in view of the...

Bei der Planung, Konzeption und Ausfuhrung mussen Gebaude ganzheitlich betrachtet werden. Die Abstimmung der einzelnen Gewerke untereinander ist eine Kernaufgabe des Architekten. Da elektrotechnische Installationen in Gebauden zunehmend komplexer werden, muss der Architekt uber ein fundiertes Basiswissen auch in diesem Bereich verfugen, um die Fachplanung sinnvoll vorbereiten zu konnen. Als Mittler zwischen allen am Bau Beteiligten muss er im Bereich der Elektrotechnik von Gebauden die Zusammenhange verstehen und die Kunden kompetent beraten konnen. Basics Elektroinstallation...

Wood and new wood materials are remarkable for their sustainability through the life-cycle, but planners and builders need certainty. Wood in Building Construction covers innovative and time-honored forms of wood construction in a compact handbook, combining theory with practice. It clearly describes traditional building methods and new trends in architecture with wood. An essential handbook for planners, engineers, contractors, and students.

Innovative Entwurfe sind in zunehmendem Masse auf die interdisziplinarere Zusammenarbeit zwischen Architekten, Ingenieuren und der Bauindustrie angewiesen. GAM.12 - Structural Affairs beobachtet das Feld der Kooperationen in den dynamischen Arbeitsablaufen der Gegenwartsarchitektur und stellt aktuelle Projekte wie theoretische Positionen zur Diskussion.