Methoden & Materialien

The debate on the sustainability of concrete as a building material rages on, shaped by interest groups from the construction industry to climate activists. With over 1600 completed projects, Felix Sommer and his team at Berlin-based company SB5ÜNF are one of Germany's best-known experts specializing in concrete repairs, maintenance, and renovation. His engaging stories provide an insight into spectacular building projects, into perfecting the craftsmanship, and into cooperating equitably with all parties involved in a project. This lavishly designed volume offers an extraordinary perspective that enriches the conversation around one of modernism's most impactful construction materials. Also available as special edition-bound in concrete: 978-3-98612-086-3 - Offers an unconventional entry point into the ongoing debate on the sustainability and aesthetics of concrete - Engagingly presents the expert knowledge of a concrete repair, maintenance, and restoration specialist - Features previously unpublished photographs of well-known constructions, from Peter Haimerl's renovated forest house in Schedlberg to the Futurium (Richter Musikowski) and the Neue Nationalgalerie (Mies van der Rohe) in Berlin - Selected for the shortlist of The Best German Book Design 2024 (Stiftung Buchkunst)

A study on the preservation and promotion of local craft heritage across the Emirati regionIrthi Contemporary Crafts Council's Architecture of Culture research project explores craft preservation and its relationship to the materials, architecture and environments of the broader Emirati community. Design Labs II is a collaboration with the American University of Sharjah's College of Architecture, Art and Design.

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Details today Methods of construction are evolving rapidly, driven by sustainability demands, new technical possibilities, the optimization of materials, and more efficient processes. This precise and detailed analysis of 25 Swiss projects render visible the often-hidden innovation within contemporary architecture. Five different construction methods are documented using photographs and isometric analytical drawings of building shells at a scale of 1:15. This book is intended to stimulate a profound discussion of future developments. - Detailed insight into construction methods using the example of contemporary Swiss architecture - Isometric detail drawings and a unique photo essay - Buildings by EMI, Caruso St John, Peter Märkli, Meier Hug, Esch Sintzel, and many more

The latest edition of the University of Virginia School of Architecture's design journal, LUNCH 15 turns to the concept of Thickness and considers what possibilities lie in poché, thick description, thin assemblies, and in the many layers of the built environment. <BR>The issue considers Thickness in four sections: "Places" navigates the ways we understand the spaces in which we live and work. "Materials" delaminates the building blocks of our world and how we know them. "Representation" traces the many forms and layers of communication through which we see or that might obscure our vision. Finally, "Relations" follows threads that bind. In a world operating between the thick and thin of it, how will your lines be drawn?

This volume explores the concept of 'spatial transparency'; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable, layered or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present.

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This volume consists of papers presented at a conference on Structural Integrity Assessment, held at Owens Park Conference Centre, University of Manchester, UK, 31 March-2 April 1992.

Integrates both conceptual and hands-on quantitative knowledge on construction equipment into a process that facilitates student learning. Includes both commercial and heavy civil examples and case studies. A companion website provides an instructor manual, solutions, additional examples, lecture slides, figures and diagrams.

Trajan's Column, which is one of the great monuments of Roman antiquity, has been obsessively documented over the centuries by historians and archaeologists, and admired by tourists and Romans alike. Trajan's Hollow exposes, and renders material, qualities of the Column neglected amidst all this attention. Sparked by Piranesi's renowned engravings of the Column and the perennial tension between classical geometry and picturesque ruin, Stein's research traces-and ultimately reconstructs as architecture-the missing monument, one overlooked by these competing ideals. This book reconstitutes the chiseled, eroding interior of the Column and reclaims its progeny-casts and copies of the original produced over two thousand years. Charting the Column's extraction and its reproduction networks from the marble quarries of Carrara to the plaster diaspora of Paris, Trajan's Hollow proposes a new ethos of scanning and replication, saturating digital technologies with an expansive material awareness to amplify the projective capacity of historical inquiry.