Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Holistic Housing: Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes

Holistic Housing: Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes

Drexler, Hans
El Khouli, Sebastian

Paperback

Series: Detail Special

General ArchitectureGeneral Art

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 3920034783
ISBN13: 9783920034782
Publisher: Detail
Published: Jul 26 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 3.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.40 Depth: 12.90
Language: English

Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life cycle'. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning. 15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building's significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.

Also from

Drexler, Hans

View All

Also in

General Architecture

View All