Building Type Basics for Retail and Mixed-Use Facilities - Hardcover

The Jerde Partnership

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047120322X ISBN 13: 9780471203223

Publisher: Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

Provides the nuts-and-bolts material to begin designing a retail or mixed-use facility.
* Features project photographs, diagrams and floor plans, and sections and details.
* Provides need-to-know information on such essential topics as consensus-based decision making, site selection, renovation, code compliance, and more.

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About the Author

The Jerde Partnership is a Southern California—based urban planning and architecture firm. For more than twenty-five years, the firm has been developing approaches to designing more humanistic, multiuse public spaces. Founded in 1977 and based on the vision and ideas of Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA, the firm has pioneered an experiential approach to place making. Jerde’s projects provide unique experiences with lasting social, cultural, and economic value. The firm is currently planning and designing large-scale, mixed-use projects in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

STEPHEN A. KLIMENT, FAIA (Series Founder and Editor), is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was chief editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.

From the Back Cover

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects

"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
–Oculus

Building Type Basics books provide architects, engineers, and facilities planners with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-follow format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Retail and Mixed-Use Facilities offers a nuts-and-bolts guide to designing diverse and communal structures supporting retail and various combinations of retail and dining, entertainment, housing, and more. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and cautionary advice on such projects as shopping centers, urban regeneration/renewal projects, town centers, individual and freestanding stores, e-commerce, and mixed-use facilities.

From the Inside Flap

Building Type Basics for Retail and Mixed-Use Facilities presents nuts-and-bolts guidelines and inspirational, real-world advice to jump-starting superlative retail design projects that create a viable environment for all forms of merchandising–including shopping centers, urban regeneration/ renewal projects, town centers, individual and freestanding stores, e-commerce, and mixed-use facilities. Leaders in the industry provide guidelines, cautionary advice, and lessons learned from a variety of actual retail design projects to steer everyone on a project toward making sound decisions early in the planning cycle. Descriptive illustrations and need-to-know information offer valuable coverage on such essential topics as lighting, site selection, renovation, and code compliance.

This indispensable guide:

• Asks and answers twenty questions that frequently arise in the early phases of a project commission
• Provides project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details
• Includes design guidelines for a variety of retail and mixed-use building projects, including some of the most innovative contemporary designs

This conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluable guide for busy, dedicated professionals who want to get moving quickly as they embark on a new project. Like every Building Type Basics book, it provides authoritative, up-to-date information instantly and saves architects and facilities planners countless hours of research. Engineering consultants will also find in this volume a wealth of information to help them tackle retail and mixed-use building commissions of all kinds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047120322X
• ISBN 13: 9780471203223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246