Constructing Shadows
Pergolas, Pavilions, Tents, Cables, and Plants
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2011
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-3-0346-0714-8 (ISBN)
Description
Trees are ideal sources of shade; where they cannot be used, their function is taken over by tents, pergolas, and pavilions. In the context of global warming, shade-providing construction is becoming an increasingly important building task. In Part One of this book, specialists in the field present the typical forms of shade-providing construction as well as the design approach associated with each. Part Two presents easily consultable overviews of 140 plants that have proven to be effective givers of shade in temperate, subtropical, and tropical zones. Part Three presents thirty built projects by celebrated architects and landscape architects from five continents. These constructions illustrate a wide variety of functions and scales and cover various climatic zones and cultural contexts. All structures are constructionally and systematically analyzed with texts, true-to-scale drawings, and photographs from their foundations to their connections and the shadows they cast.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
100 s/w Zeichnungen, 50 s/w Abbildungen, 200 farbige Abbildungen
50 b/w and 200 col. ill., 100 b/w ld
Dimensions
Height: 30 cm
Width: 24 cm
Weight
1560 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0346-0714-8 (9783034607148)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
11/2012
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€64.95
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Persons
Content
Contents Essays Plants - Shadow Constructive Design of Small Buildings: Handbook Pergolas: Functions, Forms, and Construction Elements Shade-providing Small Buildings in Landscaping and Landscape Architecture Cables in Landscape Architecture: The MFO Park Teaching about Shadows Shade-providing Tents: On the Design and Construction of Lightwight Canvas Structures Plants Overview Plants Clinging Rootlets, Creepers, Twiners, Tendrils, and Scrambling Climbers Projects 1. SAANA / ARUP - Serpentine Galleries Pavillon 2009, Hyde Park, London, GB 2. Peter Walker (PWP) / WernerSobekNewYork - University of Dallas, USA 3. EDAW (neu Design + Planning aecom) - 3 Projekte in Asien/Australien/USA 4. MARTÍNEZ LAPEÑA TORRES ARQUITECTOS - Schattendach in Palma d. M., SP 5. Alan Dempsey & Alvin Huang - AA Projekt, [C]SPACE PAVILION, GB 6. Abel Bainnson Butz - Hudson River Park, NYC 7. Ruedi Baur - Denkmal für Opfer der deutschen Militärjustiz Köln, 8. SL-Rasch + Bradatsch, Special and Lightweight Structures - Solar betriebener Schirm 5m x 5 m, Saudi Arabien. 9. SL-Rasch + Bradatsch, Sail Island in Jeddah, Saudi Arabien 10. SL-Rasch + Bradatsch, Versammlungszelt, Malaysia 11. School of Architecture, Universidad de Talca, Chile - Landmarks, Chile 12. EDSA - Projekt in Acapulco, Mexiko 13. Raderschall & Partner - WestPark Zürich und St. Gallen 14. w+s Landschaftsarchitekten - Pavillon, Reichstagsgelände Nord, Berlin 15. Markus Bieri Landschaftsarchitekt - Innenhof Zentralsitz CSS Versicherung, Luzern 16. Studio 3LHD, Zagreb - Riva Split Waterfront structure 17. S. Gaß, Gitterschale Sindelfingen 18. S. Gaß mit J. Bradatsch, Zelt im Hof des Jugendhauses 'Mitte', Stuttgart 19. Rutishauser Landschaftsarchitekt - Pergola Botanischer Garten, Frauenfeld 20. Turenscape - Dujingyan Square, Chendu und Houtan Park of 2010 Shnaghai Exo, China 21. Localarchitecture, Lausanne - 9 x PAVILIONS, PARC DES RIVES, Neuchatel 22. ASPECT Studios, Melbourne/Sydney Jacaranda Square und Pirrama Park, Australien Biographies Sources and Bibliography