Sustainability has advanced to become an overarching concern of daily life. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economic and ecological s...Loe edasi...
Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the issues associated with adapting to climate change and building urban resilience. The books editors have...Loe edasi...
Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the...Loe edasi...
Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the...Loe edasi...
A unique and daring collection of homes and the stories of those who have changed their lives by changing their surroundings, from YouTube sensation Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolás Boullosa of kirstendirksen / faircompanies For most people,...Loe edasi...
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? Th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031833168)
The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters. With millions of people forced to flee their homes annually due to conflict, environmental disasters, or persecution, the urgency of this...Loe edasi...
This book examines green transition and circular economy in the fields of building design and Real Estate management. By outlining windows for seizing the opportunity to integrate circular approaches in current building practices, the book provide...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781957183749)
Creating the Regenerative School profiling case studies from around the world that exemplify best practices in creating healthy, climate appropriate learning environments for early learners through high school with designs that are not only beauti...Loe edasi...
Through architectural photography, technical diagrams, and expert prose, this book explores the environmental benefits as well as stylish and innovative uses of mass timber in commercial buildings.Prized for its ability to sequester carbon, m...Loe edasi...
This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change....Loe edasi...
This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780789345103)
Changing lifestyles and economic condictions as well as ecological concerns have fueled a move to smaller, more efficient living spaces. This book includes the most cutting-edge, effective, and appealing breakthroughs in home design and architect...Loe edasi...
Founded by Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi as a design network between Milan, London and Mumbai, OBR explores new modes of contemporary living, developing an architecture that responds sensitively to and stimulates interaction with its environ...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the utilization of wastes produced from plastic usage by industry and consumers, along with the partial to full replacement of conventional cement as a primary binder material in concrete. This book demonstrates how to use pos...Loe edasi...
Sari: Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031467592)
This book examines green transition and circular economy in the fields of building design and Real Estate management. By outlining windows for seizing the opportunity to integrate circular approaches in current building practices, the book provide...Loe edasi...
Sustainability is to become the guiding principle of social action and economic activity. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economi...Loe edasi...
One timber prefab building turns into a litany of conversations, research and essays on responsible yet habitable environmentsThe Proto-Habitat is both a theoretical and practical (built) experiment to explore ways of dwell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: NAI Publishers, ISBN-13: 9789462088023)
Without reservations, DOWN TO EARTH starts from the observation that the climate crisis is a given, and that we are already in over our heads. Can we then still redesign our living environment to ensure a sustainable balance, also with all other lif...Loe edasi...
Conventional building skins are constructed as static structures upon the typical design conditions in terms of external climate and internal occupant activities. This generates dissociation between the envelope structure and its environment. With...Loe edasi...
The Distributed Workplace provides in one volume essential information on sustainable work environments which will be invaluable to those developing workplace strategies for end-user organizations as well as suppliers of office buildings, information...Loe edasi...
Robust architecture is designed to meet needs; its structures are sufficient, resilient and suited to the location. It embraces the potential of simplicity, traditional building methods and alternative way...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031353673)
This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and...Loe edasi...
A spectacular global survey of the new buildings merging architecture and nature to transform our cities for a sustainable future. Concrete horizons, urban sprawl, high-density living: never have our cities and their buildings been in gre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031533884)
This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Smart & Sustainable Infrastructure (ISSSI), held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on September 4–8, 2023, and affiliated with the 77th RILEM Annual Week 202...Loe edasi...
In recent decades, there has been a growing awareness of environmental issues in society as a whole, mainly due to the increasingly serious consequences of climate change and the progressive degradation of the natural environment caused by human acti...Loe edasi...
Recognizing that buildings are a major contributor to global warming and the critical role of embodied versus operational carbon, the book focuses on houses built from materials that either sequester carbon (plants), use materials with very low em...Loe edasi...
Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, partic...Loe edasi...
Sustainability has advanced to become an overarching concern of daily life. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economic and ecological s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031096945)
Conventional building skins are constructed as static structures upon the typical design conditions in terms of external climate and internal occupant activities. This generates dissociation between the envelope structure and its environment. With...Loe edasi...
