“Holistic Housing: Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes” is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building’s usage and ageing over its ‘life cycle’. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning.

15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building’s significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.

-Housing construction for the future
-Anchoring sustainability in the design and planning process
-Specially developed system for direct comparisons and easy evaluation of buildings
-Sustainability in a dialogue between a home and its residents

Content

008 Introduction
010 Positions

“Holistic Housing: Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes” is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building’s usage and ageing over its ‘life cycle’. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning.

15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building’s significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.

-Housing construction for the future
-Anchoring sustainability in the design and planning process
-Specially developed system for direct comparisons and easy evaluation of buildings
-Sustainability in a dialogue between a home and its residents

Content

008 Introduction
010 Positions

This first volume of the new series, DETAIL engineering, will present the philosophy, working methods and interdisciplinary approach used by the engineers at schlaich bergermann und partner. The presentation of current projects in all of their major aspects, as well as specialist articles by a large number of authors, will show clearly why this engineering office operates successfully as one of the most renowned firms of its type in the world, without losing any authenticity in its work.

“Architecture cannot be divided, as manifest construction and ecological efficiency have the same importance as functionality and design standards in all buildings. Form and supporting structure are only convincing when they merge in a building into a single entity that cannot be questioned and is understood as a component of a comprehensive building culture.” In the spirit of this maxim by Jörg Schlaich, the Stuttgart-based engineering office, schlaich bergermann und partner, has been working successfully with various architects on the international level and on a very wide range of building projects for over 30 years. Innovative and comprehensible buildings are the focus, also following the shift to a new generation, as are integrated thinking, constructing and acting.

With articles by Annette Bögle, Christian Brensing, Falk Jäger, Roland Pawlitschko and Oliver Schaeffer.

CONTENT
007 Preface
008 Interview with schlaich bergermann und partner
018 It’s the spirit and heart of this office that make the difference

Structural design and form
022 How does the estructure get its form?
025 Architects and engineers working in concert
031 Design variations for a high-rise laboratory building
032 From A to Z – from concept to realisation
039 Processes with minimal interfaces
043 New membranas for the Munich Olympic Pool

Materials and innovation
046 Using the material properly in design and construction
049 Experiments with timber
050 Developing new qualities in materials
058 The courage to be innovative with materials and forms of construction

Perspectives and synergies
062 Sunshine = freedom? – Four decades of solar engineering
068 Potential and trendes in the use of solar energy
070 Synergies between solar and structural engineering
075 Research activities in the solar termal field
076 From movable structure to smart system
081 Intelligent Polymer cushions and self-cooling milk packaging

Cooperation and responsability
084 On the self-image of the responsable structural engineer
089 The desire to do things properly
090 Think globally, act locally
094 Cooperation between Boston, New York and Stuttgart
097 Brazilian passion and German rationalism
098 Daring to experiment – current projects with artists
101 On the art of transforming ideas

The didactics of structures
104 Fundamental design principles
112 A bridge as a hands-on (or feet-on) exhibit

Projects and people
116 Catalogue of projects
133 People
136 Reference, picture credits

Publisher: DETAIL
ISBN: 978-3-920034-57-7
Pages: 136 (Large number of graphics and photos )
Format: 23 x 29,7 cm
Language: English

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DETAIL Engineering 1: schlaich bergermann und partner originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 10 Aug 2012.

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Over the past 50 years, DETAIL has presented countless architectural highlights, which, in their time, drove development forward thanks to their experimental designs or groundbreaking use of materials. Yet, how have these once innovative designs fared? What lessons have been learned? Have the buildings changed over the decades?

Based on the rubric “A Second Look”, part of DETAIL’s 50th anniversary, the publication presents a new look at selected structures from the past five decades. This includes material from previous publications combined with current information, with a critical eye cast on current trends in comparison to their forerunners. What has become of the developments that these earlier structures began? What conclusions can be drawn about the original designs? The book not only presents buildings that have changed greatly over time, but also buildings whose designs have stood the test of time – designs that have lost none of their relevance and innovation over years of use.

006 Introduction
008 Glass Pavilion at Broadfield House in Kingswinford
020 The  “Hanse Viertel” Shopping Arcade in Hamburg
028 Olympic Ensemble in Munich
052 Diocesan Museum in Eichstät
060 Genter Strasse Housing Development in Munich
070 St. Pius Catholic Church in Meggen

080 Hongkong and Shangai Bank in Hong Kong
096 Waterloo International Terminal in London
108 Church of Light in Ibaraki
124 Eden Project in St Austell
140 Project data
142 Authors
143 Picture credits
144 Imprint

Pages: 144 (illustrations, tables and photos)
Language: German/English
Format: 19 x 23.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-920034-59-1

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DETAIL: Architecture and the Test of Time originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 08 Aug 2012.

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