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The city at night is defined by light. A well-lit urban space can be inviting, giving visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful nighttime lighting design can also give a city its own identity and accentuate certain architectural qualities. At the same time, an overabundance of light sources can result in light pollution and spatial confusion. In Light Zone(...)
Light zone city : light planning in the urban context
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The city at night is defined by light. A well-lit urban space can be inviting, giving visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful nighttime lighting design can also give a city its own identity and accentuate certain architectural qualities. At the same time, an overabundance of light sources can result in light pollution and spatial confusion. In Light Zone City author Christa van Santen uses her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design to articulate basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares. In preparation for this guide to urban lighting design, she visited ten European cities—including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam—with different urban conditions. Light Zone City presents different planning and design tasks systematically and uses each to illustrate specific solutions. Van Santen also explains new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps through numerous examples.
Materials and Lighting
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Exposed concrete is one of the most fascinating and demanding building materials. To work with it calls for technical precision of the highest order, especially where the architecture’s character is determined by the material’s special qualities. Architects such as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Gigon-Guyer, and Diener & Diener have defined the highest(...)
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December 2005, Basel
Exposed concrete : technology and design
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Exposed concrete is one of the most fascinating and demanding building materials. To work with it calls for technical precision of the highest order, especially where the architecture’s character is determined by the material’s special qualities. Architects such as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Gigon-Guyer, and Diener & Diener have defined the highest standard for the use of exposed concrete with their buildings. In its first part, this book presents groundbreaking examples of exposed concrete architecture by ten international architects and analyzes their treatment of the material. In its second part, it describes the key aspects of exposed concrete (surface, color, sheeting, framework, seams, composition, etc.); discusses the concreting process in detail; and gives advice on avoiding defects and writing successful proposals.
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Set in stone
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Set in stone is well-known metaphor to describe something immortal and immov-able. Stone is considered to be an archaic and ultimate building material. In times when sustainability has become the keyword of climate-adapted construction, stone architecture is gaining more and more attention. This volume will provide an updated overview of stone architecture, 60 projects,(...)
Set in stone
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Set in stone is well-known metaphor to describe something immortal and immov-able. Stone is considered to be an archaic and ultimate building material. In times when sustainability has become the keyword of climate-adapted construction, stone architecture is gaining more and more attention. This volume will provide an updated overview of stone architecture, 60 projects, from all around the world: whether cast stone, marble or bricks the reader takes part in a fascinating trip, discovering buildings, which are not dematerialized, not fashionably transparent, but are standing in a millennia old tradition of architecture, which has not lost its enchantment in 21st century.
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Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized(...)
Findings on elasticity
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What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized niches in order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, or bewildering results and assembles them in this interdisciplinary volume. There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution reect the respondent’s own field as well as his or her passion for the topic.
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Luminous wallpaper, curtains that produce electricity, or self-cleaning windowpanes, more than ever before innovations in surface technologies are influencing and will continue to revolutionize the use of materials in architecture, interior design, and design. The new smart surfaces expand considerably design possibilities for architects and designers. Their use leads to(...)
Smart surfaces, and their application in architecture and design
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Luminous wallpaper, curtains that produce electricity, or self-cleaning windowpanes, more than ever before innovations in surface technologies are influencing and will continue to revolutionize the use of materials in architecture, interior design, and design. The new smart surfaces expand considerably design possibilities for architects and designers. Their use leads to new typologies and concepts that can also do justice to changes in expectations for buildings and design.Smart Surfaces brings these design fields into the creative focus of planners and designers, and emphasizes concrete possibilities for applications. Planning fundamentals, including cost-benefit analyses, and questions related to building, including details of constructions, are presented in a clear and intelligible way.
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En Provence, on nomme « calade » la technique traditionnelle où la pierre brute locale est posée debout, sur chant. Certains villages conservent encore leurs aires de battages et leurs ruelles caladées, tandis que dans les villes, les hôtels particuliers et les cours privées déploient leur richesse en de précieux tapis de pierres. En Italie, les ciottolati, mélange de(...)
