Название: Using Natural Finishes: Lime and Earth Based Plasters, Renders & Paints
Автор: Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce
Издательство: UIT Cambridge
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Размер: 84 Мб
Язык: английский / English

With the increasing awareness of eco-building techniques alongside the desire to make our homes healthier, the historical benefits of using natural renders and paints are being rediscovered. Using Natural Finishes is an in-depth guide to the selection, mixing and application of lime and clay based plasters, renders, paints and washes. Providing step-by-step instructions with detailed illustrations to show the practical elements of working with lime and clay-based finishes, the authors demonstrate how these natural breathable plasters and paints can be used on a wide variety of wall surfaces, including traditional and eco-build materials like cob, strawbale and stone, as well as modern plasterboard and concrete surfaces, with stunning results.

Название: Buildings for Advanced Technology
Автор: Ahmad Soueid, E. Clayton Teague
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book deals with the design and construction of buildings for nanoscale science and engineering research. The information provided in this book is useful for designing and constructing buildings for such advanced technologies as nanotechnology, nanoelectronics and biotechnology. The book outlines the technology challenges unique to each of the building environmental challenges outlined below and provides best practices and examples of engineering approaches to address them

Название: Architecture for Children
Автор: Sara Scott
Издательство: ACER Press
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Размер: 26 Мб
Язык: английский / English

So much of the teaching of children in early learning settings revolves around the importance of a child's environment and its impact on their development. Children are unique individuals with heightened sensory needs and special scale considerations. They move through and perceive space in a totally different way than adults. How can architectural form respond to the unique needs of children, supporting and reinforcing the pedagogy of a children's center? Over the last 100 years, many divergent educational philosophies have evolved with a wide breadth and depth of thinking and with an equally wide range of architectural responses.

Название: Building Integrated Photovoltaics: A Handbook
Автор: Simon Roberts and Nicolo Guariento
Издательство: Birkhauser Verlag AG
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Размер: 61 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Due to the growing demand for clean sources of energy, the manufacture of solar cells and photovoltaic arrays has expanded dramatically in recent years. Photovoltaics has high appeal, generating electricity from sunlight, silently, with no maintenance, no pollution and no depletion of materials. In building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems, photovoltaic modules become an integral part of the building envelope, such as the roof, a skylight or the fa?ade. BIPV represents the combination of proven renewable power technology and the building exterior using traditional building practices. This handbook is aimed at architects and designers. It addresses PV-technology as one more building cladding option from an architect’s point of view. Most examples here are of new buildings, but the guidance is equally relevant for renovation of existing buildings.

Название: Architecture in Northern Landscapes
Автор(ы): Todd Saunders
Издательство: Birkhaeuser
Год: 2012
ISBN: 978-3034608183
Страниц: 277
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 47 MB

Todd Saunders (*1969) is one of the most important young contemporary Canadian architects working internationally. His architecture, simple yet powerful, incorporates elements of his country's architectural identity - including the use of wood and carefully picked Modernist influences - bringing it at the same time into the 21st century with excellent execution, carefully chosen materials and a hands-on approach. Saunders (he lives and works in Bergen, Norway) has successfully executed work in both Canada, Norway, and Finland, creating architecture with a strong sense of northern identity, an individual approach that is informed by the strongness of natural landscape. The most important projects: Aurland Lookout, Long Studio, Fogo Island, Tower Studio, Fogo Island, Squish Studio, Fogo Island and Villa G. The first reference monograph on a remarkable young architect working in Scandinavia and Canada. The monograph provides interesting unpublished documents, curated by Jonathan Bell (Architecture Editor, Wallpaper* magazine) and Ellie Stathaki (Deputy Architecture Editor, Wallpaper* magazine) as well as three interviews by Olaf Gipser, Zita Cobb, and Brian MacKay-Lyons. The artwork of the book is by the international renowned graphic designer Henrik Nygren.

Название: The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
Автор: Edwin G. Burrows
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 240 Мб
Язык: английский / English

When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a four-acre site between 40th and 42nd Streets, the colossus of glass and steel indeed seemed poised to displace the British original in worldwide fame. Walt Whitman pronounced it "unsurpassed anywhere for beauty."

Название: Modern London: An illustrated tour of London's cityscape from the 1920s to the present day
Автор: Lukas Novotny and Christopher Beanland
Издательство: White Lion Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 36 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the art deco factories of the 1920s through to the skyscraper boom of the twenty-first century, Modern London takes you on an illustrated tour of the capital’s ever-changing landscape. Shaped variously by war, economics, population growth and design trends, the city has been moulded by some of the greatest modern architects and to this day remains a centre of building design and experimentation. Through intricate graphic illustrations and accessible entertaining text, London’s streets, structures and transport systems of the last century are brought to life.

Название: The Smart House
Автор: James Grayson Trulove
Издательство: Harper Design
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Размер: 140 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Divided into three sections, The Smart House illustrates how technology is changing our homes. The book looks at three areas:

Smart Technology, which examines five aspects of technology and how it's being integrated throughout the house: lighting design and window treatments; audio and video entertainment; voice and data management; security and access; and environmental controls and energy management.

Название: Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture
Автор: Thomas Schr?pfer
Издательство: Birkhauser
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 119 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture explores innovations in architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components, such as sky terraces, green facades, and vertical parks, in high-density buildings. In-depth case studies of various building types are presented with analytical drawings prepared exclusively for this book. International experts provide information on the technical and ecological aspects as well as the landscape and urban design implications of the dense and green paradigm.

Название: Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes
Автор: Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Atomic Ranch is an in-depth exploration of post-World War II residential architecture in America. Mid-century ranches (1946-1970) range from the decidedly modern gable-roofed Joseph Eichler tracts in the San Francisco Bay area and butterfly wing houses in Palm Springs, Florida, to the unassuming brick or stucco L-shaped ranches and split-levels so common throughout the United States. Authors Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown, founders and publishers of the popular quarterly Atomic Ranch magazine, extol the virtues of the tract, split-level, rambler home and its many unique qualities: private front facades, open floor plans, secluded bedroom wings, walls of glass, and an easy-living lifestyle.