Service Cores - Softcover

Yeang, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047197904X ISBN 13: 9780471979043

Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Synopsis

The Detail in Building series is an essential source of contemporary data covering the key elements of building design that form the vocabulary of current architecture. Previous titles include Staircases, Soft Canopies, Glass Canopies, Columns, Cable Nets and Wind Towers, and a publication on Balconies is currently in preparation. Each is clearly analysed, both historically and in terms of recent examples by key practices around the world. The combination of building context, design aesthetics and technical solution, as revealed in the case studies, is highly informative as well as unique in a field where specific technical quality of design detailing is often insufficiently exposed by the superficial presentation of designs. Service Cores, the seventh title in the series, deals with the internal vertical cores of buildings: the parts that contain the elevators, elevator-shafts, lobbies, staircases, mechanical, electrical and IT riser ducts, toilets and other components necessary both for environmental servicing and to provide access to the building's useable spaces. Initially associated mainly with skyscrapers and science buildings, service cores are becoming equally essential in the design of other highly-serviced building types, from laboratories and high-tech buildings to hotels, shopping malls and stadiums. The author discusses the historical treatment and development of service cores, and provides an outline guide to the considerations required in their design. This is supported by a series of case studies, featuring mainly skyscraper buildings from all over the world by a range of architects of international renown.

About this title

About the Author:

KEN YEANG is an architect and Principal (with his partner Tengku Dato Robert Hamzah) of the architectural firm T R Hamzah & Yeang Sdn Bhd, as well as a Professor at the University of Sheffield. The firm's work has been featured in many international journals, including The Architectural Review, Architectural Design, Architectural Record and Building Design. He holds a doctoral degree in architecture from Cambridge University, where he specialised in ecological issues applied to planning and building design. His previous publications include The Architecture of Malaysia (Pepin Press, Holland, 1992), Designing with Nature (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1995) and The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered - A Design Primer (Academy Editions, London, 1996).

Review:

..".a down-to-earth book, full of practical advice on planning the vertical elements in office buildings. The book succeeds in two directions. It is an excellent primer on the practical aspects of office building design, and it gives a clear insight into Yeang's approach to high-rise buildings." --Architecture Review, December 2000 "The technical content is comprehensive." --RIBA Journal, January 2001

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 047197904X
• ISBN 13: 9780471979043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96