Holistic Housing : Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- DETAIL Special Series .
- DETAIL Special Series .
Intro -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 2 POSITIONS -- 2.1 A short history of sustainable architecture -- 2.2 Sustainable design. A statement -- PART 1: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE. BASICS AND STRATEGIES -- 3 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN -- 3.1 Sense and sensibility of sustainable design -- 3.2 Systemic approach -- 3.3 Sustainable design is contextual design and process orientation -- 3.4 Aspects of sustainable design -- Local versus global -- The temporal dimension of architecture -- Identifying the basic parameters (cause and leverage) instead of optimising and minimising the negative effects (end of pipe) -- Low-tech versus high-tech -- Efficiency, consistency, sufficiency -- Doing the right things and doing things right -- 4 THE BUILDING AND ITS CONTEXT -- 4.1 Impact: the building's influence on context -- The global consequences of human building -- The city as a model of the future -- The effect building has on the environment -- Lighting and shadows -- Urban ventilation -- Urban building block: the building as added value for the urban environment -- The water cycle -- 4.2 Building performance: the effects of urban design and the physical -- Site factors and urban structure (macro level) -- Linking the building to the urban structure -- Effects of the urban building structure and ground plan -- 5 ARCHITECTURE AS A PROCESS -- 5.1 Designing holistically -- Integrated design -- The task. Definition of requirements and qualities -- From the idea to the design -- From design to building. Detail design and construction phase -- From completion to use. Putting the building into operation -- 5.2 The building and its life cycle -- The building life cycle: economic and ecological analyses -- Life cycle costing (economic) -- Life cycle assessments -- Construction in the life cycle -- The life cycle of the components. Separable connections and hierarchical construction: design to disassemble -- Demolition, reuse and recycling -- The building in changing times: temporal dimensions -- Short-term flexibility of use: -- Long-term constructional flexibility of use -- Neutrality of use -- 6 ASSESSING SUSTAINABILITY -- 6.1 Use and application possibilities of a sustainability assessment -- Assessing sustainability versus sustainable design -- 6.2 Strategies and methods of sustainability impact assessments -- Tools for urban planning and developement -- Assessment systems for investors and users -- Instruments for planners -- Descriptive assessment systems -- Quantitative assessment systems -- Qualitative assessments methods -- Scope and cost of an assessment -- 6.3 The housing quality barometer - development and methodology -- Development and structure of the criteria matrix -- Overview of criteria -- PART 2: SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN. PROJECTS -- 7 PROJECTS -- 7.1 Keep Thinking - Das Dreieck -- 7.2 Development of a Sustainable Prototype - Minimum Impact House -- 7.3 Solar versus Polar - Sunlighthouse -- 7.4 The Do Tank. - Quinta Monroy -- 7.5 As Grown - Ecohotel in the Orchard -- 7.6 Ephemeral Architecture - Wall House -- 7.7 Outside the White Cube - Townhouse in Landskrona -- 7.8 Recovered - Fehlmann Site -- 7.9 In a Forest - Lakeside House -- 7.10 Palaces instead of Shacks - Isar Stadt Palais -- 7.11 Earth to Earth - Rauch House -- 7.12 Design to Dissemble - Loblolly House -- 7.13 Wooden Box (Holzbox) - Youth and Recreation Camps in Styria -- 7.14 Architecture in Time and Space - Black Box -- 7.15 Architecture for the People! - 20 K Houses -- 7.16 Summary of the Analyses of the Projects -- Table of illustrations and photographs -- Overview of assessment criteria - foldout.