Main entry:

Watts, Andrew, 1957- author.

Title & Author:

Modern environmental design : a project primer for complex forms / Andrew Watts.

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser Verlag, [2022]
©2022

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Student accommodation: environmental patterns of use -- Arthouse cinema: locally-based production and on-site fabrication -- Research and development facility: services-free internal space -- Industrial start-up building: the relationship between support space and activity space -- University science teaching building: zoning in environmental design -- Factory building: envelope as environmental support space and weather barrier -- Residential hotel: mass customisation for environmental design -- University arts building: daylighting and natural ventilation in gallery spaces -- Residential tower: daylight ventilation in mini-towers -- Residential building: changing environmental controls for fixed spatial arrangements -- Rental centre: semi-tempered spaces as environments for public art -- Resort hotel: reducing the energy expended in component replacement -- Manufacturing building: reuse and recycling of mechanical and electrical systems -- Hotel: Assembly sequence and on-site fabrication -- Manufacturing start-up facility: assembly, disassembly and user manual -- Research and development facility: loose-fit construction for environmental design -- University teaching building: environmental design for public space.

Summary:

Wellbeing in a building depends on several factors. This book describes strategies for the architectural and engineering design of buildings. building on the successful Modern Construction Handbook, this volume sets out both innovative and established examples of building design. All projects closely relate inside spaces and external volumes; interlocking them to form buildings which wrap the paces within.--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783035621433 (hardcover edition)
3035621438 (hardcover edition)
9783035621440 (softcover edition)
3035621446 (softcover edition)

Subject:

Interior architecture.
Buildings Environmental engineering.
Architecture Human factors.
Interior Design and Furnishings
Architecture intérieure.
Constructions Technique de l'environnement.
Architecture Facteurs humains.

Added entries:

Newtecnic Ltd. (Firm)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316604
Call No.: 316604
Copy: 1
Status: Available