Lord of the wings : the making of free form architecture / Mick Eekhout, Sieb Wichers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eekhout, Mick, author.

Wichers, Sieb, author.

Series:

Research in architectural engineering series ; Volume 12.

Research in Architectural Engineering Series ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design--Standards.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

IOS Press 2016

Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] : IOS Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Industrialized housing has been a common phenomenon in the building industry since the industrial revolution; the casting of iron components enabled Victorian iron casters to prefabricate entire buildings and to export them to all British colonies. It got a second boost from Modernist architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann; and a third boost in the US when the soldiers came back from the Second World War in 1945 and wanted to buy a ready-made house.In the later decades of the 20th century composite prototypes were built. Timber frame houses are extremely popular in low density areas worldwide. For densely populated areas housing is now firmly attached to reinforced concrete. The contracting industries have developed efficient building methods for the concrete structures on which separate systems of claddings are fixed to form a house.However, in the coming decades, designers, builders and scientists also have to keep the environment in mind, working with a minimal amount of materials, and for minimizing embodied energy and energy use. In the coming age minimal embodied energy and low ecological footprints are renewed values that will be added to energy-positive housing and that will have an influence on the building technology of the future. This will lead to a reformation of the building vocabulary. Other materials will have to be chosen and developed to function in building elements and components.

Contents:

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Summary

Starting Points and Tender

The Tender Proposal

Pre-Engineering and Prototyping

Final Engineering

Production

Transportations

Site Assembly &amp

Installation

The Slip-Stream of Composite and Carbon Fibre Free form Shells

Conclusions

Epilogue

References

Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-61499-550-8