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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.

Ce livre termine l’étude des principaux assemblages utilisées en menuiserie et en ébénisterie. Il présente différentes réalisations nécessitant un traçage précis.

Sommaire :
Les assemblages : épaississement, élargissement, aboutage, entailles à vif, entailles à mi-bois, moises, enfourchements, rencontre à chant, contrecollage (lamelle), tenons et mortaises, tenons et mortaises avec profil. Les réalisations : l’établi, le guillaume, la table ronde, le coffre, le chevalet, les persiennes, la vitrine.

Ce livre didactique et progressif enseigne les tracés de base nécessaires à la coupe des pierres de taille utilisées dans la construction ou la restauration d’un bâtiment.  

La taille des pierres et leur tracé sont basés sur l’art du trait, une branche de la géométrie descriptive qui permet de dessiner sur plan toutes sortes de volumes au moyen de projections, puis de tracer la pierre pour la tailler. C’est ce dessin technique appliqué à coupe des pierres que le livre de Guy Jouberton se propose d’enseigner au lecteur. Partant de tracés très simples, des exercices progressifs développées avec clarté permettent de faciliter la compréhension des différentes étapes du traçage.
Une pédagogie moderne est au service du débutant pour comprendre et utiliser l’art du trait.

Ce livre est le premier volume d’une suite d’ouvrages dont le second, Tracés et coupe des pierres, études des formes, est déjà paru.
Sur le même sujet, les éditions Vial ont également publié le Traité de Stéréotomie de Monduit, plus ardu mais orné de magnifiques planches de tracés.

Sommaire :
Les constructions géométriques : divisions, perpendiculaires, parallèles, angles, raccordements, tangentes.
Les polygones réguliers.
Les courbes de base : ellipses, paraboles, hyperboles, nombre d’or, raccordement des cercles.
Les moulures : moulures simples, doucines, tarabiscot, scotie, bec de corbin, volute, spirales.
Les cintres et figures simples : plate-bandes, plein cintre, arc brisé, lancette, ogive, arcs divers, anse de panier, ovales.
Les intersections de moulures : retours de moulures, camardages, déformé de moulures, réduction proportionnelle, pénétration des moulures.
Généralités sur les pénétrations et les sections de volumes simples.
Principes généraux de vraies grandeurs : rabattement des joints, panneaux de moulures déformées.
Les ordres architecturaux et leurs proportions : ordres toscan, dorique, ionique, corinthien, composite, tracé des frontons..

Ce livre complète et approfondit le précédent volume. La démarche pédagogique proposée consiste à étudier des cas concrets de tracés et coupes de pierre. Chaque exemple est coté et fait l’objet d’un exercice de traçage à compléter. La démarche est détaillée et aboutit à une représentation en couleur de la pièce achevée.

Sommaire :
Pénétration et vue déformée de moulure (boudin, tore et corbeau). Exemples de construction : appuis, chapiteaux et bases de style gothique. Cônes, cylindres et pyramides. Méthodes et exercices.

The emergence of Tract Consultants in 1972 as Australia's first national planning, urban design and landscape design practice coincided with an unprecedented period of development in Australia. Tract, by virtue of the breadth of its integrated planning and landscape design skills, and also its national presence in Australia's largest four cities, participated in this building boom to the extent that most Australians now come into contact with Tract's work on a daily basis. Tract's story is of a leading contemporary planning and design practice built on uniting two professional disciplines that developed in isolation from each other for over half a century: planning and landscape design. This monograph presents an overview of more than 30 years' work, presented with colour photographs, plans, and drawings, and insightful essays from editors Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper.

GD #4: TRADITION & CRISIS is a source of architectonic inspiration. It demonstrates how the modern Danish architectural tradition continues in a time characterised by a historical financial and architectural crisis. The book features architecture within the following typologies: housing, sports buildings, culture buildings, educational and public buildings. The projects featured are created by Danish architectural firms such as BBP Arkitekter, Entasis, Gottlieb Paludan Arkitekter, KHR Arkitekter, and Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects.