Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures : Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors

Yu, Mayine

ISBN 10: 0415899796 / ISBN 13: 9780415899796

Published by Taylor & Francis, 2013

About this Item

Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 280 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | An overview of the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles using case studies to illuminate the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures : Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415899796
• ISBN 13: 9780415899796
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Hervorragend
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work using this book as a resource to help you…

With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present, this book illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors. Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic walls to digitally fabricated curtain walls, each have a material focus section to help you understand their intrinsic properties so that you can decide which will best keep the weather out of your building.

Examples from the ancient world, including the Pyramids and the Great Wall, through a range of renowned modern architects, such as Studio Gang, Sauerbruch Hutton, Herzog and deMeuron, and Rafael Moneo, illustrate how significant works in the history of architecture explored innovative use of materials – stone, brick, concrete, glass, and aluminium. Along the way, principles of construction from masonry and basic framing through ever more sophisticated envelope systems address classic problems presented by gravity, wind, rain, and sun with studies of lateral forces, building movements and materials that bridge the gaps in between them.

About the Author

Mayine L. Yu is a senior associate at Davis Brody Bond Architects in New York and was an adjunct associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.