Sustainable architecture and design Books

Book SynopsisThe need to find new approaches to the development of cities is becoming increasingly urgent in this age of continuing population growth, demographic transition, climate change, fossil fuel peak and biodiversity losses. Restoring ecosystem services and promoting biodiversity is essential to sustainable development even in the built environment. Ecosystem Services come to Town: greening cities by working with nature demonstrates how to make urban environments greener. It starts by explaining how, by mimicking nature and deliberately creating habitats to provide ecosystem services, cities can become more efficient and more pleasant to live in. The history of cities and city planning is covered with the impacts of industrial urban development described, as well as the contemporary concerns of biodiversity loss, peak oil and climate change. The later sections offer solutions to the challenges of sustainable urban development by describing and explaining a whole range of Trade Review“The book can be a useful supplemental resource for students in urban studies, offering many wonderful ideas and a general sense of optimism. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic, professional, and large public libraries.” (Choice, 1 August 2013) Table of ContentsAbout the Author xi Acknowledgement xiii 1. Introduction 1 Modern Cities and the Disconnected 1 Population Spike 2 Limits to Growth 3 Global Threats 3 Ecosystem Services and Stewardship 4 Greening Cities is Necessary 5 Hope 5 2. Origins of Cities 7 Why Look Back? 7 Emergence of the Human Species 7 Great Leap Forward 8 Agriculture and Permanent Settlements 8 Agriculture Around the World 10 Agriculture Intensifies 11 Empires Rise and Fall in Mesopotamia 12 Nile Valley 12 Indus Valley 13 Ancient China 13 Ancient Greece 14 On the Ganges 15 Rome 16 The Moche 16 Mesoamerica 17 Fortified Centres of Administration 17 European Renaissance 18 Early Modern 19 Squalor 21 3. Modern Cities 23 Origins of the Modern City 23 Industrial Revolution 23 Railways 24 Rapid Growth 25 Ill Health 26 Distinctive New Districts Emerge 27 Paris Re-born 28 Railways and Suburbs 29 Planning and Zoning 29 Garden Cities 29 Motor Vehicles Herald in the Oil Age 31 A Humane Outlook 32 Going Up 33 Continued Rise of the Motor Vehicle 33 Decline of the Inner City 34 New Towns 35 City Plans 36 An Unfinished Task 37 4. Issues Facing Contemporary Cities 39 Impacts of Cities and City Living 39 Habitat Loss 40 Habitat Fragmentation 41 Impacts on Soil 41 The Water Cycle 42 Water-borne Pollution 44 Urban Heat Islands 44 Air Pollution 45 Noise 46 Light Pollution 47 Agricultural Land Take 47 Concrete 48 Steel 48 Glass 49 Timber 49 Waste 49 Drivers of Population Growth 50 Peak Oil 52 Peak Phosphorus 52 Post Oil 53 5. Working with Nature 55 Ecology and Ecosystems 55 Born Free 56 Saving the Great Lakes 56 Earth Summit, Ecosystem Assessment and Ecosystem Services 58 Cities as Part of the Biosphere 59 Ecological Restoration 59 Urban Wildlife 60 Green Infrastructure 60 Sustainable Sites Initiative 61 Advice from Professional Bodies and Others 61 Mimic Nature 62 Working with Nature Works 63 6. Urban Nature 65 Open Space Preservation 65 The Naturalists 66 Nature Leaves the City? 66 Urban Nature Returns 68 Wildlife Gardens 69 Encapsulated Countryside 70 Bukit Timah 71 The Urban Forest 72 Urban Wastelands 73 Canvey Wick 74 Emscher Park 75 Urban Farming 76 Biodiversity Action Plans 77 River Corridors 78 London’s South Bank 79 Minneapolis Riverfront 79 7. Water and Cities 81 Fresh Clean Water – Essential and Increasingly Scarce 81 Civilisation has Modified the Water Cycle 82 Water Consumption 82 Embodied Carbon 82 Virtual Water 83 Catchment Management 84 Rainwater Harvesting 84 Grey Water 85 Sustainable Urban Drainage 85 Water Sensitive Urban Design 86 Rain Gardens 86 The Streets are Changing 86 Ponds 88 Potsdamer Platz 89 River Restoration 89 The Cheonggyecheon River 90 Singapore 91 Water and Urban Heat Islands 93 Towards the Water Sensitive City 93 8. City-wide Greening 95 Bioregions 95 Catchment Management for Clean Water 96 Catchment Management for Ecosystem Services 97 Regional Green Infrastructure Plans 99 Biomass and the Bioregion 99 Regional Ecological Networks 100 Community Forests 101 Green Belts 101 Green Grids 103 Transport 103 Urban Heat Islands 105 Blue Networks 105 Masterplanning 107 Regional Plans, Local Implementation 107 9. Greening Neighbourhoods and Buildings 111 Sense of Neighbourhood 111 Living Streets 112 Standardising the Neighbourhood 113 Design Your Own Park 113 A Phoenix Rises 114 Growing Their Own 115 Learning from Squatter Settlements 116 Rain Gardens 117 They Paved Paradise 118 Clapton Park Estate 118 People of the Trees 119 Tree Pits 120 Tree Trenches 121 No Space? 122 Energy Efficient Buildings 123 Water Efficiency 123 Autonomy 123 Building-integrated Vegetation 124 A Coat for Buildings 124 Value of Shade 125 Living Walls 126 Cooling Effect of Green Roofs 128 Green Roofs, Rainwater Attenuation and Cooling 129 Green Roofs Need the Right Substrate 130 Green Roofs for Biodiversity 130 London’s Black Redstart Roofs 131 Biodiverse Green Roofs in North America 132 Roof Gardens for People 133 Worldwide Applications 133 Wildlife and Buildings 134 Rooftop Harvests 136 10. Conclusion 137 Interesting Times 137 The Positives 138 Cities and Citizens Take the Initiative 138 Greening Requires Greenery 140 Appendices I: award winning projects from IHDC website 141 II: useful resources 177 Notes and References 197 Index 209

