Building with Water: Concepts Typology Design

✍ Scribed by Zoë Ryan; Chris Zevendingen; Dieter Grau; Zeljka Carol Kekez

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Water als an element in architecture

Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in cities around the world. On the other hand, architecture also had to respond to the threat of floods.
The theme of Building with Water is the use of water in architecture. It presents buildings that explicitly refer to water in their design and form. It establishes a typology of building by the water: residential structures, recreation facilities, industry and infrastructure, buildings for culture and art. The various design parameters are explored in four essays. Subsequently, twenty-two international projects are presented, organized according to their locations by a river, a lake or the sea. The authors’ concern is not to show luxurious buildings in privileged locations but rather presenting projects that seriously grapple with the main criterion of the location—namely, water—in an ecologically sustainable way and respond to it with their design.

Wasser ist seit Jahren ein wichtiges Thema in Architektur und Städtebau. «Building with Water» thematisiert die Verarbeitung von Wasser im architektonischen Entwurf; es werden Bauten vorgestellt, die sich in ihrer Gestaltung und Form ausdrücklich auf Wasser beziehen. Eine Typologie des Bauens am Wasser wird erstellt: Wohnbauten, Verkehrs- und Industriebauten, Bauten für Kultur und Freizeit. Ebenso werden einleitend klassische Beispiele des Bauens am/im/auf dem Wasser gezeigt, wie etwa Château de Chenonceaux an der Loire, Falling Water in Pennsylvania von Frank Lloyd Wright oder das Salk Institute in La Jolla,Kalifornien, von Louis I. Kahn. Geordnet nach ihren Standorten am Fluss, See oder Meer, werden dann etwa 20 internationale Projekte vorgestellt. Es geht den Autoren nicht darum, luxuriöse Bauten an privilegierten Plätzen zu zeigen, sondern Projekte darzustellen, deren Entwurf sich ernsthaft und ökologisch verträglich mit dem Hauptkriterium des Standortes – nämlich Wasser – auseinandersetzt und sich gestalterisch darauf bezieht

The renaissance of water as an element in architecture and urban planning

Numerous stimuli for the practice of design

✦ Table of Contents

BUILDING WITH WATER
Introduction. Fluid Dynamics: Building on Water
Where Water Meets the Land: The Rediscovery of the Waterfront
Towards Flood-Resilient Urban Environments
A Typology of Building on Water: Arts and Culture, Recreation, Living, Industry and Infrastructure
BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS
LAKE
Floating House, Lake Huron, Canada
Whitney Water Purification Facility, New Haven, USA
Aluminium Forest, Houten, the Netherlands
RIVER
Silodam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Maison Flottante, Chatou, France
Traffic Control Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Island in the Mur, Graz, Austria
Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, Germany
Science Centre, Hamburg, Germany
SEA
Ponte Parodi, Genoa, Italy
Harbour Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kastrup Sea Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark
East Beach Café, Littlehampton, UK
Performing Arts Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
National Opera House, Oslo, Norway
Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark
Seoul Commune, Seoul, South Korea
Jellyfish House, San Francisco, USA
Wave Garden, San Francisco, USA
Ex Arsenale Conference Centre, La Maddalena, Italy
WISA Wooden Design Hotel, Helsinki, Finland
Index
Illustration Credits
The Authors
Acknowledgements