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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s Performance + Assembly:
The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly
spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world’s
largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology theatres to
expressive and functional auditoriums. The book of global cultural
work includes building designs from Chicago to Istanbul, Astana to
Dubai and features both photography of built spaces and unbuilt
ideas. In this book Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture reviews
projects to answer questions that relate to how buildings can be
used to enhance the experiences of the users beyond set
programmatic requirements by asking questions like: How can
architecture and design help advance the technologies, the
operations, the program, and the way buildings perform? At a more
sensorial and experiential level, the book explores how
architecture can speak to the soul to create a place in between the
art and the audience.
In the book Al Wasl Plaza: Dubai Expo 2020 the architects, Adrian
Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture highlight the inspiration and
innovation of the design of Al Wasl Plaza. The book explores each
aspect of the project including the garden, the trellis, three
office buildings, and two hotel buildings, all of which serve to
define the centre of Expo 2020. The book is essentially divided
into three phases of design. The first phase focuses on the
inspiration and conception of the project. Architectural studies,
sketches, and models show the process that led to the final iconic
form. The second phase introduces each of the parcels including the
garden, trellis, offices, hotels, the Leadership Pavilion, and the
Arrivals Plaza. Each chapter illustrates the design process,
architectural details, and the development of the technical
systems. The third and final phase summarises the construction
process, sustainability achievements, and looks to the future to
reveal the District 2020 legacy master plan concept by AS+GG.
RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the
culmination of a seven-year study analysing nine building
typologies to understand the relationships between building
densities and the amount of land and infrastructure required to
support them. The book investigates how much embodied and consumed
carbon is used in each typology and how it affects density and open
space from the viewpoint of sustainability, carbon emissions, and
carbon sequestration. The study determines which building typology
is the most sustainable on a comparative basis. Nine prototypical
buildings were designed - Megatall, Supertall, High-Rise, Mid-Rise,
Low-rise, Courtyard, Three-Flat, Urban Single-Family, and Suburban
Single-Family - set within nine prototypical communities. The study
designates an archetypal residential community of 2,000 units with
an average unit size of 150 sm as a reasonable and representative
cross section of different housing typologies.
Facades: Beauty. Utility. Performance illustrates the depth and
breadth of the many innovative exterior wall facades that were
designed from 2007-2020 at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
(AS+GG). The featured projects, both built and unbuilt, are
explored through photographs, renderings, model images, detail
drawings, narratives, and illustrations. Each project addresses a
series of environmental concerns, offering site-specific,
performative solutions and innovative techniques that harvest
resources and maximise efficiencies.
Drawing from the unique design experience at Adrian Smith + Gordon
Gill Architecture (AS+GG) as architects of the next world's tallest
tower and several others under construction, Supertall | Megatall:
How High Can We Go? highlights the design, sustainability,
innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines
supertall and megatall towers. The book is a mixture of under
construction and design-only projects divided into several chapters
that are organized according to their special characteristics:
Innovative Systems, Harnessing Energies, Designing an Icon,
Extending Ecologies, and Achieving Megatall. Each project,
completed between 2007-2020 at AS+GG, is discovered through
context, program, form, research and development, and performance,
highlighting the stories, challenges, and lessons learned.
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's, 2006-2021 monograph
showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years
of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography,
photography of built work, competition entries, exhibition
materials, master plans, interiors, and special research projects
and publications. The projects featured in the monograph cover a
wide variety of AS+GG's high-performance, energy-efficient,
aesthetically striking architecture on an international scale in a
wide range of typologies and scales, from low- and mid-rise
residential, commercial, and cultural buildings to mixed-use
supertall towers. Projects explored include supertall towers,
large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition
facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public
spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects,
and high-tech laboratory facilities.
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