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Book Tropical House Design Handbook

Download or read book Tropical House Design Handbook written by Etik2a and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with accessible information, this book covers all the technical and practical aspects of home design in tropical environments. It begins by outlining the prerequisites needed to understand the issues involved (climate, heat, thermal comfort, etc.) and discusses the solutions offered by traditional housing. It then identifies current solutions for protecting buildings and their occupants from solar radiation and external heat, while promoting bioclimatic and environmentally friendly approaches. The economic viability of the solutions identified is discussed, as are the advantages and disadvantages of the materials, depending on the context and standards in force. Numerous examples illustrate how buildings can be adapted to local realities, from the avant-garde creations of Jean Prouvé to those of today's architects who are committed to sustainable development, as well as specific projects incorporating the recommendations made in this book. More than 460 photos, drawings, diagrams, tables, maps, house plans, logos and pictograms illustrate this reference work for all those involved in construction in tropical regions, particularly students in the field and, more generally, anyone - from professionals to private individuals - looking for useful information on this subject.

Book Tropical House Design Handbook

Download or read book Tropical House Design Handbook written by ETIK2A and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with accessible information, this book covers all the technical and practical aspects of home design in tropical environments. It begins by outlining the prerequisites needed to understand the issues involved (climate, heat, thermal comfort, etc.) and discusses the solutions offered by traditional housing. It then identifies current solutions for protecting buildings and their occupants from solar radiation and external heat, while promoting bioclimatic and environmentally friendly approaches. The economic viability of the solutions identified is discussed, as are the advantages and disadvantages of the materials, depending on the context and standards in force. Numerous examples illustrate how buildings can be adapted to local realities, from the avant-garde creations of Jean Prouvé to those of today’s architects who are committed to sustainable development, as well as specific projects incorporating the recommendations made in this book. More than 460 photos, drawings, diagrams, tables, maps, house plans, logos and pictograms illustrate this reference work for all those involved in construction in tropical regions, particularly students in the field and, more generally, anyone – from professionals to private individuals – looking for useful information on this subject.

Book The Tropical Modern House

Download or read book The Tropical Modern House written by Raul A. Barreneche and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raul A. Barreneche has searched the globe including such spectacular locales as Hawaii, St. Barts, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, and India to bring together a collection of luxurious modern homes designed by such luminaries as Isay Weinfeld, Marcio Kogan, Kerry Hill, and Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku, among many others.

Book Tropical Houses

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  • Author : Frederick Lovejoy Wellman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Tropical Houses written by Frederick Lovejoy Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tropical Modern

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  • Author : Raul A. Barreneche
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Tropical Modern written by Raul A. Barreneche and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out with the cool, in with the hot. These houses by such luminaries as Oscar Niemeyer, Gio Ponti, Geoffrey Bawa, and Isay Weinfeld are a perfectly seamless continuum of indoor-outdoor space. The author has traveled the globe to bring together a collection of luxurious modern homes that combine modern technology with local, often exotic materials to produce rich designs of wood, metal, stucco, and glass. Water and breezeways figure prominently, and "green" eco-conscious features emerge naturally from the tropical design environment. This is a sophisticated survey of modern houses with open floor plans, exterior courtyards, sunny patios, and cool stucco surfaces all touched by the exotic flavors of their tropical locales. The combination of modern architectural form and tropical settings is extending and revitalizing modernism as never before.

Book Tropical Houses

Download or read book Tropical Houses written by David Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tropical Home

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  • Author : Kim Inglis
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-13
  • ISBN : 1462906079
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Tropical Home written by Kim Inglis and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Asian interior design and architecture book showcases the best luxury homes and interior spaces of the Pacific region. Asia has emerged in the last couple of decades as the global leader in tropical villa design. With innovative indoor/outdoor architecture engineered to facilitate relaxed, al fresco lifestyles, there are myriad solutions to suit every taste and pocket. Featuring hundreds of homes, garden estates, hotels, restaurants and more from India to Indochina, Indonesia to Sri Lanka, the design book gives a tantalizing glimpse of the latest trends for tropical wannabe decorators. Full-color photography of interiors and exteriors, garden features, pools and pavilions, as well as decorative details and fashion forward furniture, is accompanied by insightful text that traces past history and present trends, and predicts what is to come, design wise, in the future.

Book Living Modern Tropical

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  • Author : Phyllis Richardson
  • Publisher : Thames and Hudson
  • Release : 2012-09-11
  • ISBN : 9780500516409
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Living Modern Tropical written by Phyllis Richardson and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful resource influenced by life in the tropics that applies modern concerns— balance, proportion, space, and light—to a variety of settings and environments Published in 2010, Living Modern is the ultimate resource for contemporary living. Defining the “modern” space as much more than “modernist,” the book showcases global interiors with clean lines, sophisticated color combinations, outdoor rooms, great design objects, and open areas for relaxing and eating. Now, with a new selection of photography and houses, Living Modern Tropical applies these attributes to tropical climates, where the expression of modern living has found its natural home. The book is organized into ten sections: nature, architecture, outdoors, elements, function, light, furniture, details, materials, and water. Each features themed subsections that focus on the attributes most enjoyed in tropical spaces. But regardless of where you live, here are hundreds of design ideas that will provide inspiration for every room in the house.