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of “room temperature”? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation—of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food—can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call “modern.”Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation—including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers—became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation’s unprecedented growth.Modernism’s Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today. Trade Review"Michael Osman weaves a complex web of interaction between architecture, science, and technology, as well as between architecture, business, and management. Modernism's Visible Hand is not only brilliant, it is also path-breaking."—Antoine Picon, author of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence"Michael Osman takes us on an extraordinary journey through turn-of-the-twentieth-century modern American life, travelling from temperature-controlled homes and cold-storage warehouses, to Pennsylvania's factories and Indiana's sand dunes. This engrossing, brilliant book is an altogether new look at American architecture, technology, and everyday life; it will be of immense value to readers interested in all these subjects."—Daniel M. Abramson, author of Obsolescence: An Architectural HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Thermostatic Interior and Household Management2. Cold Storage and the Speculative Market of Preserved Assets3. Representing Regulation in Nature’s Economy4. Imaging Brainwork5. Regulation through Paperwork in Architectural PracticeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of “room temperature”? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation—of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food—can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call “modern.”Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation—including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers—became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation’s unprecedented growth.Modernism’s Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today. Trade Review"Michael Osman weaves a complex web of interaction between architecture, science, and technology, as well as between architecture, business, and management. Modernism's Visible Hand is not only brilliant, it is also path-breaking."—Antoine Picon, author of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence"Michael Osman takes us on an extraordinary journey through turn-of-the-twentieth-century modern American life, travelling from temperature-controlled homes and cold-storage warehouses, to Pennsylvania's factories and Indiana's sand dunes. This engrossing, brilliant book is an altogether new look at American architecture, technology, and everyday life; it will be of immense value to readers interested in all these subjects."—Daniel M. Abramson, author of Obsolescence: An Architectural HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Thermostatic Interior and Household Management2. Cold Storage and the Speculative Market of Preserved Assets3. Representing Regulation in Nature’s Economy4. Imaging Brainwork5. Regulation through Paperwork in Architectural PracticeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architectureToward a Living Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Starting from the assertion that we should take generative architects’ rhetoric of biology and sustainability seriously, Christina Cogdell examines their claims from the standpoints of the sciences they draw on—complex systems theory, evolutionary theory, genetics and epigenetics, and synthetic biology. She reveals significant disconnects while also pointing to approaches and projects with significant potential for further development. Arguing that architectural design today often only masquerades as sustainable, Cogdell demonstrates how the language of some cutting-edge practitioners and educators can mislead students and clients into thinking they are getting something biological when they are not. In a narrative that moves from the computational toward the biological and from current practice to visionary futures, Cogdell uses life-cycle analysis as a baseline for parsing the material, energetic, and pollution differences between different digital and biological design and construction approaches. Contrary to green-tech sustainability advocates, she questions whether quartzite-based silicon technologies and their reliance on rare earth metals as currently designed are sustainable for much longer, challenging common projections of a computationally designed and manufactured future. Moreover, in critiquing contemporary architecture and science from a historical vantage point, she reveals the similarities between eugenic design of the 1930s and the aims of some generative architects and engineering synthetic biologists today. Each chapter addresses a current architectural school or program while also exploring a distinct aspect of the corresponding scientific language, theory, or practice.No other book critiques generative architecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice. Based on the author’s years of field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this rare, field-building book does no less than definitively, unsparingly explain the role of the natural sciences within contemporary architecture.Trade Review"Christina Cogdell's soberly scholarly book shows that high-tech evolutionary or generative design is environmentally unsustainable, and that many (fortunately, not all) of today's computational bio-designers are selling, or buying, fake science. Who is to blame for this colossal, and possibly ominous, waste of intelligence and resources? Cogdell has one prime culprit in mind."—Mario Carpo, University College London"Toward a Living Architecture? is a timely meditation into the hype and hope of the fantasy of generative architecture—a field in which biological metaphors are taken literally and the complexities of living systems are brushed away in favor of simplistic illusions of control. Christina Cogdell is a phenomenal researcher who does not shy away from engaging in deep and experiential investigative field work in diverse settings; delving into scientific labs, studios, and knowledge systems, she presents a clear and reasoned argument for the need for a more nuanced and rigorous integration of the life science and architecture than the model currently presented by generative architecture discourse."—Oron Catts, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Self-Organizing and Emergent Architecture2. Material Computation3. Morphogenesis and Evolutionary Computation4. Context Matters: LabStudio and Biosynthesis5. Growing Living Buildings: Tissue and Genetic Engineering in Architecture and Design6. “Protocell” Architecture and SynBioDesignAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Brief History of Complexity’s Intersections with Generative ArchitectureNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architectureToward a Living Architecture? is the first book-length critique of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Starting from the assertion that we should take generative architects’ rhetoric of biology and sustainability seriously, Christina Cogdell examines their claims from the standpoints of the sciences they draw on—complex systems theory, evolutionary theory, genetics and epigenetics, and synthetic biology. She reveals significant disconnects while also pointing to approaches and projects with significant potential for further development. Arguing that architectural design today often only masquerades as sustainable, Cogdell demonstrates how the language of some cutting-edge practitioners and educators can mislead students and clients into thinking they are getting something biological when they are not. In a narrative that moves from the computational toward the biological and from current practice to visionary futures, Cogdell uses life-cycle analysis as a baseline for parsing the material, energetic, and pollution differences between different digital and biological design and construction approaches. Contrary to green-tech sustainability advocates, she questions whether quartzite-based silicon technologies and their reliance on rare earth metals as currently designed are sustainable for much longer, challenging common projections of a computationally designed and manufactured future. Moreover, in critiquing contemporary architecture and science from a historical vantage point, she reveals the similarities between eugenic design of the 1930s and the aims of some generative architects and engineering synthetic biologists today. Each chapter addresses a current architectural school or program while also exploring a distinct aspect of the corresponding scientific language, theory, or practice.No other book critiques generative architecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice. Based on the author’s years of field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this rare, field-building book does no less than definitively, unsparingly explain the role of the natural sciences within contemporary architecture.Trade Review"Christina Cogdell's soberly scholarly book shows that high-tech evolutionary or generative design is environmentally unsustainable, and that many (fortunately, not all) of today's computational bio-designers are selling, or buying, fake science. Who is to blame for this colossal, and possibly ominous, waste of intelligence and resources? Cogdell has one prime culprit in mind."—Mario Carpo, University College London"Toward a Living Architecture? is a timely meditation into the hype and hope of the fantasy of generative architecture—a field in which biological metaphors are taken literally and the complexities of living systems are brushed away in favor of simplistic illusions of control. Christina Cogdell is a phenomenal researcher who does not shy away from engaging in deep and experiential investigative field work in diverse settings; delving into scientific labs, studios, and knowledge systems, she presents a clear and reasoned argument for the need for a more nuanced and rigorous integration of the life science and architecture than the model currently presented by generative architecture discourse."