Smart Materials and Technologies

NOTE EDITORE

Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new"smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problemsin building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diversebut largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access toinformation about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved thisproblem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologiesavailable to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials bydescribing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest howthese same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their designgoals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materialsscience and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.

SOMMARIO

Chapter 1: Materials in Architecture and designChapter 2: Fundamental Characterization of MaterialsChapter 3: Energy Phenomena and environmentsChapter 4: Types and Characteristics of Smart MaterialsChapter 5: Elements and Control SystemsChapter 6: Smart ProductsChapter 7: Smart Components, Assemblies and Systems in ArchitectureChapter 8: Smart EnvironmentsChapter 9: Revisiting the Design ContextBibliographyGlossaryIndex

AUTORE

Michelle Addington is the Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at Yale University. Daniel L. Schodek is the Kumagai Research Professor of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Design School, where he taught from 1969 until 2008.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781138143357
• Dimensioni: 9.6666667 x 7.4444444 in Ø 1.85
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 254