UID:
edocfu_9959244520102883
Format:
1 online resource (314 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-80676-4
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1-135-80677-2
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1-280-40107-9
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9786610401079
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0-203-23521-5
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0-203-05676-0
Content:
Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.
Note:
Includes index.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; What is residential Open Building?; Acknowledgments; A RESIDENTIAL OPEN BUILDING PRIMER; Introduction; Incubators of Open Building; A brief interpretive history of Open Building; A SURVEY OF MILESTONE PROJECTS; Case studies; METHODS AND PRODUCTS; Technical overview; Methods and systems by level; A survey of infill systems, products and companies; ECONOMIC AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS; The economics of Open Building; Additional trends toward Open Building; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Open Building activity by nation; The future of Open Building
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Realized Open Building and related projects by nationThe SAR Tissue Method; International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB); Glossary; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-39898-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-419-23830-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203056769