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Thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) issues have gained
significant interest in the scientific and technical community
involved in building performance analysis and other related
subjects. In terms of thermal comfort, the achievement and
maintenance of a thermally acceptable indoor environment is
affected by energy costs, and energy poverty is a widespread
problem globally. There is a call for energy-efficient architecture
for a developed and sustainable world. However, with the use of
renewable energy that increased considerably in recent years, new
technical challenges arose for the energy sector. Consumers are key
players in this context, as flexibility in demand is crucial to
cope with the intermittent nature of most renewable energy sources.
Active demand-side participation is particularly important to
ensure the efficient use of locally and globally available energy.
Sustainability, human comfort, and healthy living environments have
become top priorities. Advancements in Sustainable Architecture and
Energy Efficiency explores how housing is a key health factor for
individuals and looks at factors such as air quality, ventilation,
hygrothermal comfort, lighting, physical environment, building
efficiency, and other areas as important pieces in healthy
architecture. It discusses how the poor application of these
parameters can directly affect human health and how sustainable
architecture provides a solution. Beyond just labeling the
important facets of architecture for healthy living, this book will
look at different perspectives of energy consumption and demand to
ensure sustainable energy, increased energy efficiency, improved
energy policies, and reasonable energy costs for homes. This book
is ideal for architects, designers, engineers, energy engineers,
environmental scientists, practitioners, researchers, academicians,
and students interested in architecture that is both conducive to
healthy living and energy efficiency.
Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition
(English/German) Längs des Schorgasttals im oberfränkischen
Landkreis Kulmbach verläuft die Bundesstraße 289. Auf Höhe der
Ortschaft Untersteinach entstand eine Ortsumfahrung, deren
wesentlicher Bestandteil die 550 Meter lange Schorgasttalbrücke
ist. Die Bauingenieure BPR Dr. Schäpertöns Consult GmbH und SRP
Schneider & Partner gewannen 2010 den Realisierungswettbewerb
in Zusammenarbeit mit SBR Schultz-Brauns & Reinhart
Architekten. Sie wählten für den die Schorgastaue im weiten Bogen
querenden Streckenverlauf eine mehrfeldrige Schrägseilbrücke. Die
Jury lobte das baulich und optisch bestechende Bauwerk schon bei
der Preisverleihung wegen seines selbstbewussten Auftritts, seiner
Harmonie, Transparenz und Signifikanz. Baulich wie optisch besticht
das 2020 dem Verkehr übergebene Brückenbauwerk durch sechs an der
Kurveninnenseite angeordnete und radial nach innen geneigte Pylone.
Es stellt einen überzeugenden Beitrag zur Baukultur dar.
The completion of David Chipperfield's distinctive new building for
Kunsthaus Zurich in December 2020 has nearly doubled the museum's
overall space. In combination with the preceding refurbishments of
the earlier buildings, this has made it fit to meet the demands of
an art museum in the 21st century. A sequel to The Architectural
History of the Kunsthaus Zurich 1910-2020, this book
comprehensively introduces the new Kunsthaus Zurich, demonstrating
how the task of building an art museum in the 21st century can be
fulfilled. Concise texts, statements by protagonists and by future
users and visitors as well as numerous illustrations trace the
project's evolution and the construction process and look at the
completed building from various perspectives. The book also
highlights what features contemporary museum infrastructure has to
offer and the architectural and urban design qualities it requires,
and what financial and organisational challenges the entire
undertaking implied. A conversation between experts exploring the
expanded museum's impact on its immediate neighbourhood and
Zurich's urban fabric as a whole rounds out the volume. Text in
French.
James D. Dilts has written the first comprehensive study of the
broad range of structures built in North America for the railroads
during their heyday, from high-rise office buildings to beautiful
resort hotels to lowly roundhouses and shops. Dilts delves into the
personalities of the people who conceived these structures and
examines the creative uses that have been found for many of them
today. The railroads popularized such vogues in architecture as the
Italianate style in the United States and the chateau style in
Canada and pioneered the use of new materials (for example, steel)
and methods of construction. Included are more than a hundred of
the finest examples of fourteen different building types. The World
the Trains Made will appeal to railroad and architecture buffs,
preservationists considering the adaptive reuse of historic
structures, and anyone concerned about our transportation
priorities in the age of climate change-particularly with regard to
environmentally friendly railroads.
An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through
jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth.
