Adaptable Architecture

Author : Robert Schmidt III,Simon Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317526445

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Adaptable Architecture by Robert Schmidt III,Simon Austin Pdf

Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them to be more adaptable, and hence create a more sustainable built environment. The book provides a theoretical foundation counterpointed by the experiences and ideas of those involved in the design and use of buildings. It explains many approaches to designing for change, with lessons from history, and case studies including The Cedar Rapids Public Library, Kentish Town Health Centre and Folkestone Performing Arts Centre, which stretch our thinking beyond the conventional notions of adaptability. The authors reveal the many conditions that make it a complex design phenomenon, by considering the purpose, design and business case of buildings as well as the physical product. Full of summaries, diagrams, reference charts, tables, and photos of exemplar solutions for use as conversational tools or working aids, this book is for any professional or student who wants to research, question, imagine, illustrate - and ultimately design for - adaptation. In addition, further information and resources are available through the Adaptable Futures website www.adaptablefutures.com which includes additional case studies, videos, information about industry events and up-to-the-minute developments.

Author : Robert Schmidt III,Simon Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317526452

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Adaptable Architecture by Robert Schmidt III,Simon Austin Pdf

Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them to be more adaptable, and hence create a more sustainable built environment. The book provides a theoretical foundation counterpointed by the experiences and ideas of those involved in the design and use of buildings. It explains many approaches to designing for change, with lessons from history, and case studies including The Cedar Rapids Public Library, Kentish Town Health Centre and Folkestone Performing Arts Centre, which stretch our thinking beyond the conventional notions of adaptability. The authors reveal the many conditions that make it a complex design phenomenon, by considering the purpose, design and business case of buildings as well as the physical product. Full of summaries, diagrams, reference charts, tables, and photos of exemplar solutions for use as conversational tools or working aids, this book is for any professional or student who wants to research, question, imagine, illustrate - and ultimately design for - adaptation. In addition, further information and resources are available through the Adaptable Futures website www.adaptablefutures.com which includes additional case studies, videos, information about industry events and up-to-the-minute developments.

Author : David Kronenburg
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856694615

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Flexible by David Kronenburg Pdf

Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of fl exible architecturebuildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, interior design, product design, and furniture design, this innovative book is the first to deal with the entire scope of the topic.

Author : Ivan Mistrik,Nour Ali,Rick Kazman,John Grundy,Bradley Schmerl
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128028919

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Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures by Ivan Mistrik,Nour Ali,Rick Kazman,John Grundy,Bradley Schmerl Pdf

Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system. This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices, and guidelines for developing adaptive systems, and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, how to architect a system for adaptability, software architecture for self-adaptive systems, understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved, architectural patterns for self-adaptive systems, how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system, how to connect the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and more. Explains software architectural processes and metrics supporting highly adaptive and complex engineering Covers validation, verification, security, and quality assurance in system design Discusses domain-specific software engineering issues for cloud-based, mobile, context-sensitive, cyber-physical, ultra-large-scale/internet-scale systems, mash-up, and autonomic systems Includes practical case studies of complex, adaptive, and context-critical systems

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:42697625

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Adaptable Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alejandro Bahamón
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : UCSD:31822032250565

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Prefab by Alejandro Bahamón Pdf

It is also a typological alternative that resolves the most complicated situations and programs, those like fold-up (and fold-down) offices, family growth, refuges for inveterate travelers, itinerant exhibits."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119152651

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Loose-Fit Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Loose-Fit Architecture: Designing Buildings for Change September/October 2017 Profile 249 Volume 87 No 5 ISBN 978 1119 152644 Guest-Edited by Alex Lifschutz The idea that a building is 'finished' or 'complete' on the day it opens its doors is hardwired into existing thinking about design, planning and construction. But this ignores the unprecedented rate of social and technological change. A building only begins its life when the contractors leave. With resources at a premium and a greater need for a sustainable use of building materials, can we still afford to construct new housing or indeed any buildings that ignore the need for flexibility or the ability to evolve over time? Our design culture needs to move beyond the idealisation of a creative individual designer generating highly specific forms with fixed uses. The possibilities of adaptation and flexibility have often been overlooked, but they create hugely exciting 'loose-fit' architectures that emancipate users to create their own versatile and vibrant environments. Contributors include: Stewart Brand, Renee Chow, Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, John Habraken, Edwin Heathcote, Despina Katsakakis, Stephen Kendall, Ian Lambot, Giorgio Macchi, Alexi Marmot, Andrea Martin, Kazunobu Minami, Peter Murray, Brett Steele, and Simon Sturgis.

Author : Peihua Gu,Deyi Xue,Qingjin Peng,Jian Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819958696

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Adaptable Design by Peihua Gu,Deyi Xue,Qingjin Peng,Jian Zhang Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of Adaptable Design (AD). It covers the conception, method, and application of AD to the real-world product design. AD's benefits are substantial as it upgrades, reuses, remanufactures and recycles products throughout the product lifecycle. It rapidly adapts the existing design in development of new designs. Key elements of AD include rationalized function structures, adaptable product architectures, adaptable interfaces, and adaptability evaluations. The main feature of AD is adaptability in design methods and product applications with general and specific adaptability. AD has also modeling and evaluating adaptabilities.