—Oron Catts, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Self-Organizing and Emergent Architecture2. Material Computation3. Morphogenesis and Evolutionary Computation4. Context Matters: LabStudio and Biosynthesis5. Growing Living Buildings: Tissue and Genetic Engineering in Architecture and Design6. “Protocell” Architecture and SynBioDesignAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Brief History of Complexity’s Intersections with Generative ArchitectureNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material-concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, the need for recent, thorough, and well-vetted case studies on conserving twentieth-century heritage became clear. Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice answers that need and kicks off a new series, Conserving Modern Heritage, aimed at sharing best practices. The projects selected represent a range of building typologies, building uses, and project sizes, from the high-rise housing blocks of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation and public buildings such as the London's National Theatre to small monuments such as the structures at Dudley Zoological Gardens and a sculpture by Donald Judd. The projects also represent a range of environmental and economic contexts. Some projects benefit from high levels of heritage protection and access to funding, while others have had to negotiate conservation with stringent cost limitations. All follow a rigorous conservation approach, beginning with a process of investigation and diagnosis to identify causes and target repairs and balancing these with conservation requirements to preserve significance. Written by architects, engineers, conservators, and other professionals in the field, these highly detailed and well-illustrated studies demonstrate sound practice, rigorous methodology, and technological innovation. This book has something to offer anyone interested in the conservation of modern heritage.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of ten case studies addresses the unique challenges surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1931 and 1969 and offers valuable lessons for other structures facing similar issues. These buildings, international in scope and diverse in type, style, and size, range from the Shulman House, a small residence in Los Angeles, to the TD Bank Tower, a skyscraper complex in Toronto, and from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a cultural venue in Lisbon, to the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, now an office building. Showing ingenuity and sensitivity, the case studies consider improvements to such systems as heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, and controls. They provide examples that demonstrate best practices in conservation and show ways to reduce carbon footprints, minimize impacts to historic materials and features, and introduce renewable energy sources, in compliance with energy codes and green-building rating systems. The Conserving Modern Heritage series, launched in 2019, is written by architects, engineers, conservators, scholars, and allied professionals. The books in this series provide well-vetted cased studies that address the challenges of conserving twentieth century heritage. "Trade Review"The conservation of buildings has always necessitated adaptation. Today, the need to adapt is magnified by two factors. First is the modern era's frenetic race for innovation, which frequently outpaces habitability and durability concerns. Second, conservators must satisfy contemporary performance expectations that are ratcheted up by climate change. Both factors are insightfully and thoroughly addressed in Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings: Case Studies in Conservation Practice. ;; The range of modern buildings portrayed is noteworthy in itself, from iconic structures like Kahn's Richards Medical Research Laboratories to gems like the Catalina American Baptist Church, from idiosyncratic wonders like the Geschwister-Scholl Grammar School to classics like the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Each case study underscores the importance of employing established best practices in conservation, creatively leveraging the inherent qualities of each unique building, and forging creative and compatible solutions."-Carl Elefante, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP;; "The challenge of developing appropriate conservation strategies that will preserve the character-defining construction and materials of modern historic places is a significant one. Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings features case studies of conservation projects that implement minimal intervention strategies while maintaining the historic character of these buildings, such as enhancing their original features, systems, glazing, insulation, and air barriers. The studies cover diverse climate zones and typologies and different types of interventions that could instigate further research and serve as inspiration for other conservation projects worldwide.; The volume is well illustrated, and the terminology and glossary are excellent. As both a teacher and heritage expert engaged in educating emerging professionals on the energy retrofitting of historic buildings, I highly endorse this publication and its adoption as an educational resource."-- Dr. Mario Santana Quintero, Professor in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering, Carleton University and Secretary General of ICOMOSTable of ContentsForeword Preface and acknowledgements Introduction Projects Gesweister-Scholl School / Lunen, Germany / 1956-62 Oskar Spital-Frenking Shulman House / Los Angeles / 19XX Ian Dickenson Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / Lisbon / 1969 Teresa Nunes da Ponte, Osorio Tomas, Sonia Antunes, and Bruno Terra da Motta Toronto-Dominion Centre, TD Bank Tower / Toronto / 1967 Adrienne Cressman, Melissa Patterson, Eric Chisholm, Michael McClelland, and Kyle Parry Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre / London / 19XX Ian Taylor, Richard Battye, and Mark Nutley Richards Medical Research Laboratories / Philadelphia / 1961 Matthew S. Chalifoux and David N. Fixler Catalina American Baptist Church / Tucson, Arizona / 1960-61 J. Chris Evans Van Nelle Factory / Rotterdam / 1925-31 Wessel de Jonge, Tom J. Haartsen, and Eric R. van den Ham Boston University School of Law / Boston / 1961 Henry Moss Workers Compensation Board / Winnipeg / 1961 Travis Cooke, Glen Gross, Jason Kun, Markian Yereniuk, and John Wells Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUseful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies. How Spaces Become Places tells stories of place makers who respond to daunting challenges of affordable housing, racial violence, and immigration, as well as community building, arts development, safe streets, and coalition-building. The book's thirteen contributors share their personal experiences tackling complex and contentious situations in cities ranging from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and from Paris to Detroit. These activists and architects, artists and planners, mediators and gardeners transform ordinary spaces into extraordinary places. These place makers recount working alongside initially suspicious residents to reclaim and enrich the communities in which they live. Readers will learn how place makers listen and learn, diagnose local problems, convene stakeholders, build trust, and invent solutions together. They will find instructive examples of work they can do within their own communities. In the aftermath of the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, the editor argues, these accessible practice stories are more important than ever.Trade Review"For planners and urban designers, residents, and community organizers, this is simply the best text available for understanding how to create more just, beautiful, convivial, and safe places. And Forester’s eloquent afterword on the relevance of these stories in the time of pandemic and white supremacy is essential reading. This book is a gift of hope and possibility, revealing how the participatory art and craft of placemaking can be a small laboratory for democracy." -- Leonie Sandercock, Professor in Community Planning, School of Community & Regional Planning, University of British Columbia"John Forester’s new book is a riveting account of the art of place-making. Awesome teaching material, offering deep insights to students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of urban planning." -- Benjamin Davy, former President of the Association of European Schools of Planning"The best of John Forester’s outstanding body of work. The stories are honest expressions of how expert knowledge and local knowledge commingle, mutually reinforce, and interrogate meanings and the physical world. Each accounting demonstrates how placemaking practices create meaningful relationships between and among people in places they have come to love." -- Lynda H. Schneekloth and Robert Shibley, University at Buffalo, co-authors of Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities"This well-compiled volume reflects the enormous challenges that planners, seeking to be place makers, have to face and address in times of globalization, digitalization, climate change, and populism." -- Klaus R. Kunzmann, Professor Emeritus, TU Dortmund, Germany, and founding president of the Association of European Schools of Planning"How Spaces Become Places captures the extraordinary power of seemingly ordinary actions through which artists, designers, planners, and community organizers overcome challenges, uncover possibilities, and in the process transform places and politics. John Forester has demonstrated once again the importance of doing, listening, and storytelling." -- Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, and editor of Insurgent Public Space and Transcultural Cities"A wealth of inspiring experience from practitioners of participatory democracy. Bright lights in a dark time, these stories illuminate paths to creating places that are memorable, beloved, and just." -- Anne Whiston Spirn, author of The Granite Garden and The Language of Landscape

