Michael Schumacher & Oliver Schaeffer 
MOVE [PDF ebook] 
Architecture in Motion – Dynamic Components and Elements

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Dynamic components and adaptive elements are becoming increasingly important in contemporary architecture, and not just because of their visual effect. If architects and engineers are engaging more and more with the issue of movement – whether in the form of sun-tracking solar cells, lowerable walls, or intelligently programmed elevators – it’s because they are busy exploring responses to three challenges: How can we control and reduce the energy requirement of buildings? How can we expand the range of possible uses? And how can we represent, illustrate, accommodate, and control dynamic movements in buildings? Designers and builders who seek to use kinetic components face technical and design challenges that aren’t covered by traditional structural theory. For these users, this book presents the technical tools and constructional solutions that will allow them to implement these movements concretely and deploy them functionally within the domains of of ‚Energy, ‚ ‚Change of Use, ‚ and ‚Interaction.‘ First it lays out the fundamentals and design principles of kinetics in architecture, technology, art, and nature in a structured manner. In a third section, forty movable elements are shown in action, each on a double page – with specially prepared phase drawings and organized by type of movement, including rotation, sliding, folding, and transformation. The international examples from noted architects range from window mechanisms to solar protection and light redirection systems, movable walls and roofs, and movable civil engineering structures.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Theory and planning


Movement in space and the movement of objects

Exploring space – Creating space – Dancing space

The dynamics of nature

Motion in photography and film

Robots and space


Movement and construction principles

The principles of designing movement

The principles of mechanics

Scale and complexity of systems

Typologies of movement

Choosing materials

High-strenght and flexible materials

Movable load-bearing structures

Movable connections

Actuators

Measuring, controlling, regulating

Planning guidelines and legal frameworks


Future movement strategies

Harnessing the changing state of matter

Changing colours, forms and properties

Smart Structures

Growth


B Applications and functions


Changing and extending uses and functions

Variable walls

Variable room elements

Opening the building envelope

Mobile and movable building envelopes


Conserving and generating energy

Architecture, movement and energy

The principle of efficiency

Solar gain in context

Factor 1.4 – The potential of movement for solar gain

Daylight direction using moving deflectors


Interaction: Recognizing, controlling and representing movement

Elevators and conveyors

Recognizing and representing movement


C Buildings and building elements – Case studies


Swivel

Rotate

Flap

Slide

Fold

Expand and contract

Gather and roll up

Pneumatic

Über den Autor

Michael Schumacher is a professor of design and construction at Leibniz University Hannover.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 248 ● ISBN 9783034608541 ● Dateigröße 38.4 MB ● Verlag Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH ● Ort Basel/Berlin/Boston ● Erscheinungsjahr 2012 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 6358836 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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