UID:
almafu_9959231107402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages) :
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-82783-4
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1-280-40131-1
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0-203-13378-1
Inhalt:
This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings. In particular it raises questions about the kinds of knowledge we have and will need in designing, making and enjoying our buildings. At the very least this book provides an overview of the fragmented construction industry, making it a vital purchase for all construction related students. However, the author has written for a wider audience making the book an essential guide for those interested in the form of buildings or the deliberate ways in which people build them.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; The Idea of Building: Thought and action in the design and production of buildings; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; Preliminaries; The whole is greater than the sum of its parts; Four orthodoxies of building; An alternative approach; A debt to history; Exclusions; Working method; Book One The Flight from Equilibrium; 1. Buildings as unstable systems in dynamic environments; Time in building affairs; Modes of energy control; Dynamic responses in buildings; 2. Flows of matter and energy; Physical flows to and from a building; Logistics; Modes of control
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Systems of valves, filters and reservoirs Form and the direction of flows; Specialized environments; Non-physical flows; Complexity and irreversibility; Systems and sub-systems, or systems of systems?; Site and location; Context; 3. Uncertainty in the industrial environment; Five forms of uncertainty; Turbulent environments; 4. The decline of technical precedent; 5. The social demand for buildings; Effective demand; Interlude; Some Polemical Remarks; Book Two Building Knowledge and Building Experience; 1. Historical concepts of building science; The question of principles
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The rise of building technologies The rise of building research; Terminology; 2. The analysis of sensations; Climate; Survival and comfort; Thermal comfort; Health and comfort; The sensory basis of comfort; Comfort and space; Ergonomics and comfort; Task-oriented comfort systems; The idea of comfort; 3. The analysis of energy; Energy and environment; Alternative sources of energy; Energy absorbed in buildings; 4. Building engineering; Structural behaviour; Fire engineering; Environmental controls; Lighting design; Acoustic design; Cost analyses; 5. Building pathology and its lessons
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Time in building affairs Synergistic failures; Deliberate reservoirs; Building failures; Measuring behaviour; 6. Intelligent buildings and intelligent sites; The intelligent building; The intelligent site; The building as a robot; The informating society and concepts of transparency; 7. The building process; Inputs to the building process; Building as a product or output; Transformation, production and the building team; Variety of building process; 8. Systems and conventions; Process approach; Component buildings; 9. What industry follows function?; Function; The performance approach
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What kind of industry is the building industry? The organization of building work; Management and the industry; 10. Representation and regularity; Type; The problem of integration; Idea and image; 11. Technology transfer; Apprenticeship; Peer-group learning; Simulation; Observation; Didactic teaching and learning; Personal or directed study of literature; Assumptions of stability; Forms of building knowledge; 12. Who is the builder?; 13. The idea of technology, and its critics; The processes of industrial change; The informal innovation infrastructure; Concepts of research and development; Book Three Another Critical Position
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-138-13511-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-419-17830-9
Sprache:
Englisch
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