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Book SynopsisLeading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities—and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics. COVID-19 caused a significant global disruption of human activities with striking consequences for the built environment, causing an abrupt fear as it relates to architecture and building design. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. Immunizing the built environment against contagion is a monumental task requiring a variety of approaches and disciplinary expertise at multiple scales of inquiry. In this book, 60 of the world’s leading architects, designers, engineers, materials scientists, and public health experts contribute to an expansive overview of inoculation strategies for today’s world. These approaches are organized according to the primary sites of exposure, generally arranged by scale: surface (materials and tactile interfaces), system (mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and lighting assemblies), space (interior and exterior environments), and society (cities, regions, and the general public). This broad collection of perspectives elucidates the transformations underway in the built environment— and offers design strategies to limit the severity of subsequent pandemics. In this way, the book aims to serve both as a multidisciplinary snapshot of COVID-19’s effects and a guidebook for future-proofing architecture against widespread disease.

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Book SynopsisIt is all too easy for the vogue term 'green infrastructure' to be waved around by local authorities and developers like a totem of environmental awareness, while simply meaning 'greenspace' or 'storm water management'. This book provides a welcome corrective, demonstrating the need to plan the natural environment of cities as integral to their effective social, economic, ecological and aesthetic function. The impressive range of topics includes green infrastructure and health, air quality, biodiversity, water and recreation, and the book shows through policy discussion and case study how principles can be converted into practice. It will be an essential source for students, researchers and practitioners.'- Hugh Barton, University of the West of England, UK'Green infrastructure is an essential feature of social, economic and environmental planning for all places. This important and very comprehensive book will be essential reading for all those involved in its provision and promotion. It offers an exceptionally informative contextual review and it is exemplified throughout by a series of domestic and international case studies at a variety of scales. Its methodological discussion and examples will be of considerable value to all those engaged in the delivery of green infrastructure.'- Janice Morphet, University College London, UKGreen infrastructure encompasses many features in the built environment. It is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This Handbook sets the context for green infrastructure as a means to make urban environments more resilient, sustainable, liveable and equitable.Including state-of-the-art reviews that summarise the existing knowledge as well as research findings, this Handbook provides current evidence for the beneficial impact of green infrastructure on health, environmental quality and the economy. It discusses the planning and design of green infrastructure as a strategic network down to the individual features in a neighbourhood and looks at the process of green infrastructure implementation, emphasising the importance of collaboration across multiple professions and sectors. This comprehensive volume operates at multiple spatial scales, from strategic networks at the regional level to individual features in neighbourhoods, with international case studies used throughout to illustrate key examples of good practice.This collection of expert contributions will be invaluable to students and academics in the fields of planning, urban studies and geography. Practitioners and policy-makers will also find the policy discussion and examples enlightening.Contributors include: J.H. Amorim, A. Barker, S. Burgess, T. Butlin, T. Butterworth, C. Calfapietra, L. Chawla, N. Collomb, A. Coombs, E. Costa Pinto, C. Dair, V. Derr, K.J. Doick, G. Everett, T. Ferguson, P. Freer-Smith, S. Gill, C. Gonçalves, C. Greed, S. Grimmond, S. Kotthaus, J. Lamond, E. Lawson, F. Lemes De Oliveira, M. Lindsey, S. Manley, J. Marques-Da-Cruz, I. Mell, A.I. Miranda, A.J. Moffat, P. Nolan, C. Olver, S. Payne, A. Quintas, A. Rigolon, S. Rolls, M. Short, P. Silva, E. Silveirinha De Oliveira, D. Sinnett, N. Smith, T. Sunderland, M.J. Tallis, P.Toscano, C. Ward Thompson, K. Williams, J. WilsonTrade Review‘The Handbook on Green Infrastructure, edited by Danielle Sinnett, Nick Smith, and Sarah Burgess, is a strong contribution to the practice of, and research into, GI.’ -- Leah Hollstein, Journal of Urban Affairs‘It is all too easy for the vogue term “green infrastructure” to be waved around by local authorities and developers like a totem of environmental awareness, while simply meaning “greenspace” or “storm water management”. This book provides a welcome corrective, demonstrating the need to plan the natural environment of cities as integral to their effective social, economic, ecological and aesthetic function. The impressive range of topics includes green infrastructure and health, air quality, biodiversity, water and recreation, and the book shows through policy discussion and case study how principles can be converted into practice. It will be an essential source for students, researchers and practitioners.’ -- Hugh Barton, University of the West of England, UK‘Green infrastructure is an essential feature of social, economic and environmental planning for all places. This important and very comprehensive book will be essential reading for all those involved in its provision and promotion. It offers an exceptionally informative contextual review and it is exemplified throughout by a series of domestic and international case studies at a variety of scales. Its methodological discussion and examples will be of considerable value to all those engaged in the delivery of green infrastructure.’ -- Janice Morphet, University College London, UK‘As a Handbook, this book is clearly pitched to offer an extensive academic primer on the subject. In parallel it provides a valuable point of in-depth reference for planning, landscape and urban design professionals engaged in developing policy and preparing environmental frameworks and masterplans. It is less of a design manual to guide more detailed technical design and construction. Encouraged, no doubt, by its team of three academic editors, based at the University of the West of England, it is well researched and extensively referenced. And it is of a length that provides the opportunity to explore each topic in good depth. . . The Handbook on Green Infrastructure makes a useful contribution to changing the way we think about, value and plan green infrastructure in the future.’ -- Peter Neal, Town & Country PlanningTable of ContentsContents: PART I THE ROLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT 1. Green Infrastructure and Health Eva Silveirinha De Oliveira and Catharine Ward Thompson 2. The Impacts of Green Infrastructure on Air Quality and Temperature Matthew J. Tallis, Jorge Humberto Amorim,, Carlo Calfapietra, Peter Freer-Smith, Sue Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus, Fabiano Lemes De Oliveira, Ana Isabel Miranda and Piero Toscano 3. Green Infrastructure and Urban Water Management Glyn Everett, Emily Lawson and Jessica Lamond 4. Putting Economic Values on Green Infrastructure Improvements Tim Sunderland, Sophie Rolls and Tom Butterworth 5. Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity in the City: Principles and Design Danielle Sinnett PART II STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 6. Green Infrastructure Planning: Policy and Objectives Ian Mell 7. Planning Green Infrastructure at a Strategic Level: Experience from the Mersey Forest Susannah Gill, Paul Nolan, Tom Butlin, Tom Ferguson and Clare Olver 8. Delivering Green Infrastructure Through Strategic Development: Some Reflections from Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, USA Nick Smith 9. Planning Green Infrastructure from a Landscape Perspective Carla Gonçalves and Paulo Silva 10. Planning for Urban Green Infrastructure in Metropolitan Landscapes Andreia Quintas 11. Ensuring Green Infrastructure for All Clara Greed PART III DESIGNING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL 12. Multifunctional Green Infrastructure: A Typology Sarah Burgess 13. Towards Inclusive Green Infrastructure Sandra Manley 14. The Influences of Neighbourhood Design and Quality on Residents’ Use of Public Open Space Danielle Sinnett, Katie Williams, Morag Lindsey and Carol Dair 15. Green Grounds for Play and Learning: An Intergenerational Model for Joint Design and Use of School and Park Systems Alessandro Rigolon, Victoria Derr, and Louise Chawla 16. The Contribution of Green Infrastructure to a Sense of Place in Historic Urban Environments Michael Short 17. Landscape, Beyond Green and Grey Infrastructure João Marques-Da-Cruz and Eduardo Costa Pinto PART IV IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 18. The Governance and Management of Public Green Spaces Nicole Collomb 19. Community Involvement in Green Infrastructure Annie Coombs 20. Implementing Green Infrastructure Through Residential Development in the UK Sarah Payne and Adam Barker 21. Green Infrastructure and Regeneration of Brownfield Land Andy J. Moffat 22. Monitoring and Evaluation of Green Infrastructure. A Logic Model and Ecosystem Services Approach Kieron J. Doick and Jeffrey Wilson PART V LOOKING FORWARD 23. The Future of Green Infrastructure Andy J. Moffat, Danielle Sinnett, Nick Smith and Sarah Burgess Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the specific role that glazing technologies play within the world of smart architecture as important components of contemporary and future sustainable architectural and technological research. Smart Architecture begins with a definition of the concept of “smart” in architecture and examines how innovative technologies and materials have shaped buildings over the years. The author then provides a supporting database of contemporary smart architecture—mapping adopted strategies, recognizing common patterns, and evaluating current and future trends in the context of smart building envelopes, energy efficiency, and the development of high-potential innovative building components. The book proceeds with a focus on the specific role that glazing technologies play in this framework and provides a systematic methodology to quantify options for the effective integration of transparent building components within advanced and innovative building envelope systems.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The Building Envelope.- The “Smart” Concept Definition in Architecture.- How Technology Has Shaped Architecture Over the Years.- Smart Architecture: Selection and Classification of Existing Examples of Smart Buildings.- Why Windows Matter?.- Glazing for Smart Architecture.- Smart Window Technologies.- The Decision Support Tool.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities. The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban resilience. The book then explores urban resilience through the work and understanding of the institutions responsible for regulating the professions of urban planner, educators, professionals, and those involved in communication. Providing numerous illustrations and examples, Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates, architects, urban designers and planners alike.Table of ContentsPart I: Urban Resilience in Times of Environmental Crises.- Introduction.- The Periphery Does Not Exist.- From Circular Design to Circular Dynamics.- Part II: The Charter of Peccioli.- Preamble to the Charter of Peccioli. A Vision for Italy: A Nation of Resilient Communities.- The Peccioli Charter, or the New Constitution of the Nation of the Italian Resilient Communities.- Part III: Contributions of the Steering Committee Members.- Introduction.- No More Masterplan! Resilient Communities Require Incremental, Adaptive and Generative Processes.- Building the Space of a Resilient.- The Reslient Landscape of a Community.- The Role of Cultural and Built Heritage as Drivers for the Ecological and Social Regeneration of Suburbs and Minor Urban Centers Toward Future Resilience.- Investing in Human Capital. Towards a New Paradigm of Urban and Social Resilience, Beyond the Notion of Profit.- Farming the Contemporary City: Resilience and Adaptation Strategies from the Past.- Urban Socio-Psychological Resilience.- Designing Material Cultures.- Urban Metabolism: Towards a Holistic Practice of Resilience.- The Right Distance. Forms of Representation for Resilient Communities.- Part IV: From the Charter to the Perspectives of Resilience: Impacts.- Introduction.- A Charter of Resilience: Methodologies and Impact. From a Manifesto in Seven Points to the International Symposiums and Workshops.- Homo Resilience: Cultural Diversity in the Time of the Novacene.- Resilient Cities for Resilient Communities.- The Era of Eco-Responsibility.- The Architecture of the New Century, Interpreter of Chance Through Continuity.- Active Communities for Resilient Cities. Urban Agenda for Italy: Industrial Districts as Resilient Economic, Social and Cultural Communities.- Resilient Padua.- For the Common Good: Courage and Resilience.- Women Architects of Resilience.-"Spatial Drawings": Towards Becoming Aware of Living.- Guidelines for a Resilient Urban Landscape.- For an Ethics of Becoming.- Part V: Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially when coupled with the impacts and risks of climate change. The authors examine informal urban areas globally and in developing countries utilizing strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a tool to solve the sequence of upgrading steps concerning slums and shanty towns, and also establish essential guidelines for local governments and stakeholders to create a balance and quality of life for slums dwellers, particularly in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, through applying sustainability indicators that enhance the upgrading process. Coverage includes recent statistics and mapping of informal areas worldwide and assessment of the GIZ and Sir Norman Foster models in terms of energy demands and consequential emission of CO2 and air pollution from slums. Three models of Maspero’s Triangle are also studied and assessed. The book is essential reading for a wide range of researchers, students, policymakers, governments, and professionals as well as a good source for research centers and academicians working in energy, climate change, urban environments, and sustainable urban development.Table of Contents1) Global informal settlements and urban slums in cities and the coverage 2) Comprehension of informal settlements: An outlook on sprawl factors, challenges, and upgrading process – Role of policies for slums’ resilience and governance3) Informal urban settlements and slums’ upgrading – Global case studies4) Sustainable development principles for upgrading informal urban areas – Sustainability assessment of selected models 5) Understanding the challenges and potentials of people living in slums – Developing Countries6) Assessment of one of the slum areas in developing countries: Maspero’s Triangle – Cairo as a case study7) New Proposed Models for Maspero’s Triangle – Assessment8) Informal settlements and urban slums’ upgrading in megacities – Conclusions and recommendations

