Tag: Buildings

Disrupting Buildings Digitalisation and the Transformation of Deep Renovation


Free Download Disrupting Buildings: Digitalisation and the Transformation of Deep Renovation by Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati, Mohamad Kassem, Stelios Krinidis, Jennifer Kennedy
English PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 187 Pages | ISBN : 3031323084 | 7.6 MB
The world’s extant building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, buildings and construction accounted for 36% of global final energy consumption and 37% of energy related CO2 emissions. The EU estimates that up to 75% of the EU’s existing building stock has poor energy performance, 85-95% of which will still be in use in 2050.

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Building Services and Energy Efficient Buildings


Free Download Building Services and Energy Efficient Buildings
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658412720 | 646 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 93 MB
dabei konzentriert und komprimiert auf die für Architekten und Bauingenieure relevanten Sachverhalte und Zusammenhänge. Komplett neu gestaltet wurde der umfangreiche Abbildungsteil mit hochwertigen Zeichnungen zur bildhaften Kommentierung des Textes. Um im Technischen Ausbau mit der technologischen Entwicklung, den steigenden Komfortansprüchen und den Erfordernissen eines wirtschaftlichen und umweltfreundlichen Umgangs mit der Energie Schritt zu halten, ist der "Wellpott/

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Rural Settlement Relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age


Free Download Dave Cowley, Manuel Fernández-Götz, Tanja Romankiewicz, "Rural Settlement: Relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age"
English | 2019 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 9088908184, 9088908192 | PDF | 42,6 mb
The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a ‘rural’ context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching ‘rurality’ is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there is a need to reincorporate ‘rural life’ or rurality into these discussions of how people lived.

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Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century Buildings and Society in the Modern Age


Free Download Edward Gillin, "Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Buildings and Society in the Modern Age"
English | ISBN: 1350045942 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of ‘experience’. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user – rather than simply on the intentions of the designer – the book shows that new and important insights can be brought to our understanding of Victorian architecture.

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Draw Like an Artist 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms


Free Download Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms: Step-by-Step Realistic Line Drawing – A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists and Designers by David Drazil
English | August 10, 2021 | ISBN: 0760370761 | 121 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers.

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