
Lightweight Landscape
Enhancing Design through Minimal Mass Structures
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 23. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXIII, 109 pages
978-3-319-21664-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance landscape. The first part of the book, on lightweight construction, aims to foster the use of membranes within the specific climatic context and in particular considers how lightweight materials and innovative technologies can enrich the quality of temporary spaces. The second part focuses exclusively on landscape, presenting novel approaches in the search for visual lightness and the quest to improve urban spaces. Particular attention is paid to the Italian experience, where the traditional appreciation of brick and stone has limited the scope for use of lightweight structures and membrane materials, often relegating them to a secondary or inappropriate role. The reader will come to appreciate how this attitude demeans a very advanced productive sector and neglects the ancient tradition of temporary architecture.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
136 s/w Abbildungen, 1 farbige Abbildung
XXIII, 109 p. 137 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
219 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-21664-5 (9783319216645)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-21665-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Alessandra Zanelli | Luigi Spinelli | Carol Monticelli
Lightweight Landscape
Enhancing Design through Minimal Mass Structures
E-Book
10/2015
Springer
€53.49
Available for download
Content
Designing with Lightness.- Designing with Membranes.- Lightweight Materials and Environmental Quality Requirements.- High Performance Lightweight Building Envelopes Made of Foils and Textiles.- Small Plus-Energy Buildings, Innovative Technologies.- Membrane Structures Principles, Details and Projects.- The Cultural and Environmental Context.- .Where to Place the Voids.- The Path Between Perception and Design.- Learning from Djemaa el-Fna.