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in the building industry. It systematically demonstrates bamboo’s utility in terms of its properties, describing the material properties of typical industrial bamboo products, and discussing their performance evaluation and optimization as building components and in the creation of building envelopes. The book presents the recent developments regarding the innovative ways to design and represent architecture through parametric survey tools, and describes the experimental geometrical-generative design process of a connection joint for free-form lightweight structures employing beams made of bamboo culms. It examines algorithmic-generative design themes, through processes of optimization, analysis, and geometrical-spatial verification, employing the potential of digital form-finding design and digital manufacturing techniques to validate the defined technological solution. This book appeals to scientists and professionals and is a valuable resource for civil engineers, designers and students interested in this unique plant material and its application in the building industry. Videos via app: download the SN More Media app for free, scan an image or a link with play button and access the videos directly on your smartphone or tablet.Table of ContentsAlgorithmic-generative Architecture.- Bamboo as building material.- Algorithmic modelling and prototyping of a joint for reticular space structures.- Structural patterns for free-form surfaces.- Different possibilities of experimentation Design.

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make a huge difference to humanity’s endeavor to recover from current crises and build a sustainable future. It sheds light on cutting-edge concepts and actions toward sustainability that can taken by and for cities and with citizens. In this book, author Voula Mega takes the reader on a journey inside and across cities and highlights efforts toward a paradigmatic shift that reconciles human systems with nature. Leadership, education, innovation, trust and citizen empowerment all play a crucial role for the co-invention of a new model that balances human well-being, sustainable prosperity and the future of the planet. Building on robust evidence and inspired by best practices, Human Sustainable Cities offers compelling messages and convincing advice to all stakeholders who are striving to overcome crises, speed up the path toward resilience and preparedness and bounce forward better.Table of ContentsChapter1. A Planet of Cities at Times unlike Any Other: Towards the 2030 SustainableDevelopment Agenda.- Chapter2. Urban Ecology and Humanism: Pathways to Regeneration.- Chapter3. Climate-Conscious Cities: The Critical Decade.- Chapter4. The Energy Race to Decarbonisation.- Chapter5. Sustainable Circular Economies for Transformative Cities.- Chapter6. A New Social Contract for Healthy, Safe and Happy Cities for All.- Chapter7. Cities as Living Labs of Knowledge, Co-creation and Innovation.- Chapter8. Accountable Strategic Planning and Citizen Engagement.- Chapter9. Cities in Concert for the Global Sustainability Transition.- Annex: Best Practices, Lighthouse Initiatives and Paradigm Shifts.

