Basic Interior Architecture: Context + Environment

✍ Scribed by Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone

• Publisher: Ava Pub Sa
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Series: Basics, the Ava Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Basics Interior Architecture 02: Context & Environment proposes a method of design based on the interpretation, evaluation and utilization of physical factors, such as light and orientation, the contextual issues of the urban form and the subject of sustainability. It examines the ways each of these factors influences the form of the interior.

The text is supported by detailed studies of contemporary work, alongside activities and resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
How to get the most out of this book
The design process
Introduction
Properties of the existing site
Specific site issues
Analysis of the context
Analysis of the environment
Sustainability issues
Context and the interior
Introduction
Location
History + narrative
External connections
Threshold
Visual connections
Movement
Environment and the interior
Introduction
Climate
Light
Temperature
Orientation
View/aspect
Materials
Sustainability and the existing interior
Introduction
Environmental awareness
Resources
Weather
Recycling
Found object
Occupation
Sustainability and the new interior
Introduction
Environmental awareness
Resources
Weather
Recycling
Found object
Occupation
Elements that control space
Introduction
Exterior control
Interior control
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Back Cover