Архитектура

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6 House De
14 PIXEL in Beijing Modelroom
28 Kona Residence
40 Villa No.12
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310 Casa Kiball
322 Showroo in Yuanxiong
332 Residence of Duan

Topotek 1 is one of Germany’s internationally best-known landscape architecture firms.

Rosemarie Trockel is currently one of Germany’s most important artists; she has made a name for herself through highly unconventional works that have often been exhibited in New York, Chicago, at documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere.

The new and extremely playful park in Munich is the result of a collaboration between them. It covers a three-hundred-meter section of railroad tracks and creates urgently needed open space for the neighborhood of Theresienhöhe. In addition to the design, technically demanding questions like the approach to statics, acoustics, and traffic safety also needed to be solved.

This has been achieved with an intricate costly and elaborate mix of gravel, pine trees, plastic, artificial turf, styrofoam, and concrete, which creates varied textures for the site. This monograph examines the new park design in a number of essays and documents the design and production process.

This book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect form, and that living space is a base for our increasingly complex and varied societies. This new survey into multi-family housing focuses on the responses proposed by architects who are dealing with the dynamic and diverse demands of contemporary society. Featuring works by Lacaton-Vassal, BIG, + JDS, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Ryue Nishizawa, FOA, SHoP, and many emerging new architects, this volume is not a simple catalog, but rather a studied collection of inventive projects.

With nearly 500 detailed illustrations, plans and photographs, this is the definitive professional, international resource for workplace design. From Selgas Cano’s semi-subterranean, tubular office in a forest near Madrid, to the ‘living skin’ of Harmonia 57 in São Paolo, this book brims with creative and intelligent ideas that every workplace designer needs to know.

Architects and interior designers face unprecedented challenges when designing contemporary workplaces. Employers still want offices that will inspire staff and impress clients, but the brief must now allow for environmental requirements, constraints on resources and changes in how and when we work.

The book is organized into separate sections featuring small, medium and large projects, each one fully illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans. Details of the design team, budget and specification for each project appear in an extensive listings section.

• Kupla - the Bubble in Helsinki, Finland (HUT Wood Studio/ Ville Hara)
• Writing with Light House in New York, USA (Steven Holl Architects)
• Y-Cabin in Eastern Japan (Kengo Kuma & Associates)
• Huski Hotel in Falls Creek, Australia (Elenberg Fraser)
• BR House in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Marcio Kogan with Bruno Gomes)

Timber as a traditional building material provides exciting possibilities in architectural design that have long been recognised and employed. Quite apart from the aesthetic value of the different kinds of wood, one of the most important advantages is its sustainability which make it part of energy-efficient architecture. To Touch Wood presents more than 60 outstanding examples of the latest architectural designs from all over the world for which wood has been used extensively. Richly illustrated this title shows the innovative ways timber is currently being handled and how its use has been expanded by new technologies and experiments with traditional building methods.

This book explores the theories, practices and principles of new approaches to solar architecture that foster both design excellence and low-energy use. In response to the challenges of global warming and climate change, design and technology enable architects to achieve greater performance standards while at the same time developing an environmental aesthetic.

The book showcases ten award-winning buildings to illustrate the aesthetic and technological design integration of solar response in contemporary zero-energy and low-energy architecture. For each project there is a detailed examination of the local climate, the design and construction, and the technology used to reduce energy use.

Towards Zero-energy Architecture is a much-needed call for the design professions to redefine architecture to help solve ecological problems.

Simultaneously defining and being defined by its surroundings, the town house is one of the most fascinating and innovative housing possibilities of today. The book offers a selection of recent projects that outstand in their creative interpretation of the contemporary urban home.

The town house (a house with a party wall) is one of the most interesting and innovative urban phenomena in the current architectural panorama, whose origins lead back to palaces and the mansions of wealthy families who fled their feudal conflicts and preferred the tranquility of the cities. These days, the town house is without doubt becoming a typology on the rise in the constant search for unique living spaces. In urban areas, it is the perfect solution to fill the niches, corners and tiny sites that are quite common in the city grid.

460 colored illustrations

From the Contents:

• Mandeville Place in Philadelphia, USA (Richard Meier & Partners Architects)
• Housing in Durango, Spain (Dominique Perrault Architecte)
• River Terraces in Melbourne, Australia (Jackson Clements Burrows Architects)
• Tetris Apartments in Ljubljana, Slovenia (OFIS arhitekti)
• Didden Village in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (MVRDV)

Inner cities are experiencing a newed boom, the demand for 21st century living spaces in today’s renaissance of urban centralization is on the rise. So for the past few years, many architects have been rediscovering and creatively reinterpreting the aestetic and functional potentials of townhouses. The modern buildings achieve the same functions on the scant inner city plot as their historic archetypes, but distinguish themselves using a contemporary architectural language. Some of the most spectacular projects reach considerable heights and extend the traditional concept of the townhouse to new dimensions.

Ce premier volume permet d’acquérir progressivement toutes les bases nécessaires au traçage, dont la maîtrise est indispensable à la réalisation d’ouvrages en bois. Chaque étude est traitée de manière très progressive afin de faciliter la compréhension des différentes étapes.

Sommaire :
La géométrie. Le point. La droite. Les parallèles. Les perpendiculaires. Les angles. Les triangles. Le losange. Le rectangle. Le trapèze. Le parallélogramme. La géométrie et la perspective.

Ce second volume constitue la suite logique des méthodes étudiées dans le précédent volume. Il continue d’explorer des tracés de plus en plus complexes.

Sommaire :
Le pentagone. L’hexagone. L’heptagone. L’octogone. L’ennéagone. Le décagone. Le dodécagone. Les polygones divers. Le cercle et arcs de cercles. Les arcs de cercles et les courbes. Les raccordements. Le tracé des moulures.