Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures

Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-93589-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present, this book illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors.

Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic walls to digitally fabricated curtain walls, each have a material focus section to help you understand their intrinsic properties so that you can decide which will best keep the weather out of your building. Examples from the ancient world, from the Pyramids and the Great Wall, through a range of renowned precedents in modern architecture, illustrate how significant works in the history of architecture explored innovative use of materials – stone, brick, concrete, glass, and aluminum. Along the way, principles of construction from masonry and basic framing through ever more sophisticated envelope systems address classic problems presented by gravity, wind, rain, and sun with studies of lateral forces, building movements and materials that bridge the gaps in between them.

This new edition has been revised to include: 4 new vignettes introducing critical issues of embodied carbon and sustainability considerations for key building materials and over 100 updated illustrations including photographs and drawings.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yu, Mayine L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Konstruktiver Ingenieurbau, Baustatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Load-Bearing Construction  1. Monolithic Bearing Walls: Masonry, Stone, and Concrete 2. Load-Bearing Cavity Walls 3. Light Frame Construction Part 2: Non-Load-bearing Construction  4. Frame and Infill Systems 5. Cladding Systems 6. Curtain Wall

Über Autor(innen)

Mayine L. Yu is a principal with Davis Brody Bond Architects, now Stantec, in New York and was an adjunct associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.