Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Adaptive Reuse & Renovation

Historic Preservation for Designers offers a comprehensive overview of historic preservation with a focus on historic interiors, historic building materials, and the adaptive reuse of interiors. This text includes a brief history of preservation in the United States, criteria to determine whether a building is historic, a discussion of preservation law, and how to document historic buildings with a focus on design and understanding functional and aesthetic requirements.

The text explores issues including building restoration and rehabilitation standards, adaptive reuse...

Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building s occupants and their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in the future.

This book, first published in 1988, includes a review of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs. "Post-Occupancy Evaluation" categorizes the approaches to building evaluation by describing the three levels of POE effort indicative, investigative, and diagnostic, each differing in terms of...

A striking new investigation of design strategies, ideas and critical thinking in interior architecture.

Using 40 international case studies, Adaptation Strategies for Interior Architecture and Design starts with the existing building and shows how designers and architects can bring together responses, ideas and resources in order to form new, clear and meaningful spatial designs.

With 20 years' experience in the field, Brooker introduces readers to the importance of context in both its site-specific and cultural meaning - from a disused aircraft hangar, to an old water...

When you read Tiny House - The Definitive Manual to Tiny Houses, you'll discover everything you need to know about this unique and popular lifestyle. Instead of spending most of your life paying off a traditional house, you can create your own tiny home at a fraction of the cost

• Two-thirds of tiny house owners don't pay mortgages
• The majority of people with tiny houses have more savings than average Americans
• Most...

Post-occupancy evaluation, focusing on building s occupants and their needs, provides insight into the consequences of past design decisions and forms a sound basis for creating better buildings in the future.

This book, first published in 1988, includes a review of the evolution of the field, a conceptual frame-work for POE, and pragmatic information on planning, conducting, and reporting POEs. Post-Occupancy Evaluation categorizes the approaches to building evaluation by describing the three levels of POE effort indicative, investigative, and diagnostic, each differing in...