Conceived as a "palace for prisoners," the Don Jail never lived up
to its promise. Although based on progressive nineteenth-century
penal reform and architectural principles, the institution quickly
deteriorated into a place of infamy where both inmates and staff
were in constant danger of violence and death. Its
mid-twentieth-century replacement, the New Don, soon became equally
tainted. Along with investigating the origins and evolution of
Toronto's infamous jail, The Don presents a kaleidoscope of
memorable characters - inmates, guards, governors, murderous gangs,
meddlesome politicians, harried architects, and even a pair of
star-crossed lovers whose doomed romance unfolded in the shadow of
the gallows. This is the story of the Don's tumultuous descent from
palace to hellhole, its shuttering and lapse into decay, and its
astonishing modern-day metamorphosis. Speaker's Book Award 2021 -
Shortlisted | Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book
2022 - Shortlisted
Dramatic photos and fascinating text explore the rich angular
ornament, towers, graphics, and exaggerated works created by
architects and designers in 1920s to 1940s Los Angeles. Students
and admirers of the Art Deco and Streamline styles will delight in
the remarkable array of public buildings, office towers, theaters,
restaurants, religious structures, apartments, hotels, and
individual homes. Many of the leading architects of the era are
featured, including Claude Beelman; Morgan, Walls & Clements;
A.C. Martin; Walker & Eisen: and John & Donald B.
Parkinson. Celebrating populist, progressive, machine-age Los
Angeles, this wonderful book showcases the two main categories of
Art Deco styles: the zigzag, perpendicular Deco style of the 1920s
and the aerodynamic, cubist style of the Streamline 1930s and early
`40s. Allied to these are the many L.A. works known as PWA and
Classical Moderne, as well as the playful Regency Moderne. With
both exterior and interior views, this is an essential reference
and a stunning tribute to architectural expression in Los Angeles.
Cities are not only places that house buildings; they are also
spaces where cultural and social relations are built and developed.
These properties must be taken into consideration when constructing
and renovating new housing. Different methodologies can be used in
order to create new flexible solutions for mass housing units'
interior spaces with the aim of improving their adaptability by
using a user-centered approach. Re-Coding Homes Through Flexible
Interiors: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an optimal
resource that investigates how interior design models can transform
existing spaces into more flexible and functional housing units
while also increasing the functional value and spatial quality of
living spaces in social housing. The book specifically discusses
how genetic algorithms, a generative design approach, are used to
solve nonlinear design problems. It also provides results that can
be referenced based on actual domain data, which can be used as
references to other architectural and interior design approaches.
Featuring research on topics such as housing design and mass
housing, this book is ideally designed for architects, engineers,
interior designers, furniture designers, construction companies,
architecture firms, practitioners, academicians, students, and
researchers.
Text in German & English. When the stadium for a "Workers
Olympiad" -- one of the most beautiful complexes in Europe, as the
daily press put it -- was opened in 1931 on the occasion of the
10th anniversary of the Republic of Austria on the Prater site in
Vienna, Otto Ernst Schweizer, the architect, was suddenly
catapulted into the ranks of internationally acclaimed architects.
The stadium, which can seat 60,000, was built as an amphitheatre on
the model of its ancient predecessors, in particular the Colosseum
in Rome, which Schweizer had studied intensively; the Viennese
stadium seen as a reinterpretation of the enormous Roman structure
on the basis of the constancy of things that were valid, which was
one of the basic premises of his architecture. Otto Ernst
Schweizer, born in 1890, and thus of the same generation as Le
Corbusier, Hans Scharoun, Erich Mendelsohn and Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe, had attracted attention even as a young architect with some
outstanding competition entries, and was acclaimed for his
planetarium on the periphery of the old town in Nuremberg and for
the stands and the two cafes of the stadium complex there. He had
left municipal service as an Oberbaurat to dedicate himself to
planning and realizing the Milchhof in Nuremberg and also the
stadium in Vienna. For thirty years he worked as one of the great
teachers and researchers in the architecture faculty of the
Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. He built -- after a long break
forced upon him by National Socialist culture policy -- the II.
Kollegiengebaude for Freiburg University. This was his last
building, and once again Schweizer's approach to form and function
was concentrated in it, almost as the quintessence of a rich
creative life. And what remains of the stadium, this most beautiful
complex in Europe, as has been said? The landscape around it has
been wrecked and allowed to fray into randomness and Schweizer's
reflecting lake in front of the arena has been filled in. The arena
itself has been enlarged by almost double its appropriate cubature
and its height increased, so generally it has changed to such an
extent that the original is unrecognisable; hence this book.
Unter dem faschistischen Regime wurde im Sudtiroler Martelltal 1937
das vom Architekten Gio Ponti geplante Hotel Paradiso eroeffnet.
