Residential Open Building

✍ Scribed by Stephen Kendall

• Publisher: Spon Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
What is residential Open Building?......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
A RESIDENTIAL OPEN BUILDING PRIMER......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Incubators of Open Building......Page 22
A brief interpretive history of Open Building......Page 40
A SURVEY OF MILESTONE PROJECTS......Page 78
Case studies......Page 80
METHODS AND PRODUCTS......Page 182
Technical overview......Page 184
Methods and systems by level......Page 194
A survey of infill systems, products and companies......Page 208
ECONOMIC AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS......Page 232
The economics of Open Building......Page 234
Additional trends toward Open Building......Page 245
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 254
Open Building activity by nation......Page 256
The future of Open Building......Page 274
Realized Open Building and related projects by nation......Page 284
The SAR Tissue Method......Page 291
International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)......Page 295
Glossary......Page 299
Index......Page 305