Download or read book Tensile Architecture in the Urban Context written by Rudi Scheuermann and published by Architectual Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes long span buildings, tensile structures, membrane and cable net structures. Includes: Schlumberger Works; Diplomatic Club, Riyadh; Research facilities for Schlumberger, Cambridge; Canada Harbour Place; Mound Stand; German Pavilion, Seville; Arche de la Defence, Paris.
Download or read book Tensile Structures and Their Use in Urban Context written by R. Scheuermann and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture Multifonctionnelle 34 Exemples Internationaux written by Eberhard H. Zeidler and published by New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold. This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Context in Architecture written by Yu Hui Yin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Urban Housing Handbook written by Eric Firley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE URBAN HOUSING HANDBOOK An insightful and revealing look at the intersection of housing and urban design In the newly revised Second Edition of The Urban Housing Handbook, Eric Firley and Victor Deupi deliver a vital design and analysis tool for housing practitioners, students, and researchers. The book outlines the characteristics of 30 of the most notable housing types from around the world, studied against a background of increasing densification. Each of the 30 chapters includes a fully-explored tradi tional example followed by one or two contemporary projects of similar spatial configuration that address changing trends in architecture and urban design. For this latest edition all contemporary examples have been updated and are now presented on two full spreads per chapter. Other features include: A rigorous analytical method that classifies the types according to four main categories (courtyard houses, row houses, compounds and apartment buildings) A thorough introduction to the relationship between an individual housing unit and the urban fabric that it creates through repetition A strong focus on dense metropolitan projects from around the world A set of key figures that translate visual information into metrics Unique, original drawings of illustrated housing accompanied by aerial and street-level context photos Conceived for architects and urban designers, The Urban Housing Handbook is also an ideal resource for urban planners, housing developers, builders, and housing trust professionals.
Download or read book Textiles Polymers and Composites for Buildings written by G Pohl and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textiles, polymers and composites are increasingly being utilised within the building industry. This pioneering text provides a concise and representative overview of the opportunities available for textile, polymer and composite fibres to be used in construction and architecture. The first set of chapters examine the main types and properties of textiles, polymers and composites used in buildings. Key topics include the types and production of textiles, the use of polymer foils and fibre reinforced polymer composites as well as textiles and coatings for tensioned membrane structures. The second part of the book presents a selection of applications within the building industry. Chapters range from the use of textiles in tensile structures, sustainable building concepts with textile materials, innovative composite-fibre applications for architecture, to smart textile and polymer fibres for structural health monitoring. With its distinguished editor and team of international contributors, Textiles, polymers and composites for buildings is an important reference for architects, fabric manufacturers, fibre-composite experts, civil engineers, building designers, academics and students. Provides a concise and representative overview of the opportunities available for textile, polymer and composite fibres to be used in construction Provides an insight into how high-tech textiles already influence our daily lives as well as potential applications in modern buildings Features a thorough discussion of technical characteristics and requirements of textiles used for buildings and construction
Download or read book Ephemeral Architecture written by Galen Rochon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis considers ephemeral architecture as a tool to integrate former industrial structures with their surrounding urban context. Buildings and infrastructure are subject to fluctuations in use and occasionally of abandonment. Temporary urban design and ephemeral architecture introduce new spatial and programmatic ideas to places, and have the potential to infuse abandoned structures with new life. Spanning the Ottawa River between the cities of Ottawa and Gatineau is an abandoned railway bridge. Since the time of its construction the infrastructure lost much of its original significance and has remained vacant for over 20 years. The proposed design consists of a series of tensile structures within the Prince of Wales Bridge. The tensile structures compress and expand the existing geometry, creating areas for different activities. The site-specific intervention integrates the former industrial structure with the surrounding urban fabric and establishes a universal design methodology for the repurposing of former industrial structures.
Download or read book Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design written by Kevin Thwaites and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design provides the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable and long-term solutions to the design and management of urban environments.
Download or read book Revitalizing City Districts written by Hebatalla Abouelfadl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on the processes leading to planning and design. Urban form and its fabric result from a multitude of individual interests, ideas and decisions which in turn result in specific and locally diverse spatial arrangements. These processes which are shaping our built environment are embedded in and determined by different contexts of political, cultural and social-economic norms and values. Urban development and the transformation of urban structures are triggered by technological innovations, laws and taxes, new behaviors or the impact of environmental conditions as well as other factors. Based on case studies from Egypt and the Middle East, together with some cases from Germany and Turkey, this book covers a wide range of change processes focused on historic and inner city districts.