Das heute verlassene, ehemalige Sporthotel, ein langgestreckter,
geschwungener Solitar, der einst die Qualitaten eines Luxushotels
mit denen einer Schutzhutte zu kombinieren vermochte, wurde als
Gesamtkunstwerk geplant. Eine Besonderheit sind Gio Pontis Studien
zum eigenwilligen und bis ins Detail entworfenen Farbkonzept, das
auf vier Grundfarben basierend fur die Wande und Decken der Raume
verwendet wurde. Mangelnde Wartung und Vandalismus haben dem Hotel
seit der Schliessung 1946 arg zugesetzt. Vor dem Hintergrund der
Wurdigung der Anlage als Gesamtwerk und einer sorgfaltigen
Bestandsaufnahme ist es moeglich, den Entwurfsprozess von den
ersten Skizzen bis zur Ausfuhrung zu verfolgen.
When it's time to start planning for a renovation or construction
project, you don't need a book that covers everything from A to Z.
Instead you need a concentrated set of tools and techniques that
will guide you and your team to find the best solutions for your
specific project. That's exactly what library building expert
Schlipf provides in his new book, which will be a key resource for
library directors, administrators, board members, trustees, and
planning professionals. Pinpointing the elements that make library
buildings functional, in this book readers will find a streamlined
organization of the text that enables quick consultation and
facilitates collaboration; concise coverage of the essentials of
the library construction process, including who does what, how
things work, and how to stay out of trouble along the way; advice
on important planning and workflow considerations such as site
selection, schematic design, funding, design development, the
bidding process, construction, and post-construction occupancy;
discussion of the characteristics of successful library
buildings-buildings that are easy to maintain, welcoming to people
with disabilities, have less trouble-prone restrooms, and provide
security for users, staff, and collections; and an overview of bad
ideas in library architecture, with pointed guidance on how to
steer clear of them from the very beginning of your project. This
powerful primer will help everyone involved in a library building
project stay focused on the task at hand.
Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor's
Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor's
residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public
building open for tours and the private residence of the governor
and his family. In this unique book, readers are invited to explore
the entirety of the building, from the attic to the garage and
everything in between. The Mississippi Governor's Mansion: Memories
of the People's Home is the first book of its kind dedicated to
images and stories about the Governor's Mansion. The volume reveals
Governor Phil Bryant's profound respect for the office he holds and
his deep appreciation for the National Historic Landmark in which
he resides. Through his personal, often touching reflections,
Governor Bryant pays tribute to former governors, their families,
and the many public servants who have dedicated their lives to
taking care of this beautiful Greek Revival masterpiece. More than
sixty elegant watercolor paintings by noted Mississippi artist Bill
Wilson accompany the governor's stories. Wilson captures the beauty
and majesty of the home, its furnishings, and the restored historic
grounds. The volume also features a personal foreword by First Lady
Deborah Bryant inviting readers into her home, an artist's
statement by Wilson, and a brief historical essay written by
Mansion curator Megan Bankston.
Middlesbrough is the largest town in north-east England, growing
rapidly in the nineteenth century from a small village to a large
industrial settlement on the River Tees built to ship coal from the
newly arrived railways. New industries such as iron and steel
production and shipbuilding followed and the wealth generated in
Middlesbrough can be seen today in its buildings. From the ancient
parish churches and manor houses, through the Victorian industrial
age, to the modern galleries, this exciting and vibrant town has
much to offer. Among the remarkable buildings and structures in
this book are the imposing Victorian town hall, Binns department
store, the iconic Transporter Bridge and the Newport Bridge, the
Riverside Stadium, MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art)
gallery and many more. Middlesbrough in 50 Buildings explores the
history of this fascinating town through a selection of its most
interesting buildings and structures, from its early pre-industrial
days, its massive development as an industrial settlement and the
changes that have taken place in Middlesbrough in recent years.
This book will appeal to all those who live in Middlesbrough or
have an interest in the town.
The foodservice industry gets more competitive every day. As a result, initial planning is extremely important and has become a key factor in determining the success or failure of an operation. This fully updated edition of the best-selling text on foodservice facilities planning shows students how to create a facility that blends the most efficient work environment with an ambience that will attract more customers. Students will find all-new information on how to— - cost-effectively design an operation
- properly select and efficiently maintain equipment
- successfully plan and accurately evaluate foodservice layouts
- plan fast-food facilities and bakeshops
- cut costs through more efficient energy planning.
