Download or read book Holistic Housing written by Hans Drexler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes" is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life cycle'. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning. 15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building's significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.
Download or read book A Holistic Concept for Public Housing and Its Residents written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Building in Public Housing written by Naparstek, Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Holistic Approach to Housing written by Bisini Naidoo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of Affordable Housing written by Sam Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how that housing fits comfortably into our communities. It is a non-technical analysis for everyone interested in the creation of affordable housing.
Download or read book Cohousing Communities written by Charles Durrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a groundbreaking and holistic new approach to designing community-first neighborhoods In Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods, distinguished architect and affordable housing advocate Charles Durrett delivers a complete, start-to-finish guide for designing anything where the emphasis lies with the community. This book describes the consequential role that architecture and a healthy design process can play in the success of neighborhoods, churches, towns, and more. It’s an inspiring collection of ideas that prioritize high-functioning neighborhoods. In the book, the author draws on the success of hundreds of community-first projects to show readers how to design a project that addresses both timeless and modern challenges—from aging to climate change and racism—in its architecture and urban design. He compiles facts and concepts that are essential to the design of a high-functioning community, where people can participate in a way that reflects their values, improves their social connections, and retain their autonomy and privacy. Readers will also find: Ideas for town planning, street planning, and other town altering improvements Discussions of how developers can make better multifamily housing Explorations of how planners and politicians can make high-functioning neighborhoods a cornerstone of their community In-depth treatments of families who want to confirm that they’re choosing the right neighborhood Perfect for university students and professors who strive to see new ways to create neighborhoods, Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods will also appeal to universities planning new neighborhoods for retired alumni or new housing for students and faculty. Praise for Charles Durrett and Cohousing Communities: “...Get and read Cohousing Communities... Read it from the front cover to the back cover. It’s The Bible of Cohousing. And, like The Bible, it needs to be STUDIED not just read. Mark it up w/ your questions. Highlight, underline, write in the margins, fold the corners... This way you will gather your understanding how building cohousing gets “done," create your pathway to “Getting It Built”... and, most importantly get everyone on the same page for working together.” -- Ann Zabaldo, Executive Director, Mid Atlantic Cohousing
Download or read book Rebuilding Community in America written by Ken E. Norwood and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair written by Herbert J. Rubin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-04-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities and empowerment within poor areas.
Download or read book Sustainable by Design written by Hans Drexle and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating the entire spectrum of sustainability into the process of design and planning is the most important question in architectural debates today. This book presents in structured fashion the different goals and aspects of sustainability and the internationally valid parameters for standardization and evaluation. It surveys the various contexts and works out practical procedures. In the section of examples, twenty outstanding international residential buildings of all sizes and typologies are presented, showing how the design qualities influence how the building is experienced. This panorama of sustainability provides architects and engineers with inspiration and assistance to achieve sustainability goals in their daily work, but it is equally interesting to developers and investors who are involved in decision making and the building process.
Download or read book The Holistic Home written by David F. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Vibe Home written by Kirsten Yadouga and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an interior designer and modern feng shui expert, High Vibe Home is a luxe handbook for creating restorative spaces that feel as good as they look. Create a home that feels as good as it looks. From an interior designer and energy practitioner, High Vibe Home teaches readers how to design harmonious spaces that invite free-flowing, positive energy into their homes and lives. By decluttering and cleaning, arranging furniture, decorating with crystals or houseplants, incorporating new colors, textures, and more, anyone, on any budget, can design a home with high vibes. The book outlines key design principles and energy rules that contribute to a nourishing home, and then, room-by-room, offers achievable ways to put those practices into place. In a luxe package, this handbook is woven through with atmospheric photography, evocative shots of styled decor elements, and helpful diagrams. High Vibe Home is a must-have for design aficionados, wellness enthusiasts, and anyone interested in crystals, feng shui, or energy work. Alongside smudge sticks or a cozy throw, it's a thoughtful gift for a girlfriend's birthday or a housewarming party. ACCESSIBLE PRACTICES: High Vibe Home offers achievable, affordable practices to make spaces feel more Zen. Anyone, on any budget, can make these small adjustments to improve their home and in turn, channel that newfound positive energy into other areas of their life. MORE THAN JUST HOME DECOR: This book is not simply a collection of design tips; it also teaches how to foster specific types of energy in your space—calming, invigorating, healing, etc. These choices can have an outsize impact on not just your mood but also your relationships, career, and health. ON TREND: The wellness trend is still going strong, and holistic interior design is an extension of that. There are sections throughout the book on crystals, chakras, feng shui, and other types of energy work, which will appeal to those interested in these on-trend wellness topics. Perfect for: • Anyone looking for ways to make their home lovelier or more Zen • People interested in energy work, crystals, or feng shui • Shoppers looking for a Mother's Day, hostess, or housewarming gift
Download or read book Holistic Revitalization in Small Post industrial Cities written by Jeffrey J. Beam and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) Against the background of the broader evolution of holistic housing development, the cases directly address the unique challenges of small cities. Comparing the cases and their formative partnerships, concepts and strategies yields a wide range of data to support an idea of Holistic revitalization in these places. The primary data include over twenty hours of interviews with project proponents and stakeholders, as well as development proposals, zoning opinions, financing applications, consultant reports and local press coverage. Together, they provide a detailed view of Holistic revitalization and the tools of its implementation in small post-industrial cities.
