Residential open building / Stephen Kendall and Jonathan Teicher

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendall, Stephen.

Contributor:

Teicher, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dwellings--Design and construction.

Dwellings.

Open plan (Building).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London; New York : E&FN Spon, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Realized Open Building and related projects by nationThe SAR Tissue Method; International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB); Glossary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-135-80676-4

1-135-80677-2

1-280-40107-9

9786610401079

0-203-23521-5

0-203-05676-0

9780203056769

OCLC:

57376270