Название: Roofscape Design: Regenerating the city upon the city
Автор: Gustavo Ambrosini, Guido Callegari
Издательство: JOVIS
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: английский / English

As focus shifts to “no net land take” city regeneration approaches one of the main traditional elements of architecture―the roof―is gaining renewed prominence. This book provides a survey of worldwide experiences of city rooftop re-use strategies such as building-on and integrating new volumes within the existing buildings. Twenty-four case studies illustrate a multiplicity of projects that innovate on traditional typologies by offering multiple ways of living, working and using public services in the city. They all share a symbiotic method that exploits the extraordinariness of the “top condition” offered by the roof to foster a subtle change in the whole building's urban identity. They test new technologies for light and quick construction methods in order to deal with structural constraints and the needs of inhabitants. City roofscape redesign belongs to an adaptive attitude based on knowledge of the dynamic process of transformation of the physical realm, far removed from regressive preservation-only behavior. It represents a remarkable way of coping with urban regeneration issues.

Название: White and Faded: Restoring Beauty in Your Home and Life
Автор: Janet Parrella-Van Den Berg
Издательство: Thomas Nelson
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 23 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The only thing more beautiful than home transformation is personal transformation. Bring new life into your home and your soul through the gorgeous photography, inspiring story, and creative design ideas from Janet Parrella-Van Den Berg, founder of popular UK brand White & Faded. Journey through these hope-filled pages, and discover the hidden beauty in your own home and life. In White & Faded, Janet Parrella-Van Den Berg takes you on a stunning photographic tour through her restored English homes as she invites you into her personal journey of restoring her own sense of value and purpose—and reveals how you can do the same.

Название: Single Family Houses
Автор: Christian Schittich
Издательство: Birkhauser
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. In this completely revised and expanded second edition these topical developments have been taken into consideration. The organisation and layout of the first volume, with its concise and detailed project documentation, has been retained. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind changing family structures. At the same time, the contributions provide an in-depth introduction to planning single family houses, from the design of the floor plan to useful tips for the realisation. In addition to this fundamental information, 22 projects are documented, providing ideas and inspiration for planners, students and clients. The international selection of projects highlights current trends in planning and designing single family housing and reveals the tried and tested basics.

Название: Essentials of Landscape Composition
Автор: Leonard Richmond
Издательство: Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486139005
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 110
Размер: 12,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Anyone who has mastered the art of writing can learn to draw, according to this accomplished artist and author of several fine art books. Confident that most people have the ability to express themselves artistically once they have acquired the right techniques, Richmond offers his tried-and-true methods of drawing and composition in this easy-to-follow guide.

Название: Collected: Living with the Things You Love
Автор: Fritz Karch, Rebecca Robertson
Издательство: Abrams
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 390 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In Collected, expert collectors and decorating experts Fritz Karch and Rebecca Robertson present a tour of peculiar, elegant, and awe-inspiring collections from around the world. The book teaches readers the basic principles of the hunt while exploring the thoughtful and inventive ways people display their various collections, from the accessible and affordable to the aspirational extreme. The featured collections range from dice to café au lait bowls to 19th-century-French sewing tools to sand from world travels—illustrating collections as expressions of personal style. From no frills (“The Modest”) to ornate (“The Exceptionalist”), Karch and Robertson examine the selected collections according to personality type. The book showcases 16 different collecting personalities, each with its own chapter, featuring gorgeous photo­graphs, vignettes showing how the objects are displayed, and a collecting lesson.

Название: Архитектурная физика
Автор: Лицкевич В.К., Макриненко Л.И., Мигалина И.В. и др., Под ред. Н.В. Оболенского
Издательство: Архитектура-С
Год: 2007
Страниц: 450
Формат: djvu
Размер: 26 mb
Качество: хорошее

Рассматриваются теоретические основы формирования комфортной светоцветовой, тепловой и акустической среды в городах и зданиях. Излагаются методы нормирования, расчета и проектирования ограждающих конструкций, освещения, инсоляции, солнцезащиты, цветового решения, акустики, звукоизоляции зданий и борьбы с городскими и производственными шумами.
Для студентов архитектурных вузов и факультетов.

Название: Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand, 3rd Edition
Автор: Simon Unwin
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 318 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The underlying theme of Twenty-Five+ Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experience; how it can help us make sense of the world and contribute to our sense of identity and place. Exploring these dimensions through a wide range of case studies that illustrate the rich diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, this book is essential reading for every architect. With the addition of numerous shorter analyses, this new edition covers an even greater range of architectural ideas, providing students and architects with further inspiration for exploration in their own design work. Architects live by ideas. But where do they come from? And how do they shape buildings? There is no one right way to do architecture. This book illustrates many. Its aim is to explore the rich diversity of architectural creativity by analysing a wide range of examples to extract the ideas behind them.

Название: Mid-Atlantic Home Landscaping: 46 Landscape Designs with 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region, 4th Edition
Автор: Roger Holmes, Rita Buchanan
Издательство: Creative Homeowner
ISBN: 1580115861
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 232
Размер: 178,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Discover inspiring ideas for making your Mid-Atlantic home landscape more attractive and functional! 46 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the Mid-Atlantic region, each taking into consideration the unique climate and environment. Over 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant and maintain them, plus which invasive species to avoid.

Название: Dwelling with Architecture
Автор: Roderick Kemsley, Christopher Platt
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses. That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for significant architectural insights is hardly an original observation. However this book seeks to bring the two topics together in a unique way. In exploring a building type that lies on the cusp of what is commonly understood as ‘building’ and ‘architecture’, it asks fundamental questions about what the very nature of architecture is. Who indeed is the architect and what is their role in the process of creating meaningful buildings?

Название: Southern Coastal Home Landscaping: 38 Landscape Designs with 160+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region, 2nd Edition
Автор: Stephen G. Pategas, Kristin Pategas
Издательство: Creative Homeowner
ISBN: 1580115926
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 200
Размер: 132,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Discover inspiring ideas to make your southern coastal home landscape more attractive and functional! 38 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the southern U.S. coast, each taking into consideration the unique climate and environment. Over 160 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant and maintain them.