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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450683403321

Autore

Kendall Stephen

Titolo

Residential open building / / Stephen H. Kendall and Jonathan Teicher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : E&FNSpon, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-80677-2

1-280-40107-9

9786610401079

0-203-23521-5

0-203-05676-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TeicherJonathan

Disciplina

690.8

690/.8

Soggetti

Dwellings - Design and construction

Open plan (Building)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; What is residential Open Building?; Acknowledgments; A RESIDENTIAL OPEN BUILDING PRIMER; Introduction; Incubators of Open Building; A brief interpretive history of Open Building; A SURVEY OF MILESTONE PROJECTS; Case studies; METHODS AND PRODUCTS; Technical overview; Methods and systems by level; A survey of infill systems, products and companies; ECONOMIC AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS; The economics of Open Building; Additional trends toward Open Building; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Open Building activity by nation; The future of Open Building

Realized Open Building and related projects by nationThe SAR Tissue Method; International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB); Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and



international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.