Format:
1 online resource (464 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781119024989
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- PART 1 ANALYSIS -- 1 The Framework for Understanding -- Process and knowledge -- The initial suggestion -- Carrying out the evaluation -- Physical and social context -- The basis of analysis -- Knowledge needed for choice -- Summary -- 2 Building Purpose and Performance -- Activities, space and construction -- Introduction to performance requirements -- Environmental impact and sustainability -- Summary -- 3 Common Forms - Specific Solutions -- General and constructed forms -- The emergence of general building forms -- Uncertainty and risk -- Summary -- 4 Construction Variables -- The variables of construction - the outcome of choice -- Choosing materials -- Choosing shape -- Choosing size -- Spatial relationships -- Joints and fixings -- Summary -- 5 Defining Conditions -- Physical and social conditions -- Activity and construction-modifying environments -- The dynamics of the system -- Choice of interior elements of the building -- Inside the construction itself -- Summary -- 6 The Resource Base -- Introduction -- Materials - the primary resource -- Knowledge and skill - the human resource -- Production equipment - the technological resource -- Money - the enabling resource -- Summary -- 7 Design Concept -- Linking design to construction choice - flows and transfers -- Concept design - broad options -- Physical performance and appearance - commodity, firmness and delight -- Function of the whole, function of the parts -- Summary -- 8 Appearance -- Visualising attributes and response -- Space and context -- Physical space for the construction -- The approach to analysis -- Summary -- 9 Analysis of Physical Behaviour -- Visualising conditions and response -- Function and performance - a technical aim -- Preventing failure - a technical objective -- The role of observation and science in the analysis -- The approach to analysis.
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Additional Edition:
9781405158749
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781405158749
Language:
English
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