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Book SynopsisIn future, buildings that make sense from a bioclimatic perspective will not be the exception; planners will simply be expected to design them. With its wealth of facts, this book serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the planner from the basic evaluation stage through conception and implementation planning all the way to building operation. The building-related characteristics of the various climatic zones form the basis for the made-to-measure development of integrated building solutions. Well-conceived graphics illustrate planning contexts and facilitate efficient planning decisions and realistic predimensioning. Materials, systems, and technologies are described, and their areas of application are pointed out. Reference parameters, costs, and the presentation of interrelationships equip the planner to make a strategic and well-informed selection.Table of ContentsVorwort: Über zukunftsfähiges Bauen Klima: Einführung Klima Einleitung Klima Wechselwirkung Klima-Gebäude Klimaelemente Klimafaktoren Außenklima und Raumklima Klimazonen Tropen: Einführung Klimazone Klimaanalyse und Wechselwirkung Bauen Städtebau Gebäude Fassade Raumkonditionierung Energieerzeugung Planungsregeln Subtropen: Einführung Klimazone Klimaanalyse und Wechselwirkung Bauen Städtebau Gebäude Fassade Raumkonditionierung Energieerzeugung Planungsregeln Wüsten: Einführung Klimazone Klimaanalyse und Wechselwirkung Bauen Städtebau Gebäude Fassade Raumkonditionierung Energieerzeugung Planungsregeln Gemäßigt: Einführung Klimazone Klimaanalyse und Wechselwirkung Bauen Städtebau Gebäude Fassade Raumkonditionierung Energieerzeugung Planungsregeln Kalt: Einführung Klimazone Klimaanalyse und Wechselwirkung Bauen Städtebau Gebäude Fassade Raumkonditionierung Energieerzeugung Planungsregeln Facility Management / Ökonomie: Einführung Planungsprozess Fassadenkonzepte Materialien Raumkonditionierung Energieerzeugung Gesamtübersicht Investitions- und Betriebskosten Glossar: Einführung Glossar Außenklima Gebäude Gebäudehülle Raumklima Energie Anhang

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Book SynopsisThe "2226" project was completed in 2013 and received an outstanding response from the media. The reason is the clever design of this office building - it manages completely without air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems. "If today we are installing a disproportionate amount of air- and water-based services in buildings in order to create comfortable conditions, we should ask ourselves whether there are not more effective methods", says Dietmar Eberle. His building demonstrates that low-tech is an alternative to the Passivhaus with its extensive services installations. However, ecological and economical building should also meet architectural criteria - proportion, spatial effect, surface texture and light are essential components affecting the comfort of users. The book documents this seminal model for a new architecture with a comprehensive range of photographs by Eduard Hueber, and uses drawings to explain the architectural and energy concepts. Knowledgeable essays by recognized experts on the perfectly balanced construction and function complete this unpretentious and yet sophisticated monograph of a building. Table of ContentsFlorian Aicher: Baustoff, Bauart, BaustellePeter Widerin: Steuerung BE2226Eduard Hueber: FotoessayPlandarstellungen

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Book SynopsisTimber: the old raw material and building material returns.There are many reasons today for building with wood and there are great advantages over conventional designs. Wood is not only a renewable building material that helps reduce the levels of CO2 and is hence good for climate change, but, due to modern computing and manufacturing processes, it can also be used for a variety of construction tasks. Wood possesses excellent qualities for both construction and indoor climate control, and can easily be combined with other common building materials. Based on 24 international projects, the book provides an overview of the range of possibilities in wood construction today. Texts, images, and plans document the architectural and constructive qualities of contemporary timber structures from the conceptual design to the structure in detail. The various uses are based on current research in modern timber engineering but also on timber construction expertise that has been developing over many centuries. This special discipline has evolved significantly in recent decades, particularly in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and is a world leader today.

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Book SynopsisIn which ways does a "green building" contribute to the ecology of its surroundings? And how can ecologically designed urban districts, with their green and blue networks, link up with the elements and technologies of building design? All dimensions of "green building" are investigated in this book in an effort to understand and evaluate some of the most recent and innovative Dense+Green Cities in Asia, the Americas and Europe.

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Book SynopsisNature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture. Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application: biologists, chemists, physicists, mineralogists, and paleontologists meet up with material scientists, engineers, and architects and transfer their knowledge to architecture and construction. Using numerous practical examples, this richly illustrated introduction traces the process from the understanding of how something functions, to abstraction—for example in computer models—and the construction of initial prototypes, through to fully functional manufacture and production.

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Book SynopsisWell-being in a building depends on a number of factors. Visuals, ventilation, heat, cooling, and acoustics are all key. Its efficiency relates not only to the design of a building; it can also be optimized and automated using the latest technologies and innovative environmentally friendly low-tech solutions. To build upon and add to the successful Modern Construction Handbook, Andrew Watts details innovative and established examples of interior design in Modern Environmental Design. These are presented with the aid of texts, drawings and 3D renderings.

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Book SynopsisWell-being in a building depends on a number of factors. Visuals, ventilation, heat, cooling, and acoustics are all key. Its efficiency relates not only to the design of a building; it can also be optimized and automated using the latest technologies and innovative environmentally friendly low-tech solutions. To build upon and add to the successful Modern Construction Handbook, Andrew Watts details innovative and established examples of interior design in Modern Environmental Design. These are presented with the aid of texts, drawings and 3D renderings.

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Book SynopsisDas Interesse an Lehm als Material ist ungebremst. Leichtlehm, leicht wiegend und auch leicht zu verarbeiten, ist ein vielseitiger und zukunftweisender Baustoff für den modernen computergestützten Holzbau wie für die Erneuerung historischen Lehmfachwerks. Ausgewogene, durch das Mischungsverhältnis steuerbare bauphysikalische Eigenschaften ermöglichen klimagerechtes, ressourcenschonendes Bauen in den verschiedensten Klimazonen. So werden Wärmespeicherung, Feuchte-, Schall- und Brandschutz des üblichen Holzbaus verbessert, die Konstruktionen vereinfacht. Volhards anerkanntes Standardwerk beschreibt detailliert die Herstellungsverfahren, gibt praktische Tipps für den Selbstbau und zeigt die Anwendung von Fertigbaustoffen in zeitgemäßer Bauabwicklung. Die 9. Auflage wurde korrigiert und aktualisiert.

