This edited volume covers theoretical and practical aspects of circular economy in building development, offering chapters dealing with topics such as material design, affordability of housing development, waste management and recycling, smart metering, and more.
Extrait : "L'architecture n'est point ignorée des animaux: le trou du ver, les galeries de la fourmi, la ruche de l'abeille, le nid de l'épinoche ou de l'oiseau, la tanière du loup, le terrier du renard et du lapin, le village du castor, la hutte du gorille, la maison, le donjon, le temple et le palais répondent au même besoin diversifié à l'infini.
Autonomous manufacturing and cyber-physical systems are key enabling technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4) which are currently being incorporated into the building design and construction industries.
Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes.
Global climate change calls for rapid and decisive measures, particularly from the world’s metropolises—the future of our climate will be decided in cities!
Reflexive Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory and in practice, to the emergence and interpretation of design and research in architecture.
Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000.
In addition to senior scientists, who have summarised their main results in the five volumes of the Future Megacities Book Series, ambitious young researchers have also contributed substantially to the German research programme on sustainable development of future megacities.
Through speeches, articles and interviews, this book highlights some of the more significant considerations that have run parallel with Vassilis Sgoutas' own steps in architecture.
The volume documents the first state of an international project that addresses and presents women as personalities between professional and family responsibilities.
Buildings and spaces are like instruments: architectural volumes and their materials, surfaces and structures generate a resonance and therefore have a sensorial impact on people.
Der Bau von Hochhäusern ist oft von emotionalen Diskussionen begleitet: Der Gebäudetyp wird einerseits als Lösung für die aktuellen Herausforderungen an die Städte gesehen, anderseits als ästhetische Unmöglichkeit oder Ausdruck einer unerwünschten Gentrifizierung.
Based on the example of the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg, this book presents a strategic approach to the energy conversion of a district, which aims to be almost exclusively supplied by renewable and locally generated energy by 2050.
As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.
While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development.
The return of the housing issue, stemming from the problems of housing costs, immigration, and segregation, has met with great resonance among the wider public.
Seit mehr als 40 Jahren befasst sich der Architekt und Stadtplaner Jan Gehl damit, Plätze, Straßen, ja ganze Stadtviertel zum Wohle der Bewohner neu oder umzugestalten.
The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources with care and avoid unnecessary emissions.
The significance of bottom-up approaches initiated by civil society as well as the importance of the local level as the level for implementation is often overlooked when dealing with megacity developments.
Dieses Buch stellt am Beispiel des Hamburger Stadtteils Wilhelmsburg einen strategischen Ansatz zum energetischen Quartiersumbau mit dem Ziel einer fast hundertprozentigen Versorgung durch erneuerbare und lokal erzeugte Energie bis zum Jahr 2050 vor.
Seit mehr als 40 Jahren befasst sich der Architekt und Stadtplaner Jan Gehl damit, Plätze, Straßen, ja ganze Stadtviertel zum Wohle der Bewohner neu oder umzugestalten.
As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.
Von der Gartenstadt bis zum Mythos Megacity: MULTIPLE CITY reflektiert aktuelle urbane Entwicklungen im Spiegel zentraler Stadtkonzepte der letzten 100 Jahre und untersucht, wie sich multiple Erscheinungsformen, parallele Strategien und gegenläufige Entwicklungen ins Gesicht der Stadt eingeschrieben haben.
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes.
Global climate change calls for rapid and decisive measures, particularly from the world's metropolises-the future of our climate will be decided in cities!