Book Tropical Minimal

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  • Author : Danielle Miller
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2006-04-25
  • ISBN : 0500512914
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tropical Minimal written by Danielle Miller and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most pleasurable aspects of tropical living combine with a con-temporary sensibility to create an entirely new and exciting book on interior design. Living in a tropical climate, with rich vegetation, wide beaches, and relaxed attitudes has inspired a wide range of creative and appealing interiors and design, often influenced by local crafts and building traditions, climatic considerations, and the desire to maximize indoor-outdoor living. Selecting the best examples from far-flung locations around the tropics—from Brazil to New Zealand, from Florida to Singapore—Tropical Minimal demonstrates how exotic surroundings can be enhanced through simple touches and combined with pared-down furnishings. Photographed specially for this volume, examples are presented in six chapters that cover the gamut of tropical-minimal design and architecture—living, dining, bathing, sleeping, and relaxing outdoors. A visual reference section focuses on design details, from wood and terraces to planting and pools. 281 color illustrations.

Book Tropical Houses

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  • Author : Michelle Galindo
  • Publisher : Braun Publishing AG
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9783037680957
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Tropical Houses written by Michelle Galindo and published by Braun Publishing AG. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The houses featured in this volume embrace the tropical lifestyle with exotic local materials and eco-conscious features.

Book Tropical Houses

Download or read book Tropical Houses written by Tim Street-Porter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the highly successful and groundbreaking Los Angeles House, Tim Street-Porter now takes us with him to the magnificent colour and flavour of Asia, Australia, Africa and Central America: into the homes (and a few secluded hotels) of the tropics. The book's lavish photographs, supported by Street-Porter's fascinating and informed commentary, capture the appeal and the meaning of the enviable dwellings he found on his journeys around the tropics, showing the very best and most original of the regions' diverse styles and serene home designs.

Book New Malaysian House

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  • Author : Robert Powell
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2012-05-22
  • ISBN : 1462906192
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book New Malaysian House written by Robert Powell and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Malaysian House is a collection of 25 contemporary houses that demonstrate a remarkable flowering of Malaysian design talent that has been germinating since the mid- 1980s. The houses range from luxury detached bungalows set in extensive tropical gardens to weekend retreats in the forest, from the gated communities springing up throughout Malaysia to extended family homes. All are distinguished by a singular quality of innovative design as the architects sought to explore new approaches for designing with the climate and in the cultural context of Malaysia.

Book Tropical House

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  • Author : Elizabeth Reyes
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2012-04-02
  • ISBN : 1462906133
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Tropical House written by Elizabeth Reyes and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pore over this collection of cutting-edge home designs from The Philippines. The Tropical House: Cutting Edge Design in the Philippines celebrates a growing trend toward globalization in interior design. More than 25 stunning houses and condos in and around Manila, the Philippines, evoke a distinctive tropical-modern-fusion style that is gaining popularity around the world. All these elegant residences comprise a synthesis of East-West trends and contemporary furnishings--as Filipino designers merge sleek modernist furniture with local designers' "soulful creations" in natural hardwoods and other tropical materials. Over 250 full-color photographs of outstanding Philippines architecture will inspire readers with their diverse and contemporary looks. From vintage charm to modern with bold, artful accents, to the clean, glamorous new look known as "contemporary chic," this book showcases the myriad tastes of the Philippines' design world. The selection features modernist designs referred to as Zen or Minimalist; admires the modern Global Eclectics, those well-traveled collectors of beautiful objects from East and West; and celebrates the individualists who mix European furniture with acutely creative accents from local designers. Take a glimpse into the rich world of the Philippines interior design in The Tropical House.

Book Paradise by Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Bensley
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 1462906818
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Paradise by Design written by Bill Bensley and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Asian design book, featuring hundreds of stunning color photographs and insightful commentary, showcases the art, architecture and design of the East. Eclectic, baroque and sophisticated--such are the characteristics of the lifestyle resorts and extravagant private residences crafted by the renowned Bensley Design Studios in Bangkok and Bali. The 27 resorts and homes featured in Paradise by Design are set amidst resplendent tropical gardens and spread from China to India to Bali. Focused in Asia Pacific, these buildings are unconventional, sensual and hold a special reverence for the tropical climate. Focusing not only on the architecture of the buildings but also the landscape design, interior design, horticulture and fine arts and crafts found within and without these buildings, Paradise by Design transcends the traditional and details an inclusive look at some of the most stylish and diverse homes and resorts in Asia.

Book Living Under the Sun

Download or read book Living Under the Sun written by Michelle Galindo and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropics are a way of life. Embracing outdoor surroundings as much as indoor possibilities, tropical houses have become a source of new impulses for architecture, interiors, and furniture design worldwide.

Book The Hawaii Home Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Anderson (Travel writer)
  • Publisher : Watermark Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780975374092
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Hawaii Home Book written by Karen Anderson (Travel writer) and published by Watermark Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the fcomplete guide t othe care and maintenance of your biggest investment. From battling bugs to saving energy costs, this expert advice from industry professionals helps you meet the unique challenges of owning a home in Hawaii.

Book Manual Of Tropical Housing   Building

Download or read book Manual Of Tropical Housing Building written by Otto H Koenigsberger and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed As A Textbook For Students Of Architecture, Housing, Environmental Design And Climate Control In Tropical Countries, This Book Deals With The Theory Of Climatic Design And Shows How Practical Solutions Are Derived From Theoretical Understanding.