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Book Synopsis While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban environments.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. Through the use of digital tools, the anatomy of wood becomes a design-determining principle for spatial structures. The architects and artists also explore the potential of traditional craftsmanship and derive from this a material-oriented practice. Structures are not designed here for a specific use, but rather open up various usage possibilities due to their unique spatial and geometric properties. The documentation provides insight into an open-ended research process. Guest contributions reflect on the underlying concepts and thus the future relevance of wood as a building material.

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Book Synopsis Innovation by Reduction How can architecture create a pleasant indoor climate using construction techniques and as little technology as possible? Researchers from four different departments at the Technical University of Munich joined forces with the engineering firm Transsolar Energietechnik to explore integral strategies for simple, energy-efficient construction. The architecture firm Florian Nagler Architekten implemented the plans developed by the TUM project for three prototype buildings made of solid wood, masonry and lightweight concrete in monolithic construction. Using these apartment buildings as examples, the guide vividly elucidates the six core principles of simple construction. Analysis of three exemplary apartment buildings Monolithic structures in wood, lightweight concrete, and brick The result of an interdisciplinary research project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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Book Synopsis Versatile wooden windows In her book, the trained carpenter and architect Judith Resch looks at what scope still exists in modern window design and construction. The process of simplification is more difficult to achieve for windows than for most building components, since windows, due to their function, must meet high technical specifications. She presents a variety of window design projects that have one thing in common: they pursue a singular design concept using the simplest possible means. All projects are presented in detail with technical drawings and photographs. 10 simple wooden window designs From retrofitting historical windows to the possibilities of DIY design Precisely designed, handcrafted, highly repairable windows

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Book Synopsis Solid matter. Monolithic and homogeneous concepts for a circular approach to architecture. In response to climate change, architects have been seeking a contemporary expression for durable, solid and homogeneous wall structures made of clay, wood, brick, concrete and recycled materials. This book follows 25 projects to analyze construction methods that predominantly involve materials that have a single origin and can be easily dismantled. It looks at a variety of different ways and scales in which architects have dealt with issues of mass and materiality, both in terms of design and construction. Structured according to the specific materials, the book allows direct comparisons, and renders visible solid building typologies and forms. Numerous drawings, developed especially for this book, document the projects. Two essays as well as interviews with Pepe Marquez and Arno Richter examine the strategies and background of monolithic architecture and solid construction methods. Solid building materials and their contribution to climate protection and sustainability Analytical presentations of single-variety and demountable construction methods Insights into research and applications of the materials

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Book Synopsis La 4ème édition française du Manuel Nouvelle édition, enrichie du chapitre « Considérations autour du climat » consacré aux principes de base de la construction adaptée au climat. De quel savoir technique et constructif a-t-on besoin pour réaliser des projets architecturaux variés ? Construire l’architecture propose dans cette quatrième édition française une vue d’ensemble des principes fondamentaux de la conception architecturale. Couronné par plusieurs prix internationaux et traduit en sept langues, cet ouvrage s’est imposé comme manuel de cours dans de nombreuses grandes écoles depuis sa parution en 2005. Il constitue par ailleurs un instrument de référence indispensable pour tous les architectes qui conçoivent le processus de construction comme un rapport dialectique complexe entre conception et mise en œuvre des matériaux. Optant pour une approche globale de la construction, cet ouvrage combine connaissances techniques et questions esthétiques et les envisage conjointement dans la perspective de l’histoire des civilisations. La construction n’y est pas conçue comme une simple question de technique ou de technologie, mais aussi comme le résultat d’une intention artistique qui se concrétisera avec d’autant plus de cohérence et de force que l’architecte maîtrisera les principes techniques et constructifs de base. Le livre se subdivise en quatre chapitres – Matériaux – Modules, Éléments, Structures, Édifices – et contient en annexe un catalogue présentant les éléments de construction. Tous les immeubles cités satisfont à de hautes exigences esthétiques ou jouent un rôle de premier plan dans l’histoire de l’architecture. D’une grande richesse iconographique, cet ouvrage contient plus de 1500 illustrations, plans et dessins de détails légendés. Le catalogue permet de comparer les détails de construction à l’échelle 1:20. Un index détaillé et des titres courants à toutes les pages facilitent l’orientation et la recherche ciblée d’informations. The French 4th Edition of the Handbook Systematically structured and didactically prepared, the book conveys in one volume the necessary basic technical and constructive building knowledge to enable readers to implement a wide range of designs. or this reason, over the last 18 years, it has developed into an indispensable information and reference handbook, not only for students and teachers, but also for architects. The English 5th edition of this standard work for building design has also been further revised in terms of content and expanded by 16 pages on sustainable building. The worldwide recognized construction handbook for architects Systematically structured and prepared with the student in mind, with an overview poster as navigation aid in world format Additional 16 pages "Basics of sustainable construction" Also available in German (978-3-0356-2663-6) and English (978-3-0356-2666-7)

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Book SynopsisDetails today Methods of construction are evolving rapidly, driven by sustainability demands, new technical possibilities, the optimization of materials, and more efficient processes. This precise and detailed analysis of 25 Swiss projects render visible the often-hidden innovation within contemporary architecture. Five different construction methods are documented using photographs and isometric analytical drawings of building shells at a scale of 1:15. This book is intended to stimulate a profound discussion of future developments. Detailed insight into construction methods using the example of contemporary Swiss architecture Isometric detail drawings and a unique photo essay Buildings by EMI, Caruso St John, Peter Märkli, Meier Hug, Esch Sintzel, and many more

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Book Synopsis Details today Methods of construction are evolving rapidly, driven by sustainability demands, new technical possibilities, the optimization of materials, and more efficient processes. This precise and detailed analysis of 25 Swiss projects render visible the often-hidden innovation within contemporary architecture. Five different construction methods are documented using photographs and isometric analytical drawings of building shells at a scale of 1:15. This book is intended to stimulate a profound discussion of future developments. Detailed insight into construction methods using the example of contemporary Swiss architecture Isometric detail drawings and a unique photo essay Buildings by EMI, Caruso St John, Peter Märkli, Meier Hug, Esch Sintzel, and many more

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Book Synopsis The construction sector currently accounts for a high proportion of CO2 emissions and gray energy use. This will have to change fundamentally if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change and make urban planning and construction fit for the future. In addition to a paradigm shift in how architects work, we need to rethink how they are trained in higher education. Based on a lifecycle approach and an awareness of resource consumption, this volume in the Basics series explains a wide range of climate-friendly concepts in an easy-to-understand way, inspiring readers to take a closer look at solutions and new approaches in their daily practice. The key factors involved in the various planning stages of buildings are presented and placed in the context of the overall planning. Explains a range of current sustainability concepts Foundational knowledge for all students of architecture Interdisciplinary and networked consideration of chall

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Book SynopsisNew fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. It follows a series of talks curated by the Melbourne School of Design to extend the debate on the missing links between architectural practice and housing research. New fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing In-detail port

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Book SynopsisThis book, the rst in a planned series, reports on the Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a global perspective on cities from the vantage point of Asia, where the laboratory is based. This view has particular signi cance today as the fortunes of Asia, the world's most populous and rapidly urbanising continent, will also delineate the prospects of the planet.The series as a whole will assemble the necessary indicia-indications, clues, evidence-on how cities grow and ourish, produce and innovate, consume and waste, threaten and destroy, to form practical strategies for future city making. The rst volume in the series focuses on the challenges that future cities pose to sustainability. The second will concentrate on the innovative approaches necessary for addressing those challenges. The third will present concrete scenarios and action plans that emerge from such approaches.

