Format:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203563328
Content:
Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples. Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit
Note:
Cover -- Designing Better Buildings -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Design as a value generator -- Part One: The perspective of clients -- 2. Clients and quality, -- 3. Learning more from what we build -- 4. Client's perspective on the value of good design -- 5. The long-term costs of owning and using buildings -- Part Two: Case studies of added value -- 6. Measuring value or only cost: the need for new valuation methods -- 7. Measuring and improving functionality and performance -- 8. Design quality in new schools -- 9. Assessing benefits in the health sector -- 10. Making special places for health care -- 11. Adding value through better urban design -- Part Three: Delivering better buildings -- 12. Design qualtiy needs conscious values -- 13. Flexibility and adaptability -- 14. Managing design and construction -- Part Four: Measuring quality and value -- 15. Inclusive maps -- 16. Achieving quality in building design by intention -- 17. Building indicators of design quality -- 18. Housing quality indicators in practice -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Macmillan, Sebastian Designing Better Building Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415315258
Language:
English
Keywords:
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