Download or read book A Holistic Sense of Home A Quick Guide to Designing a Better Quality of Life written by Deborah Rae Cerni and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Home is more than a house. It is a sacred location, a place of aspiration and dreams, of learning and habit, of relationships and heart. Home is the geography of our souls." --Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World; A Spiritual Revolution Transform your daily experiences and more with the holistic design approach in this book. Many of us who want and actively pursue optimal well-being often overlook the pervasive impact of our home spaces. If you feel you may be missing a piece - or peace - for the uplifting lifestyle and the quality of life you want and deserve, you may find it at home. With our daily environments, we set up behavioral patterns and internal responses that can help or interfere with our well-being at every level. Thought leaders such as Deepak Chopra and Dan Buettner of Blue Zones fame have addressed the importance of designing indoor spaces to stack the deck in favor of a happy, healthy life. Big business, institutions, and specialty industries have effectively used many of these principles for decades. This book gives you pragmatic tips and an easy-to-understand framework to apply them at home. Whatever your personal style, A Holistic Sense of Home is an inspiring guide to go beyond fragmented, superficial approaches to your design dilemmas.
Download or read book Holistic Home written by Maxine Fox and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the physical and emotional makeup of a home are considered in these affordable ideas for implementing holistic design in domestic life. The use of natural building materials, the selection of organic foods and cleaning supplies, the need for comfortable clothes and furniture, and routines for health and safety are covered in the first section of the book, with aesthetic and spiritual comforts taking the stage in the complementary discussion of therapeutic design, color, and lighting in a room. Ultimately, the choices made in furnishing a house reach beyond its four walls to touch neighbors, the community, and the universal spirit.
Download or read book Recipe for Wellness written by Elizabeth Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alleviating Affordable Housing Stigma by Design written by Cody R. Price and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “affordable housing” has many stigmas attached to it and to its residents. Although research has found these stigmas as false, not-in-my-back-yard (NIMBY) activists still use them to try to keep affordable housing out of their neighborhood. Residents fear that affordable housing will be unattractive, poorly maintained, lower property values, and increase crime in the area. Because architectural design could affect property values, crime, maintenance, and its attractiveness, it makes sense to consider whether design alone (something we can control) can reduce stigmatization towards affordable housing. Thus, the following dissertation examines the use of architectural design as a tool to alleviate affordable housing stigma. To examine this issue, I designed, implemented, and analyzed three survey studies. Each study surveyed homeowners within the United States at either the local, state, or national level. The first study, Design and the Stigma of Affordable Housing, found that homeowners who could correctly identify affordable housing were less likely to accept it near them than those who could not. This suggests that when affordable housing fits the existing fabric and blends in with the neighborhood, it is more likely accepted than if it is poorly designed and does not fit in with the neighborhood. The second study, Symbolism of Affordable Housing, examined the role of design aesthetics and symbolic meaning of affordable housing to uncover effects of specific design elements and building styles on perceptions that a house is an affordable house. The study found that a building’s style and its design elements evoke a sense of affordability over others. This suggests that even if the costs are higher, planners, developers, and architects need to design and build affordable housing that resemble single-family homes, that uses a non-plain exterior, materials that look expensive like brick, ornate, more windows, large doors and entrances, more landscaping, chimneys, and columns to reduce its association with affordable housing. The third study, Housing Design to Alleviate Affordable Housing Stigma, sought to develop a measure of affordable housing stigma and to establish its factor structure and psychometric properties. I developed a 28-item questionnaire around the seven stigmas of affordable housing identified in the literature. Notably, the analyses found that the design aesthetics of affordable housing related to perceived property value, maintenance, and crime. This suggests that good design can have positive effects on property value, maintenance, and crime. These findings offer a holistic view of affordable housing stigma, which can help advocates, planners, and developers to create more inclusive communities. The findings from these studies have several implications for planning practice. The first two studies suggest ways to alleviate affordable housing stigma by providing specific design elements and building styles to make homes look less affordable. The third study suggests that improving the curbside appeal of affordable housing may reduce affordable housing stigma. For researchers, the findings of the third study help frame affordable housing stigma and its complex relationships. By decreasing the stigma associated with affordable housing, higher-opportunity neighborhoods might be more likely to support affordable housing in their neighborhoods, which could help reduce segregation and concentrated poverty.
Download or read book Holistic Flex Housing written by Keever Parrish (William, Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
