Designing Better Building
Quality and Value in the Built Environment
Published on 4. December 2003
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-0-415-31525-8 (ISBN)
Description
Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples. Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
40 s/w Abbildungen, 116 s/w Zeichnungen
116 Line drawings, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1133 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-31525-8 (9780415315258)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Person
Sebastian Macmillan
Content
Chapter 1 Design as a value generator, Sebastian Macmillan; Part 1 The perspective of clients; Chapter 2 Clients and quality, Tony Pollington; Chapter 3 Learning more from what we build, Bill Bordass; Chapter 4 A client's perspective on the value of good design, Dickon Robinson; Chapter 5 The long-term costs of owning and using buildings, Raymond Evans, Richard Haryott, Norman Haste, Alan Jones; Part 2 Case studies of added value; Chapter 6 Measuring value or only cost, Jon Rouse; Chapter 7 Measuring and improving functionality and performance, Terry Wyatt; Chapter 8 Design quality in new schools, Richard Feilden; Chapter 9 Assessing benefits in the health sector, Bryan Lawson; Chapter 10 Making special places for health care, Susan Francis; Chapter 11 Adding value through better urban design, Matthew Carmona; Part 3 Delivering better buildings; Chapter 12 Design quality needs conscious values, Giles Oliver; Chapter 13 Flexibility and adaptability, Adrian Leaman, Bill Bordass; Chapter 14 Managing design and construction, Peter Trebilcock; Part 4 Measuring quality and value; Chapter 15 Inclusive maps, Sunand Prasad; Chapter 16 Achieving quality in building design by intention, Michael Dickson; Chapter 17 Building indicators of design quality, Jennifer Whyte, David Gann, Ammon Salter; Chapter 18 Housing quality indicators in practice, Paul Wheeler;