Ongoing urbanisation requires rapid, low-emission construction methods. Architects, investors and politicians are on the hunt for housing solutions that are fast and cost-effective, yet ...
Advances in the materials and the digitalization of architecture bring about new methods in design and construction. Whereas traditional timber construction consists of pre-cut ...
Este libro selecciona 31 de los arquitectos contemporáneos más relevantes de la esfera internacional que utilizan este material tradicional de modos novedosos e inspiradores. ...
Highly illustrated with drawings, graphs and sizing tables, enabling designers to make the most efficient choices.Structural timber elements: a pre-scheme design guide 2nd edition ...
Timber: the old raw material and building material returns. Based on 24 international projects, the book provides an overview of the range of possibilities ...
Este libro constituye un manual para la identificación de maderas en bienes culturales europeos, donde la teoría y los ejemplos prácticos que se brindan, ...
Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a citys success or cause its destruction. At the same time, city-building ...
Análisi del ciclo de vida y ejemplos de usos, procesos y acabados.La necesidad de reducir sustancialmente nuestro impacto en el planeta debe traducirse en ...
Traditionally a building material of hot climate zones in Asia and Latin America, bamboo is increasingly discovered by architects of the Northern hemisphere as ...
This book explores the socio-cultural and the tectonic aspects of Kerala's wooden architecture, which is deeply rooted in religious and secular customs and shaped ...
Health and environmental compatibility are key topics in contemporary society. The book shows how the built environment can be aesthetically pleasing, modern and, at ...
In this book, top science, business and design professionals give a good glimpse of the emerging New Biomateriality movement in Finland. How can Finnish ...
In Vorarlberg, you can find a 610,000-cubic-metre volume of pine, spruce and hardwood that has made the region renowned for its exemplary tradition of ...
Rirkrit Tiravanija has created the second Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission artwork for National Gallery Singapore. Featuring an interlocking bamboo structure with a ...
In the triumvirate of dominant structural building materialswood, metal, and masonryeach has its advantages, but none are as intertwined with the human spirit as ...