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Book SynopsisZur Sicherstellung des Werterhalts von Immobilien werden zunehmend nachhaltige Aspekte im Planungsprozess berücksichtigt. Dies erfordert bereits in der Phase der Projektentwicklung eine ganzheitliche Betrachtung sowohl der zur Errichtung und zum Betrieb eines Gebäudes entstehenden Aufwände bestehend aus Errichtungs- und Folgekosten (=Lebenszykluskosten) als auch der in der Betriebsphase zu erwartenden Erträge. Durch die Gegenüberstellung der Aufwände zu den Erträgen ergibt sich die Lebenszyklusrendite (LZR) als Faktor zur Prognose der Rentabilität einer Investition. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung einer Methodik zur kostenoptimierten und lebenszyklusorientierten Steuerung der Gebäudeplanung entweder in der Phase der Projektentwicklung oder in einer frühen Planungsphase in Kombination mit der Anwendung von "Building Information Modeling" (BIM). Als Grundlage für diese Methodik wird die frühzeitige Einbindung der zu diesem frühen Zeitpunkt vorhandenen Erkenntnisse in ein Bauwerksmodell untersucht, um eine Steigerung der Produktivität und Effizienz in den nachfolgenden Planungsphasen zu erreichen. Die automatisierte Ermittlung der LZR erfolgt durch ein seitens des Autors entwickeltes Software Tool.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Grundlagen digitaler Bauwerksmodellierung.- Modellbasierte Renditebetrachtung.- LZR Kalkulationsmodell.- Aufbau und Anwendung LZR Tool.- Verifikation.- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

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Book SynopsisDieses Essential fasst prägnant zusammen, warum die Prinzipien der Kreislaufwirtschaft für die Bauwirtschaft im Kontext von Klimawandel und zunehmender Ressourcenknappheit unabdingbar sind. Es gibt Einblicke in Umsetzungsstrategien und Projektbeispiele, beleuchtet die elementaren Methoden zur Messbarkeit von sektorspezifischen CO2-Emissionen und wirft einen systemischen Blick auf die Wertschöpfungskette Bau sowie die Implikationen, Potenziale und Risiken der Umsetzung.Table of ContentsZirkuläre Bauwirtschaft.- Die Prinzipien der Kreislaufwirtschaft.- Strategien für die Umsetzung.- Systemischer Blick.

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Book SynopsisAt a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic change in the climate has led to the realization that capitalism has a destructive effect on the environment. Our lifestyle must be reevaluated in order to positively impact both present and future.The ongoing use of fossil fuels, the development of industrial zones in city centres, and even the growing use of air-conditioning units are leading to a significant rise in temperatures and to the acceleration of extreme climatic change. Nevertheless, most individuals do not yet connect their daily lives to the climate changes in their immediate surroundings, and even those who are aware of these changes do not necessarily choose a course of action. Global warming has been widely recognized by scientists as caused by humans. Efficient solutions to these concerns may be found on a local level, where the engagement of urban communities may prove to be effective in combating environmental damage. This publication addresses an approach involving multiple possibilities for climate-related actions, most notably in the context of individual cities. Six thematic chapters examine case studies from cities including Chicago, New York, Masdar, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Shanghai, and Tel Aviv.

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Book Synopsis Plants and architecture: two seemingly opposite elements. How can we combine them to plan future cities that are closer to nature? What synergies can we explore? Hortitecture seeks to discover the creative and construction potentials of vital plant material, and explores its applications in ecosystem services and urban food production.Through research at the intersections of architecture, biology, and technology, IDAS (Institute for Design and Architectural Strategies) explores this topic with the aim of transferring the knowledge gained to the design of buildings. This book documents the projects, ideas, and experiences shared by thirty-three international experts at symposia held at TU Braunschweig. Their critical reflections advance the awareness and expertise needed to develop a nature-based urban architecture. With contributions by Stefano Boeri, Thomas Corbasson, Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ, Christoph Ingenhoven, Vo Trong Nghia, Elisabeth Kather, Klaus K. Loenhart, Ferdinand Ludwig and Daniel Schönle, Fuensanta Nieto, Chris Precht, Jacob van Rijs, Tomás Saraceno, Diana Scherer, Dan Wood, Ken Yeang, and others

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Book SynopsisKlimawandel und Ressourcenverknappung, aber auch der stetig steigende Verkehrsaufwand machen es unabdingbar, neue Lösungen für eine umweltschonende und menschenfreundliche Mobilität zu entwickeln. Mit dem Ausbau digitaler Informationssysteme werden wir zukünftig unterschiedliche Verkehrsträger entsprechend unseren Bedürfnissen leicht kombinieren können. Diese Entwicklungen sind für die Gestaltung verschiedener Mobilitätsräume eine große Herausforderung. Lag der Schwerpunkt in Band 1 auf der Praxis, versammelt Band 2 nun Forschungen aus den Bereichen Design, Architektur, Stadtplanung, Geografie, Sozialwissenschaft, Verkehrsplanung, Psychologie und Kommunikationstechnologie. Die aktuelle Diskussion über die Verkehrswende wird um die Perspektive des nutzer*innenzentrierten Mobilitätsdesigns erweitert.

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Book SynopsisClimate change, increasing resource scarcity, and rising traffic volumes are forcing us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. With the expansion of digital information systems, we will soon be able to reconfigure different modes of transport to suit our needs. These developments represent a significant challenge for designing a wide range of different mobility spaces. While Volume 1 of this series focused on practical aspects, Volume 2 collects research methods and findings from the fields of design, architecture, urban planning, geography, social sciences, traffic planning, psychology, and communication technologies. The book’s consideration of the possibilities and prospects of usercentred mobility design offers an important contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the mobility revolution.

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Book SynopsisWenn es um den Klimawandel geht, sind Kreisläufe zu einem entscheidenden Thema geworden. Geschlossene Kreisläufe, Wiederverwendung, Recycling und erneuerbare Materialien sind viel diskutierte Ideen in der Architektur und im Produktdesign. In diesem Buch weiten die Autor*innen das Konzept des Circular Design auf die territoriale Dimension aus, mit der Absicht, Lebensräumen durch den Einsatz von entwurfsgeleiteter Forschung und Entwurfsdenken zu mehr Resilienz und Nachhaltigkeit zu verhelfen. Anhand von Fallstudien aus ganz Europa, die neue Narrative im Städtebau mit sozialer Innovation und Kreativwirtschaft verbinden, zielt Circular Design darauf ab, dynamische Felder und Netzwerke von Ideen, Menschen und Räumen zu aktivieren.

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