Название: Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Автор: Ben Wilson
Издательство: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385548117
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 25,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior. Since the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks.

Название: Seismic Design and Analysis of Tanks
Автор: Gian Michele Calvi, Roberto Nascimbene
Издательство: Wiley
ISBN: 1119849810
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 355
Размер: 32,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A detailed view on the effects of seismic activity on tank structures. As the use of aboveground and underground storage tanks (ASTs and USTs) continues to grow―with approximately 545 thousand in the US alone―the greatest threat to from AST and USTs is the contamination of groundwater, a vital source of drinking water throughout the world and one that close to half of Americans rely upon. These tanks suffer a great deal of strain during an earthquake, as a complicated pattern of stress affects them such that poorly designed tanks have leaked, buckled, or even collapsed during seismic events.

Название: Trajectories in Architecture Plan, Sensation, Temporality
Автор: Michael Jasper
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367444267
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 185
Размер: 36,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These three trajectories – the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities – serve to organise individual chapters in the central sections of the book and provide a new lens to the study of period work, revealing architectural conditions and consequent spatial effects little explored to date.

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Название: Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects
Автор: Donna Kacmar
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: ‎1032256222
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 204
Размер: 467,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book showcases small hotels, all located in the United States, designed by architects who use light and materials in interesting and intentional ways. The designs also deliberately connect to their local history, context, or land – in many cases all three. Both the architecture and the operations harmonize with the place, whether that is a bustling city, small town, or natural area. Many are new buildings but some are adaptive reuse projects or renovations of historic properties, extending the connectivity of the place into the future.

Название: Housing for Hope and Wellbeing
Автор: Flora Samuel
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: ‎0367469022
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 245
Размер: 15,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing system and why it is in ‘crisis’ while acting as an important reminder of how housing contributes to social value, defined as community, health, self development and identity.

Название: Seismic Retrofit of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Автор: Stelios Antoniou
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: ‎1119987326
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 538
Размер: 126,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Seismic Retrofit of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings Understand the complexities and challenges of retrofitting building infrastructure. Across the world, buildings are gradually becoming structurally unsound. Many were constructed before seismic load capacity was a mandatory component of building standards, and were often built with low-quality materials or using unsafe construction practices.

Автор: William Stanwix and Alex Sparrow
Название: The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp-Lime
Издательство: UIT Cambridge
Язык: Английский
Год: 2014
Формат: MOBI
Размер: 31,9 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 368

The Hempcrete Book is a detailed practical manual for architects, surveyors, professional builders and self-builders. It explains how to source and mix hempcrete and how to use it in new builds and restoration. In colour throughout, fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this book provides a full explanation of construction techniques, highlighting potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. It includes a comprehensive resources section and examples of completed builds, with design notes.

Название: Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon, 2nd Edition
Автор: Owen Hopkins
Издательство: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: ‎1529420342
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 95,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other architectural dictionaries, the reader doesn't have to know the name before looking it up.

Название: Black & Decker The Complete Outdoor Builder, Updated Edition: From Arbors to Walkways - 150 DIY Projects
Автор: Editors of Cool Springs Press
Издательство: ‎ Cool Springs
ISBN: 0760354758
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 562
Размер: 130 MB
Язык: English

This handsome volume offers a library of outdoor projects for do-it-yourselfers in one compact place.
Boasting a hefty 560 pages of detailed how-to information and an attractive price point, this is one project book you do not want to miss out on.

Название: The Deck Access Housing Design Guide: A Return to Streets in the Sky
Автор: Andrew Beharrell, Rory Olcayto
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: ‎1032218959
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 211
Размер: 209,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck access housing, sharing practical guidance and providing in-depth case studies, while also presenting historical context about this flexible and evolving housing type.