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Components and Systems: Modular Construction – Design, Structure, New Technologies

✍ Scribed by Gerald Staib; Andreas Dörrhöfer; Markus Rosenthal


Publisher
Birkhäuser
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Leaves
240
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Building efficiently with systems

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London World’s Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood.

Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one other will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future.

The volume Components and Systems offers an in-depth and clearly organized presentation of the various types of precast building components – from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems, and skeleton and panel construction all the way to spatial cell constructions. The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs.

Discussions of transporting and assembling the various systems round off the topic and make this book an indispensable practical companion.

Seit jeher werden in der Architektur auf möglichst wenige, gleiche Elemente reduzierte Bausysteme verwendet, um möglichst schnell, effizient und ökonomisch ein Bauwerk errichten oder auch abbauen und verändern zu können. Man denke an die Architektur der Nomaden, den Kristallpalast, der 1851 anlässlich der in London stattfindenden Weltausstellung von dem Architekten John Paxton entworfen wurde, oder die modernen Bausysteme des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in Stahl, Beton oder Holz.

Elementierte, vorgefertigte, für viele Kombinationen anpassungsfähige und untereinander kombinierbare Systeme werden zukünftig, gekoppelt mit modernen digitalen Planungs- und Produktionsmethoden, einen immer wichtigeren Aspekt in der Architektur darstellen.

Der neue Band Elemente und Systeme zeigt fundiert und übersichtlich die verschiedenen Arten vorgefertigter Bauteile auf – von Halbfabrikaten über das Bauen mit Komponenten, offenen und geschlossenen Systemen, Skelett- und Paneelbauweisen bis zu Raumzellenkonstruktionen. Ergänzt werden die Systeme durch detaillierte Zeichnungen und Farbfotos. Transport und Montage der verschiedenen Systeme runden das Thema ab und machen dieses Buch in der Praxis unverzichtbar.

  • Detailed descriptions of all important construction systems
  • Presents digital planning and production methods and describes their future development
  • Examples show how modules can be used to build economically

✦ Table of Contents


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Preface
Introduction
Part A History of prefabrication
Nomads and settled dwellers
Brickwork
Stone
Timber
The military and colonial expansion
Iron - the first systems
Prefabricated concrete construction
Rationalisation, serial production, type standardisation and mass housing construction
The prefabricated house - the modular building system
Large span structural systems
Mega-structures and visions
Industrial fabrication - “synonym for progress”
Open structures
Part B Fundamentals
Industrial prefabrication
Site prefabrication and mobile production plants
Building methods
Elements
Type standardisation
System - building system
Closed systems
Modular building systems
Open systems
Semi-finished elements
Module
Grid
Dimensional coordination
Geometrical positioning of structural and fit-out elements
Transport
Assembly
Jointing
Tolerances
Part C Structural systems
Materials in system building
Steel
Timber
Concrete
Frame systems
Steel frame systems
Timber frame systems
Concrete frame systems
Built examples in detail
Temporary House, Paris (F)
House, Rotenburg (D)
House, Phoenix (USA)
Demonstration house, Tosu-City (J)
House, Sakurajosui (J)
Extension, Preding (A)
House, Andelsbuch (A)
House, Gams (CH)
Fashion center, Fukuoka (J)
Universitiy institute, Grenoble (F)
Housing and office block, Kassel (D)
Panel systems
Building with steel panels
Building with timber panels
Building with concrete panels
Building with masonry panels and brickwork elements
Built examples in detail
House, Sumvitg (CH)
House, Dalaas (A)
Weekend house, Tokyo (J)
Weekend house, Northport (USA)
House, Munchenbuchsee (CH)
Carpentry works, Feldkirch (A)
Technology centre, Munich (D)
Advertising agency, Munich (D)
Winery, Flasch (CH)
Hotel management and catering school, Nivilliers (F)
Room module systems
Steel room module systems
Timber room module systems
Concrete room module systems
Built examples in detail
Office block, Fellbach (D)
Residential and commercial block, Rathenow (D)
Office building, Munich (D)
Tomihiro Art Museum, Azuma (J)
Pavilion, Venice (I)
Loft, New York (USA)
Cafe, Helsinki (FIN)
Hotel extension, Bezau (A)
Prefabricated house from Denmark (DK)
Transportable living unit (D)
Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo (J)
Part D Building envelopes
Structural facades
Non-structural facades
Glass facade systems
Multi-layer glass facade and window systems
Metal facade systems
Timber facade systems
Concrete facade systems
Brickwork facade systems
Natural stonework facade systems
Plastic facade systems
Glazed grid shells
Changes in the planning process
Glazed single-skin steel grid shells
Built examples in detail
Westhafen Tower, Frankfurt/ Main (D)
Office block, London (GB)
Uptown Munich (D)
Hotel, Tokyo (J)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA)
Part E Developments
From industrial mass production to customised prefabrication
Computer-assisted design
Computer-assisted production processes
Construction robots
User-specific customisation
Digital construction systems
Appendices
Authors
Statutory instruments, directives, standards
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Index of persons
Index


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