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Small Houses
Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness, minimalism. Opening with a detailed exploration of the social and historical background behind compact housing in the twentieth century, this book goes on to feature 37 illustrated case studies that represent some of the best examples of small houses built worldwide within the past decade. Plan areas range from 7 to 150 square metres (75 to 1615 square feet) and each project embodies a particular design approach towards compact accommodation. The case studies are organized into three chapters - Rural Retreats; Urban and Suburban Bases; and Small Clusters and Multiples - and include work by such architects as Toyo Ito, Lacaton & Vassal, LOT/EK and Kazuyo Sejima.
A Matter of Art
Architectes genevois: Andrea Bassi (Villa Tournier, Collonge-Bellerive), et Patrick Devanthéry et Inès Lamunière (Bibliothèque Edouard Fleuret, Dorigny).
Building in Existing Fabric
a disused power station is converted into a cultural centre, an old barn is made into a residential house. All around us we encounter buildings whose original purpose has rendered them obsolete, and which now offer space for new uses. The construction and building requirements confronting the architect are as varied and individual as the buildings themselves. This publication examines a wide range of realized examples, highlighting successful and innovative solutions, from the rehabilitation of preserved monuments to the renovation or renewal of existing buildings, from the reuse of a gothic monastery or the former industrial buildings of Fiat Lingotto to the renovation of structures made of pre-cast concrete panels. Introductory essays by specialist authors examine the economical, technical, historical aspects of the topic, and the projects presented are documented fully with illustrations, plans and details which have been specially produced by the editorial department of DETAIL.
Groundwater Overexploitation in the North China Plain: A Path to Sustainability
Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distribu...
Buildings
For each new assignment, the Chur architects Dieter Jüngling and Andreas Hagmann explore the multi-faceted qualities and moods of the site and the specific aspects of the task itself. They develop this raw material into new and autonomous architectural statements.
Cooperation
A new inquiry on cooperation
Support and Resist
As architectural projects have grown larger and more complex, as materials have become more specialized and advanced, as the world's cities have developed in size and density, the collaborative partnership of architects and structural engineers has gained prominence. Many of the major works of the early twenty-first century would have been difficult to build or even conceive without the contributions of firms like Ove Arup & Partners, Buro Happold, and Mutsuro Sasaki & Partners, to name just a few. Support and Resist is the first book to focus on the revolution in engineering culture in which structure shares the stage with design.In profiles of fourteen American and international engineers and more than thirty case studies, Nina Rappaport details facets of this revolution: collaboration, intuition, structural integration, hybrid structures, structure as decoration, computer workflow, and fabrication technologies.
Bauen im Bestand
Ein ehemaliges Kraftwerk wird zur Kunstmeile, der alte Heustadel zum Wohnhaus. Überall begegnen uns Gebäude, die in ihrem ursprünglichen Zustand nicht mehr gebraucht werden und nun Raum bieten für neue Nutzungen. So unterschiedlich wie die einzelnen Bauten sind die konstruktiven und bautechnischen Anforderungen, mit denen sich der Architekt auseinandersetzen muss. Ob energiegerechte Erneuerung oder progressiver Umbau - Im Detail: Bauen im Bestand stellt internationale, innovative Lösungen vor. Einführende Essays von Fachautoren befassen sich umfassend mit den denkmalpflegerischen, ökonomischen und technisch-konstruktiven Aspekten der Thematik. Vom räumlichen Zusammenhang bis zum großmaßstäblichen Detail sind alle Zeichnungen mit der Kompetenz und Erfahrung der Redaktion DETAIL gezielt recherchiert und in bewährter Form vorgestellt. Beispiele für gelungene Umnutzungen von Fabrikgebäuden zeigt das Buch: TransEuropeHalles (Hrsg.) The Factories Conversions for Urban Culture ISBN 3-7643-6635-4
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