Architectural structure and design

Dieses Buch liefert wichtige Erkenntnisse für die Werterhaltung von Immobilien und deren nachhaltige Nutzung.

This book systematically discusses state-of-the-art dew-point evaporative cooling and provides key insights into current research efforts and future research interests.

Throughout history, nature has served as an inspiration for architecture and designers have tried to incorporate the harmonies and patterns of nature into architectural form.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities 2023 (SIIOC 2023).

This illustrated book gives a comprehensive view of _ contemporary ideas, innovations and emerging attitudes to sustainability that emanated from the MIT symposium.

Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such devices has become a significant cause for concern.

The Heat Pump Planning Handbook contains practical information and guidance on the design, planning and selection of heat pump systems, allowing engineers, designers, architects and construction specialists to compare a number of different systems and options.

This book introduces the reader to contemporary issues in the management of facilities in the African context and includes case studies from across the continent and internationally.

This book examines how discarded marble heaps can be repurposed, in situ, to breathe new life into the landscape, offering solutions that are as innovative as they are practical and sustainable.

Entender como se establecen las relaciones simbolicas en y con el paisaje urbano, como se lee la ciudad y se establecen empatias y apatias, que se expresan en geografias semioticas, imaginarios y relatos urbanos simbolicos, es el objetivo de esta investigacion; y para lograrlo, se establecieron tres dimensiones que la ciudad propone, la espacial o topologica, la objetual o plastica y la social; todas ellas simbolicas, se implican y determinan reciprocamente, en un proceso de construccion de identidades sociales de los habitantes con sus espacios, y a partir de estas, con ellos mismos, asi se entiende el espacio como mediador de lazos sociales que consolidan el paisaje y la realidad social urbana.

Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses and woven fabrics.

Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle.

Dedicated to the tracing of continuity across sectarian divides, Christopher Tadgell's History of Architecture in India (1989) was the first modern monograph to draw together in one volume all the strands of India's pre-colonial architectural history - from the Vedic and Native traditions of early India, through Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and secular architecture.

This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence.

Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the place that professional designing takes in this interaction.

This book explores the history and evolution of city centers and provides practical guidance for designing successful city centers, emphasizing the importance of urban design guidelines in achieving this goal.

This book highlights key recent developments in air conditioning technologies for cooling and dehumidification with the specific objectives to improve energy efficiency and to minimize environmental impact.

This book uses blending theory in math cognition, and assesses the main aspect of this theory, called image schema theory.

Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri PetersThis issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; specifying local materials and passive technologies; and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This books covers new aspects of location strategies and site selection through globalization.

A "e;Century of Austrian Design"e; offers a highly accessible overview of Austrian design culture from 1900 to the present against the background of the country's extremely turbulent industrial history.

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions.

Existing structures represent a heterogeneous category in the global built environment as often characterized by the presence of archaic materials, damage and disconnections, uncommon construction techniques and subsequent interventions throughout the building history.

This fully illustrated guide to the planning and design of pre-school facilities for children is supported by a broad range of case studies, drawn from around the world.

The book describes the story of Clarte, Le Corbusier's first apartment building, continuing the narrative into the 21st century.

This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

This book presents the latest scientific and technical advances in the fields of Smart Cities and Smart Territories.

The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architectureFor more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture.

Interior design should not be sterile or static; it's a living extension of art meant to be touched, used, and admired.

Brain, Decision Making, and Mental Health acknowledges that thinking is not a constant phenomenon but varies considerably across cultures.

Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging.

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration.

From the moment it was first published, Facility Management became the ultimate reference for facility and design professionals who want to create a productive workplace that corresponds to the short- and long-term goals of their corporation.

This book offers a variety of analyses, methodologies, and reflections on the behaviour of vernacular architecture in the face of natural hazards, with an emphasis on the strategies that can be used to cope with them.

With the single European market and the growing internationalisation of the work of architects, engineers and contractors it is important for professionals to be aware of the liability provisions of legal systems around the world.

La memoria es una de las preocupaciones más comunes entre las personas en lo que a funcionamiento del cerebro respecta.

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Materials and Techniques for Sustainable Development (SMTS) 2019.

Up and Running with AutoCAD 2022: 2D and 3D Drawing, Design and Modeling presents a combination of step-by-step instruction, examples and insightful explanations.

This book explores different design approaches to revealing change within a landscape, and examines how landscape designers bring together the cultural context of a specific place with material, spatial and ecological considerations.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Modern Movement houses constructed with steel frames.

The book analyzes housing finance policy in developing countries at a time of unprecedented change in such systems.

This doctoral dissertation presents a model to evaluate trade-offs between the energetic, economic, and environmental lifecycle performance of building projects.