Equipped with this comprehensive book, students will develop expertise in all aspects of foodservice facilities planning, from prospectus to finished facility. The author provides sample layouts of award-winning floor plans from which effective designs can be modeled. Students will also find practical exercises that help prepare them for common problems that may arise while planning their own operation. They will also learn how to organize data to begin planning, how to develop feasibility studies, how to fully equip and operate their own facility, and most important, how to make their facility achieve maximum productivity and profits. Whether you are a student just learning the business, a foodservice planner, consultant, or decision maker in the industry, this practical reference book can make you an indispensable member of the foodservice facility planning team. An ideal classroom tool for students interested in careers in the foodservice industry, Foodservice Facilities Planning can also offer firm guidance to veteran foodservice planners, consultants, and decision makers.
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series
demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of
publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect
in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the
Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series
show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the
Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and
domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel,
migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the
growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on
the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of
peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean
Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these
architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as
well as the travelogues and naturalists' sketches of the area in
prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars
and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open
Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
under the Humanities Open Books program.
This book documents the creation of the Taiyuan Museum of Art: a
geometric visual feast that seeks to redefine the structure of
museums, galleries, and other public spaces. The architects behind
this phenomenal project have described it as a building which
"produces the impression of a unified sequence of spaces while at
the same time giving visitors the freedom either to follow a path
that is clearly defined by the architecture or to skip from one
gallery to another in a non-linear fashion". This book embraces the
ideas that generated the project through interviews with graduate
students at the Knowlton School of Architecture, interviews with
contemporary critics, and critical commentary from architects,
designers, and colleagues of the architect. The design process is
described in detail through drawings, diagrams and study models.
Many books have been written about the University of Chicago over
its 120-year history, but most of them focus on the intellectual
environment, favoring its great thinkers and their many
breakthroughs. Yet for the students and scholars who live and work
here, the physical university - its stately buildings and beautiful
grounds - forms an important part of its character. "Building
Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago"
explores the environment that has supported more than a century of
exceptional thinkers. This photographic guide traces the evolution
of campus architecture from the university's founding in 1890 to
its plans for the twenty-first century. When William Rainey Harper,
the university's first president, and the trustees decided to build
a set of Gothic quadrangles, they created a visual link to European
precursors and made a bold statement about the future of higher
education in the United States. Since then the university has
regularly commissioned forward-thinking architects to design
buildings that expand - or explode - traditional ideals while
redefining the contemporary campus. Full of panoramic photographs
and exquisite details, "Building Ideas" features the work of
architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb, Holabird
& Roche, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter
Netsch, Ricardo Legorreta, Rafael Vinoly, Cesar Pelli, Helmut Jahn,
and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The guide also includes
guest commentaries by prominent architects and other notable public
figures. It is the perfect collection for Chicago alumni and
students, Hyde Park residents and visitors, and anyone inspired by
the institutional ideas and aspirations of architecture.
Text in English & German. Since the 1950s Stefan Polonyi has
realised a large number of buildings of all kinds from his Cologne
office, working with famous architects all over the world. In his
view, load-bearing structure, form and function have to form an
indissoluble entity, and thus create an aesthetic appearance:
beauty feeds on structural consistency. Very few civil engineers
have made claims of this kind. Architects who have worked with
Polonyi see this ambitious claim as something that has enriched
their own design process. First of all Polonyi, working with Josef
Lehmbrock and Fritz Schaller, developed bold folded structures and
shells for church buildings, and this at a time before statical
calculations were not done by computer, but a lot of things still
had to be tried out in model form. Polonyi co-operated closely with
Oswald Mathias Ungers on the Galleria for the Frankfurter Messe,
among other projects. He made the flying roof for Axel Schultes'
Kunstmuseum Bonn possible, supported by a row of irregularly placed
columns, and also the undulating metal ceiling in the auditorium of
Rem Koolhaas' Nederlands Dans Theater and the umbrella-like roofing
for the approach tracks in Cologne's main station. Polonyi's
bridges, built from the 1990s in the Ruhr District, have become
landmarks in the meantime with their red curved tubes as a
structural and aesthetic element. Today he creates his bridges as
buildings over the river, so-called Living Bridges. Polonyi's wide
range of professional experience had a considerable bearing on his
teaching at Berlin and Dortmund Technical Universities. Working
with architects Harald Deilmann and Josef Paul Kleihues, Polonyi
established the "Dortmund Model for the Building Sciences". It
provides joint training for architects and civil engineers in a
single faculty. The present book is appearing to accompany the
exhibition of the same name in the "Dortmunder U". The essays
address specific aspects of Polonyi's work. So Karl-Eugen Kurrer
and Ulrich Pfammatter look at the development of structural
analysis and the resultant distinction drawn between the
professional territories of the civil engineer and the architect.