Calades : les sols de pierre en provence
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En Provence, on nomme « calade » la technique traditionnelle où la pierre brute locale est posée debout, sur chant. Certains villages conservent encore leurs aires de battages et leurs ruelles caladées, tandis que dans les villes, les hôtels particuliers et les cours privées déploient leur richesse en de précieux tapis de pierres. En Italie, les ciottolati, mélange de galets noirs et blancs, recouvrent le parvis des églises tout comme en Grèce où ils prennent le nom de chochlakia. Depuis quelques années, de nombreuses créations publiques ou privées remettent à l’honneur ce savoir-faire que ce livre aborde sous deux angles complémentaires : une découverte typologique et historique des plus belles calades méditerranéennes ainsi que les règles de base pour réaliser soi-même un sol de pierre. Des dessins techniques et des photos illustrent avec précision chacun des gestes du caladeur.
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Pierre sèche
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Des sites, sélectionnés dans le monde entier (France, Grèce, Grande- Bretagne, Espagne, Allemagne, Suède, Cap-Vert etc.) permettent d’appréhender divers types d’aménagements élaborés au fil des siècles et de comprendre comment les techniques s’adaptent aux paysages. L’accent est mis sur les murs à travers plusieurs exemples de construction détaillés étape par étape. En(...)
Materials and Lighting
April 2008, Manosque
Pierre sèche
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Des sites, sélectionnés dans le monde entier (France, Grèce, Grande- Bretagne, Espagne, Allemagne, Suède, Cap-Vert etc.) permettent d’appréhender divers types d’aménagements élaborés au fil des siècles et de comprendre comment les techniques s’adaptent aux paysages. L’accent est mis sur les murs à travers plusieurs exemples de construction détaillés étape par étape. En complément de cette approche pratique, des spécialistes de la pierre sèche apportent leurs connaissances et leurs expériences dans un langage accessible.
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Architectural photographer Jussi Tiainen has skilfully captured in his photographs the versatile nature of concrete, its smoothness and coarseness, strength and sensitivity, hardness and softness, and light and shadow. For this book he has photographed the best of Finnish concrete architecture from recent years – 16 different buildings, ranging from public buildings to a(...)
Concrete architecture in Finland
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Architectural photographer Jussi Tiainen has skilfully captured in his photographs the versatile nature of concrete, its smoothness and coarseness, strength and sensitivity, hardness and softness, and light and shadow. For this book he has photographed the best of Finnish concrete architecture from recent years – 16 different buildings, ranging from public buildings to a single-family house, and from new buildings to remodelling projects. Among the architects’ offices included are JKMM Architects, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, and Heikkinen & Komonen Architects. The article at the beginning of the book by architect Maritta Koivisto, edtior-in-chief of the Finnish journal Betoni [Concrete], opens an interesting angle on the uses of concrete in building and architecture.
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60 concrete examples: from Durrer Linggi, OMA, Hueseyin Buetuener and Hilmi Guener, over meck architekten, Kohlbecker Architekten & Ingenieure, Mashe Safdie and Associates, to Steven Holl Architects, Souto Moura, , Rafael Vinoly and C+S ASSOCIATI, in drawings, descriptions and extensive color documentation. Index including all studio addresses.
Concrete creations: contemporary buildings and interiors
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60 concrete examples: from Durrer Linggi, OMA, Hueseyin Buetuener and Hilmi Guener, over meck architekten, Kohlbecker Architekten & Ingenieure, Mashe Safdie and Associates, to Steven Holl Architects, Souto Moura, , Rafael Vinoly and C+S ASSOCIATI, in drawings, descriptions and extensive color documentation. Index including all studio addresses.
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December 2008, Berlin
Materials and Lighting
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Cette nouvelle collection s’attache à penser la condition des matériaux intervenant dans l’édification des édifices non sur le plan technique de la mis en œuvre tel un traité technique mais sur le plan de leur représentation dans les mentalités, sur celui de la matérialité de leur apparence, du touché de leur texture. Le premier volume est consacré au béton histoire de se(...)
February 2009, Villette
L'esprit des matériaux architecture et philosophie
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Cette nouvelle collection s’attache à penser la condition des matériaux intervenant dans l’édification des édifices non sur le plan technique de la mis en œuvre tel un traité technique mais sur le plan de leur représentation dans les mentalités, sur celui de la matérialité de leur apparence, du touché de leur texture. Le premier volume est consacré au béton histoire de se départir du caractère gris et dépréciatif qui lui est accolé, celui de matériau pollueur, envahisseur, terne...