Architectural structure and design

The primary aim of this reference volume is to provide an accessible and comprehensive review of current methods used to address resource evaluation and environmental as well as climate issues, and in a manner easily understood by decision-makers and the non-economists interested in environmental policy matters.

This Element introduces theories and applications of embodied cognition including embedded, extended, enactive, and ecological approaches.

This book presents selected papers from the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019), with a focus on HVAC techniques for improving indoor environment quality and the energy efficiency of heating and cooling systems.

Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats presents more than 200 achievements in architecture and structural engineering in all the inhabited continents, from prehistory to the present.

This book introduces recent advances in building simulation and outlines its historic development.

This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture.

This book focuses on two key challenges: the negative impact on property value and higher vacancy risk for pop-up shops.

Dieses Werk informiert in übersichtlicher Form über alle steuerlich relevanten Themen im Rahmen der Immobilienwirtschaft.

What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture.

A proven approach for addressing explosive metropolitan growth in an integrated and holistic manner The book provides a basis for the contemplation of the old network paradigm of the megalopolis into the informational meshwork of the mega- or metacity of the future.

This book contains selected papers from the 22nd World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2023) in Kuala Lumpur.

The creation, accumulation, and use of copious amounts of data are driving rapid change across a wide variety of industries and academic disciplines.

This book offers an international overview of how to apply the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to the 20th-century architectural heritage.

Wartehauschen, Kioske, Imbissbuden, Marktstande, Bushaltestellen, Telefonhauschen, Toiletten, Litfasaulen, Ticketschalter, mobile Zelte oder Wohneinheiten, Notunterkunfte, Touristeninformationen - die Liste kleiner, autark funktionierender Bauten lasst sich fast unendlich erweitern.

This book addresses a topic of great relevance today, considering that in developed countries, most of the time is spent indoors; therefore, indoor residential environments have a direct influence on human health.

Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel construction for a variety of building types, including high rises.

As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today's urban areas.

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time?

Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a "e;ferocious"e; architecture-an architecture, aesthetic, or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism.

Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.

This book will be essential reading for anyone involved in the management of blocks of flats, or considering acquiring the management of their block.

Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice.

This book covers the important aspects of greenery in buildings, both in the landscape and within buildings, examining how greenery improves comfort and appeal in sustainable buildings.

Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning.

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice.

A striking new investigation of design strategies, ideas and critical thinking in interior architecture.

What turns a building into an icon?

Integrate key information to facilitate optimal design solutionsEssential for any working architect, Architectural Design Portable Handbook guides you through projects every step of the way, summarizing, synthesizing, and systematizing the core tasks of design.

Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.

';Inside Texas: Culture, Identity and Houses, 18781920' is a 464 page book with 296 photos that tests and rejects the notion that Texas homes, like all things Texan, were unique and different.

Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

The disastrous effects of floods in urban areas of various Indian cities have been increasing in severity and extent over the past decade.

Unite the science of sound and the principles of design to enhance any space Architectural Acoustics Illustrated translates the quantitative and qualitative content of acoustics into the graphic language of architecture.

This book evaluates the impact of climate conditions on adaptive strategies, diagnoses prosumers' energy patterns in Positive Energy Buildings, and assesses the social and global dimensions of energy poverty.

A new paradigm in facility managementA unique, just-in-time resource from profession leader Eric Teicholz, Facility Design and Management Handbook empowers you to make your facility state of the art.

An "e;anatomical"e; study of building systems integration with guidelines for practical applications Through a systems approach to buildings, Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture details the practice of integration to bridge the gap between the design intentions and technical demands of building projects.

Dieses Buch schafft zum ersten Mal Transparenz und Verständnis zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung in der deutschen Immobilienbranche.

This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation.

*Winner of the 2021 TAA Textbook Excellence Award*Honorable Mention of the 2021 BTES Book AwardStructures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking is a new type of structures textbook for architects who prefer to learn using the hands-on, creative problem-solving techniques typically found in a design studio.

Studying high complexity projects implementation is the object of this book.

The sixth edition of Urban Land Economics full update to the popular and well-established text examining economics as applied to property.

"e;Resilience vs Pandemics: Innovations in Public Places and Buildings"e; explores innovative solutions for architecture and public places during and after the pandemic.

Ein traditionelles Baumaterial der warmen Klimazonen Asiens und Lateinamerikas, erfreut sich Bambus eines wachsenden Interesses unter Architekten der nordlichen Hemisphare: Bambus hat nicht nur ein geringes Gewicht bei groer Stabilitat und ist ausgesprochen elastisch, sondern zeichnet sich auch durch Eigenschaften aus, die in Zeiten schwindender Ressourcen besonders gefragt sind: das Material ist reichlich verfugbar und zudem erneuerbar.