Patrik Schumacher, partner in Zaha Hadid's practice, represents a
current position in terms of co-operation between the two
disciplines. Katrin Lichtenstein's account of the Dortmund Model
and Atilla OEtes' view of the current study situation consider the
effect on training and teaching. Sonja Hnilica analyses the folding
systems and shells in the church projects, and Polonyi presents his
bridges, including the designs for the Living Bridges.
In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public
Library's early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken,
Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades,
from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through
the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933.
During this time, the library evolved from an elite organisation
ensconced in two rooms on the second floor of a downtown LA
commercial block into one of the largest public library systems in
the United States-with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's
building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centrepiece. Goodhue
developed a new style, fully integrating the building's sculptural
and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a
complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie
and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic
monument that, combined with the library's murals, embodies an
overarching theme: the light of learning. "A building should read
like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon," wrote
Alexander-a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to
understanding Goodhue's architectural gem.
Text in English and German. Spanish museum architecture has
experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small
towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire extraordinary museum
buildings. This is expressed most visibly without a shadow of a
doubt in Frank O Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But there are
not just the international stars who have contributed to this
success. Spanish architects in particular have designed unique
museums that have changed the look of whole towns. One example is
the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon in Leon in
Castille, built by the Madrid architects Mansilla + Tunon. Rafael
Moneo, who recently completed the annexe for the Museo del Prado in
Madrid is still the undisputed leading figure in Spanish
architecture, but in the meantime architects like Mansilla + Tunon,
who trained under Moneo, are attracting attention internationally
as well as in Spain, and so are young talents who have just left
architecture school and are successfully designing museums. Spanish
architects use a wide variety of formal languages. And yet there
are some characteristics that apply to them all: they have never
been interested in the games Postmodernism plays; many of them
value reinterpreting regional building traditions in a modern way;
they are also sensitive to special features of the existing
topography. Kenneth Frampton said in this context that Spanish
architecture essentially runs counter to the globalisation
tendencies that are increasingly reducing architectural form to a
comfortable aesthetic product. The present book, which is also
suitable as a museum guide, shows that this tendency is
particularly conspicuous in the new museums. It confirms the
world-class nature of Spanish architecture, recorded from Rafael
Moneo's early Museo de Arte Romano in Merida to Herzog and de
Meuron's new Calixa Forum art gallery in Madrid.
The book goes beyond the assembly line to examine the physical
environment of the industrial landscape. What machines are used to
make cars and computer chips? Who are the people who make the
products? When did robots replace humans on the assembly line? Why
are factories configured the way they are? The Factory: A Social
History of Work and Technology answers these questions and more,
offering readers a behind-the-scenes look into the wonders of mass
production. The book traces the history of the factory from the
first small cottage workshop through the Industrial Revolution to
the large, clean room it is today. It also examines the people
behind the machines and how their roles have been defined by the
design of factory buildings. Lastly, it illustrates the broader
world of industrialization in relation to the effects it has had on
workers and the consumer society that feeds it. Appeals to readers
interested in world history, industrial tourism, and the robotics
industry Explains the significance of the factory to American
history and culture Tells the story of American factory work
through spaces and objects Details how factory buildings have
evolved over the years
Das Berliner Zimmer ist seit jeher Zumutung und Angebot zugleich:
dunkel, schwer zu beheizen, ohne klar definierte Funktion. Ein
Raum, der zur kreativen Aneignung einladt, der geliebt und gehasst
wird - aber bisher kaum erforscht wurde. Jan Herres leistet in
diesem Buch Pionierarbeit. Er zeigt auf, wie das Berliner Zimmer ab
dem 18. Jahrhundert entstand und warum es bis heute Eingang in den
Berliner Wohnungsbau findet. Die architekturgeschichtliche
Beschreibung wird durch Fallstudien und Bildstrecken zu heutigen
Formen der Nutzung und Moeblierung erganzt. Durch die Erfassung von
Grundrissen, Groessen und Wohnpraktiken liegt mit Das Berliner
Zimmer. Geschichte, Typologie, Nutzungsaneignung die erste
Anthologie des Berliner Zimmers vor, die zugleich ein Pladoyer
dafur ist, Wohnarchitektur nutzungsoffen und wandelbar fur kunftige
Anforderungen zu planen.
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