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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137004803321

Autore

Vogler Andreas

Titolo

The house as a product / / Andreas Vogler ; Mick Eekhout, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : IOS Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61499-548-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Research in Architectural Engineering Series, , 1873-6033 ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

690

Soggetti

Industrialized building

Construction industry - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Industrialized housing has been a common phenomenon in the building industry since the industrial revolution; the casting of iron components enabled Victorian iron casters to prefabricate entire buildings and to export them to all British colonies. It got a second boost from Modernist architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann; and a third boost in the US when the soldiers came back from the Second World War in 1945 and wanted to buy a ready-made house.In the later decades of the 20th century composite prototypes were built. Timber frame houses are extremely popular in low density areas worldwide. For densely populated areas housing is now firmly attached to reinforced concrete. The contracting industries have developed efficient building methods for the concrete structures on which separate systems of claddings are fixed to form a house.However, in the coming decades, designers, builders and scientists also have to keep the environment in mind, working with a minimal amount of materials, and for minimizing embodied energy and energy use. In the coming age minimal embodied energy and low ecological footprints are renewed values that will be added to energy-positive housing and that will have an influence on the building technology of the future. This will lead to a reformation of the building



vocabulary. Other materials will have to be chosen and developed to function in building elements and components.