Author : Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,Andrea E. Hardy,Jacob J. Wilhelm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 1138647276

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Adaptive Architecture by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,Andrea E. Hardy,Jacob J. Wilhelm Pdf

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Author : Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,Andrea E. Hardy,Jacob J. Wilhelm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317237051

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Adaptive Architecture by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,Andrea E. Hardy,Jacob J. Wilhelm Pdf

The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings. Including contributors from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and South Africa, the essays are woven into a five-part framework which provides a broad and unique treatment of this important and timely issue.

Author : Natalie Plagaro Cowee
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9783728135155

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The Typology of Adaptability in Building Construction by Natalie Plagaro Cowee Pdf

Author : Tom Verebes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135055141

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Masterplanning the Adaptive City by Tom Verebes Pdf

Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism. Practitioners and researchers here discuss ideas from the fields of architecture, urbanism, the natural sciences, computer science, economics, and mathematics to find solutions for managing urban change in Asia and developing countries throughout the world. Divided into four parts (historical and theoretical background, our current situation, methodologies, and prototypical practices), the book includes a series of essays, interviews, built case studies, and original research to accompany chapters written by editor Tom Verebes to give you the most comprehensive overview of this approach. Essays by Marina Lathouri, Jorge Fiori, Jonathan Solomon, Patrik Schumacher, Peter Trummer, and David Jason Gerber. Interviews with Dana Cuff, Xu Wei Guo, Matthew Prior, Tom Barker, Su Yunsheng, and Brett Steele. Built case studies by Zaha Hadid Architects, James Corner Field Operations, XWG Studio, MAD, OCEAN Consultancy Network, Plasma Studio, Groundlab, Peter Trummer, Serie Architects, dotA, and Rocker-Lange Architects.

Author : Manuel Kretzer,Ludger Hovestadt
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783990436684

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ALIVE by Manuel Kretzer,Ludger Hovestadt Pdf

In times where the very concept of ‘nature’ is questioned not only in its philosophical dimension, but in the core of its biological materiality, we need to reconsider the interrelations between architecture and nature. This not only applies to strategies on environmental responsibility but equally on anticipatory human behavior and cultural or demographic variety. To address these challenges this book proposes to embrace the unknown and cultivate the architectural discipline towards an integrated and cross-disciplinary practice. It unravels compelling innovative and forward-thinking design narratives by leading international practitioners and researchers who investigate novel associations between architecture, nature and humanity for a future, alive architecture. Structured around the three closely cross-linked core themes “bioinspiration”, “materiability”, and “intelligence” the book engages with the starting point of an emerging new design field, where the symbiosis of physics, biology, computing and design promises the redefinition of what we call architecture today.

Author : Jeremy Till,Tatjana Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315393568

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Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till,Tatjana Schneider Pdf

Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge. Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illustrations and diagrams provide fascinating detail and allow direct visual comparisons to be made. Combining history, theory and design the book explains the social and economic benefits that can be achieved and shows the various ways it has been and can be delivered. The book ends with an accessible guide to how flexible housing might be designed and constructed today to achieve adaptable and ultimately sustainable buildings. Housing designers, housing managers and students of architecture, construction and housing will find this book of immense value both as a comprehensive reference and design manual.

Author : Mitja Košir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030184568

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Climate Adaptability of Buildings by Mitja Košir Pdf

This book examines bioclimatic design with a focus on the application of climate adaptability in the design of future buildings and renovation of existing energy-efficient buildings. It addresses the challenge of how to construct and renovate buildings so that they maintain desired performance even as the climate changes in future decades. The book is divided into six chapters that guide the reader from basic concepts to discussions on specific aspects of bioclimatic design, including: Why do we construct buildings and why do they matter? Where should we get started with bioclimatic design? The opportunities and potential held by climate for the by bioclimatic architecture and design. How and why should we design bioclimatic buildings to accommodate future climatic conditions? Climatic changes and implications for the bioclimatic design of buildings. The author presents an overview of effective bioclimatic design strategies that enable climate-adaptable buildings. He also addresses the problems of designing with climate, which are relevant for all types of building design—in particular, the implications for bioclimatic buildings that are intrinsically connected to the climate they were adapted to. The book combines representative examples, diagrams, and illustrations, and concludes each chapter by reviewing the most important findings and concepts discussed. The book offers a valuable source of information for researchers and architectural engineers, who will gain essential insights into the process of using the available tools and data to design buildings that can respond to future climate challenges, as well as a general introduction into the field of bioclimatic building design. The book will also be of interest to graduate students and architects, as it approaches bioclimatic design with a particular focus on the analytical design process for such buildings.