Intelligent Skins

 Intelligent Skins
Item #: 225-8473-02
Author: Michael Wigginton
Publisher: Architectural Press
ISBN:0750648473
Format: Paperback
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Intelligent Skins is a valuable tool for Architects, Engineers, and Desginers.
Looking to the future, Intelligent Skins sets out the principles for the design of the intelligent building envelope. It highlights an exciting new approach to the area, where the fabric of the building responds to external changes and internal demands. The prime objective is to control internal environments through a responsive building fabric rather than by energy consuming building services systems. The authors examine the potential for integral intelligence within the fabric of the building and explore the evolution of information technology and smart materials which have allowed a whole new category of design principles to be created.

Primarily for Architects, engineers, surveyors and designers. 184 pp.

Intelligent Skins - Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • The Environmental Context and the Design Imperative
  • Buildings and Intelligence: metaphors and models
  • The Intelligent Skin: the deepening metaphor
  • Method
  • Features
  • The future
  • The Case Studies
  • GSW Headquarters
  • Debis Building
  • Commerzbank Headquarters
  • Stadttor (City Gate)
  • GlaxoWellcome House West
  • The Environmental Building
  • Helicon
  • Tax Office Extension
  • Headquarters of Gotz
  • Phoenix Central Library
  • The Bruntland Centre
  • The Green Building
  • Heliotrop
  • Villa Vision
  • Business Promotion Centre
  • School of Engineering and Manufacture
  • SUVA Insurance Company
  • Solar House Freiburg
  • Design Office for Gartner
  • TRON-Concept Intelligent House
  • Super Energy Conservation Building
  • Occidental Chemical Centre
  • Bibliography
  • Definitions
  • Index
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