Affordable Home Design: Innovations and Renovations - Hardcover

Torres, Martha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060589086 ISBN 13: 9780060589080

Publisher: Harper, 2005

Synopsis

One of our most important requirements as humans is the dwelling. Designing a home is thus one of the most important challenges architecture has to deal with. On the one hand, architects must create homes that guarantee with the highest of quality the wellbeing and comfort of their inhabitants. On the other hand, architects must learn how to manage a client's limited budget by reducing costs without affecting the quality of the final result.

Affordable Home Design showcases a wide array of solutions to this same architectural challenge of good design and structure on a budget. The projects featured include extensions of houses and apartments already in existence, ecological housing design, sustainable and structurally cost-effective homes, and new buildings in strictly coded conservation zones. Through more than 250 full-color photographs, this essential book reveals how today's architects are able to adapt to the necessities of a more affordable budget when approaching the always exciting necessity of designing a home.

About this title

About the Author:

Martha Torres received a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and later obtained a master's in the History of Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Apart from her work as an architect, she has coordinated and written diverse publications in the architectural field. She has collaborated on courses at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060589086
• ISBN 13: 9780060589080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176