Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Buildings - General

This book offers everyone who plans, builds or operates lifts and escalators a comprehensive overview of the important topics: starting with the standards and technical rules through to the history of technology. Planning, operation, maintenance and documentation of lifts and escalators are described. Numerous meaningful color illustrations complement the text. The book serves as a reference work for operators of lifts and escalators. The many examples, tips and advice from practice make it a helpful companion in daily work.

The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations - the writer Thoreau lived in a self-built hut in the forest from 1845 -1847. In 1952, Le Corbusier built a hut at the Cote d'Azur for himself and his wife. Inspired by this, Urs Peter Fluckiger, together with his students, built an ecologically and economically sustainable cabin in the Texan prairie. All three projects share the idea of minimal space and its relationship with the surrounding nature. In text, drawings, and photographs, this book analyses the three projects and shows parallels and...

Loadbearing systems are the basis of any structure. In order to provide architecture students with an easily understandable introduction to the field of supporting structures, this volume begins with the fundamentals of loads and forces and then moves on to building components and finally to loadbearing systems, together with their characteristic attributes.

Die intelligente Weiterentwicklung von Bautypen ist eine wesentliche Aufgabenstellung im Wohnungsbau. Fur die Wohnungsbautypologie haben die Autoren neue, systematische Darstellungen uber innovative Typen entwickelt. In den einzelnen Kapiteln werden die Anwendungs- und Transformationsmoglichkeiten jeweils einer bestimmten Wohnbauform entfaltet: dem Hof-, Reihen-, Stadt- und dem freistehenden Haus.