Download or read book The Structure of the Ordinary written by N. J. Habraken and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-08-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the everyday environment as the first and best ground for establishing the significance and coherence of architecture. According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The Structure of the Ordinary, the culmination of decades of environmental observation and design research, is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture. The author's central argument is that built environment is universally organized by the Orders of Form, Place, and Understanding. These three fundamental, interwoven principles correspond roughly to physical, biological, and social domains. Historically, "ordinary" environment was the background against which architects built the "extraordinary." Drawing upon extensive examples from archaeological and contemporary sites worldwide, the author illustrates profound recent shifts in the structure of everyday environment. One effect of these transformations, Habraken argues, has been the loss of implicit common understanding that previously enabled architects to formally enhance and innovate while still maintaining environmental coherence. Consequently, architects must now undertake a study of the ordinary as the fertile common ground in which form- and place-making are rooted. In focusing on built environment as an autonomous entity distinct from the societies and natural environments that jointly create it, this book lays the foundation for a new dialogue on methodology and pedagogy, in support of a more informed approach to professional intervention.
Download or read book Architecture of the Rail written by Gregory Kenji Iboshi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is the pursuit of a sensitivity for the relationship between urban infrastructure and architectural form, an attempt to restore a quality of "publicness" in the urban landscape through the implementation of a transit structure. It is the investigation of the physical qualities which could potentially incorporate rail structures as useful elements in the city fabric. Approaching the rail structure as an architectural element which will serve as a framework for the existing and potential city. The intent of the proposal is to challenge the notion of the transit line as a solely technical feat; works of public infrastructure hold a potential to greatly affect our cities and our lives far beyond their expected utility. I suggest an alternative study of the possibilities and effects of these structures as architectural artifact in the urban context and explore the ability for transit systems to act as participants in the life of the city.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture written by James Stevens Curl and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 6,000 entries, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available.
Download or read book Research Tracks in Urbanism Dynamics Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories written by Alessia Allegri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.
Download or read book From Ubiquitous to Unique written by Kyle L. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary buildings, especially in the urban-American Midwest, are ubiquitously bland. This is not to say there are no good architects or good architecture, but it appears thoughtfulness, innovation and connection are reserved only for those signature buildings, the foreground of architecture. In fact, urban America is copy after copy of the same city with only a few distinguishing landmarks. While foreground buildings are important and act as primary roles in distinguishing place, the majority of the built world, the greater urban fabric, acts as the primary role in defining place. This realm, which shall be called the background or background architecture, is left up to developers and contractors who design based on business models of efficiency and the bottom line, models founded upon global capitalism, consumer society and the will of white, middle-class America. Universally applied, these models result in universally dull projects, which is why if blindfolded and dropped within the grid of Cleveland, Ohio, one may just as likely mistake it as Louisville, Kentucky. Nikolaus Pevsner said, "A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture." Background buildings, particularly in the urban context, are not bicycle sheds, but they are designed as such. They should be well-composed, responsive to local culture and contribute to defining a sense of place. They certainly should not be Lincoln Cathedrals, but as bicycle sheds they are not enriching the society they serve. The foreground may have the power to attract a visitor, but only the background has the power to attract a resident. Contemporary society and architecture's response to it follows the mode of global modernization. This process, which Kenneth Frampton calls, "universal civilization," proposes all conditions should be the same everywhere. Progress, under universal civilization, is only achieved through abandonment of culture, disregard of history and the insatiable appetite for tomorrow's offerings as necessary steps toward becoming "Modern." As Paul Connerton writes, "Culturally induced forgetting is reinforced by the temporality of consumption, which renders even more inaccessible to immediate perception the process of reification intrinsic to commodity exchange by focusing attention even more insistently on immediate perception." In other words, our desire for perceived value, our facade, numbs our sense of real value, our core and structure. Global modernization is destroying a local sense of place, that is, "a qualitative, 'total' phenomenon, which we cannot reduce to any of its properties ... and cannot [describe] by means of analytic, 'scientific' concepts" (Norberg-Schulz). Architecture has for too long focused on making spaces--objects placed in an objective field and designed based on objective data--whereas architecture should be about making places. Architecture should not only express global conditions, which are present and undeniable, but it should also reflect local conditions, addressing the reality of diversity with respect to activities, class, ethnicity, people and places. Such localized socio-cultural issues provide the opportunity for architecture to identify and create a sense of place that is unique instead of ubiquitous.
Download or read book Design of Urban Space written by Ali Madanipour and published by . This book was released on 1996-11-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madanipour draws together the major themes in urban design today - uncertainty regarding nature and scope, increased demand for courses in urban design, and increased demand for research into the subject.
Download or read book American Urban Architecture written by Wayne Attoe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attoe and Logan propose a specifically American theory of urban design. Arguing that theories of urban design, especially theories about the remaking of cities, have been largely European in origin and thus of questionable value in American contexts, the authors see the characteristic features of American cities--the grid, loft buildings, distinctive styling, and so forth--as opportunities for a specifically American urbanism.
Download or read book The Architecture of the Museum written by Michaela Giebelhausen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Louvre to the Bilbao Guggenheim and Tate Modern, the museum has had a long-standing relationship with the city. Examination of the meaning of museum architecture in the urban environment, considering issues such as forms of civic representation, urban regeneration, cultural tourism and the museumification of the city itself. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present day, case-studies are drawn from Europe, South America and Australia. Contributions written by J.Birksted, V.Fraser, H.Lewi, D.J.Meijers and others.
