Modern Construction Case Studies: Emerging Innovation in Building Techniques

✍ Scribed by Andrew Watts

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Analyses of complex building-envelopes

In the context of tight budgets, complex geometries, high energy efficiency, and flexible user functions mean that the requirements for technical details, and their execution in modern buildings, are very exacting. Modern Construction Case Studies presents planned, under construction and completed, innovative avant-garde projects – all designed by internationally recognized architectural practices such as Zaha Hadid, BIG, Jean Nouvel, Gensler, Lab Architecture Studio, RMJM Architecture, Nordic Office of Architecture, and others.

The case studies are analyzed in a structured way under technical criteria, using text, photographs, 3D illustrations, and diagrams. They provide inspiration for new approaches that also work for smaller-scale projects.

• The ideal supplement to the Modern Construction Handbook
• Details of complex building envelopes – from the loadbearing structure to the interior fit-out
• Planned, under construction and completed Projects

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Foreword
Scope of this book
Comparison of projects
Current and emerging technologies
Design method and project management
Analysis method and scientific foundations
Design implementation and research method
COMPLEX GEOMETRY
1 Galaxy Soho
2 Evolution Tower
3 Hotel
4 Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre
5 Burjuman Tower
6 Burj Alshaya
INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTION
7 Dance & Music Centre
8 K. Çamlica TV Tower
9 Meixihu IC&A Centre
10 Federation Square
11 New Port Centre
12 City Museum Istanbul
ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
13 Burjuman Apartments
14 KAFD Metro
15 Grand Théatre
16 The Avenues
17 Stone Towers
18 Holland Park School
REFERENCES
Authorship
Index
Further reading