In Detail: Building Skins

TRAMA

This volume focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of facade design, from the selection and use of materials to the advanced technical possibilities now open to the architect. A wide array of carefully selected international examples show the theory in the practice.

SOMMARIO

Shell, Skin, Materials.- Is it all “just” a facade? The functional, energetic and structural aspects of the building skin.- The Building Skin as Heat and Power Generator.- Materials in the building skin — from material to construction.- Documentation Centre in Hinzert.- Museum Liner in Appenzell.- House in Dornbirn.- Administration Building in Heilbronn.- Cycling Stadium in Berlin.- Glasgow Science Centre.- Service Centre in Munich.- Pavilion in Amsterdam.- Micro-Compact Home in Munich.- Selfridges Department Store in Birmingham.- A Summer Space.- Eden Project near St Austell.- Allianz Arena in Munich.- Japanese Pavilion in Hanover.- Factory Hall in Bobingen.- House in Zurndorf.- House near Tokyo.- Prada Flagship Store in Tokyo.- Church in Munich.- Administration Building in Kronberg.- Trade-Fair Tower in Hanover.- Administration Building in Wiesbaden.- Federal Environment Agency in Dessau.- Museum of Hiroshige Ando in Batoh.- Passenger Shipping Terminal in Yokohama.- Library in Delft.- Extension of Villa Garbald in Castasegna.- Academy of Music in Santiago de Compostela.

AUTORE

The architect and Editor in Chief of DETAIL Christian Schittich (1956) has written most of the titles in the DETAIL series.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783764376406
• Collana: In Detail (englisch)
• Dimensioni: 297 x 230 mm Ø 1320 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 198 p. 397 illus., 184 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 198