Identity by Design

Authors: Georgia Butina Watson and Ian Bentley
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd., 2007
Size: 26.84 MB
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Contents:
1 Prague:The pursuit and perils of national identity
2 Pleˇcnik’s Ljubljana: The social relevance of a personal vision
3 Mexico: Complexities of culture and landscape
4 The London Underground: A way for all
5 Red Bologna
6 Rossi in Perugia: Designing with layers of history
7 Malaysia: Layering ecology and culture
8 Reinforcing Boston’s Emerald Necklace
9 The beginnings of a synthesis:The responsive environments approach
Conclusions: Pulling the threads together

Intelligent Skins

Authors: Michael Wigginton and Jude Harris

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

Size: 9.1 MB

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Contents:
Preface The origins of this book
Picture acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The environmental context and the design imperative
Chapter 3 Buildings and intelligence: metaphors and models
Chapter 4 The intelligent skin: the deepening metaphor
Chapter 5 Method
Chapter 6 Features
Chapter 7 The future
Chapter 8 The case studies
Case study 1 GSWHeadquarters
Berlin
Case study 2 Debis Building
Berlin
Case study 3 Commerzbank Headquarters
Frankfurt-am-Main
Case study 4 Stadttor (City Gate)
Düsseldorf
Case study 5 GlaxoWellcome House West
Greenford
Case study 6 The Environmental Building
Garston
Case study 7 Helicon
London
Case study 8 Tax Office Extension
Enschede
Case study 9 Headquarters of Gِtz
Würzburg
Case study 10 Phoenix Central Library
Phoenix, Arizona
Case study 11 The Brundtland Centre
Toftlund Sّnerjylland
Case study 12 The Green Building
Dublin
Case study 13 Heliotrop®
Freiburg-im-Breisgau
Case study 14 Villa Vision
Taastrup
Case study 15 Business Promotion Centre
Duisburg
Case study 16 School of Engineering and Manufacture
Leicester
Case study 17 SUVA Insurance Company
Basel
Case study 18 Solar House Freiburg
Freiburg
Case study 19 Design Office for Gartner
Gundelfingen/Donau
Case study 20 TRON– Concept Intelligent House
Tokyo
Case study 21 Super Energy Conservation Building
Tokyo
Case study 22 Occidental Chemical Center
Niagara Falls, New York

Healthy Living Centres - A Guide to Primary Health Care Design

Authors: Geoffrey Purves
Publisher: Architectural Press, First published 2002
Size: 35.99 MB
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Contents:
Chapter 1 An outline review of the issues
Chapter 2 Architecture and medicine: is it art and science or illusion and reality?
Chapter 3 Policy issues
Chapter 4 Design issues
Chapter 5 Financial issues
Chapter 6 Briefing issues
Chapter 7 Measurement of design quality
Chapter 8 Procurement routes
Chapter 9 International trends
Chapter 10 A strategy for the future
Chapter 11 Case studies (see over for details)
Chapter 12 The way forward

ETFE Technology and Design

Authors: Annette LeCuyer

Publisher: Birkhauser, 2008

Size: 46.86 MB

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Contents:
Ian Liddell // Sustaining new technologies
Introduction: Pleasure. Power and Payload

The Pneumatic Imagination: Architectural Ideas and Application

Material Matters: ETFE
Stefan Lehnert II Risk and RAliilhilitv
Soft Structure
The Performative Skin
Environmengery : The Variable Skin
Life Safety
The Communicative Skin
The Climatic Envelop

Ben Morris // ETFE Futures

Environmental Design : An introduction for architects and engineers

Authors: Randall Thomas & Max Fordham & Partners 

Publisher:E & FN Spon, Second edition 1999
Size: 6.46 MB
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Contents:

Part One1 

Strategies

MAX FORDHAM

2 Comfort, health and environmental physics

BILL WATTS

3 Buildings and energy balances

BILL WATTS and RANDALL THOMAS

4 Building planning and design

RANDALL THOMAS

5 Site planning

RANDALL THOMAS

6 Materials and construction

RANDALL THOMAS

7 Energy sources

RAMIRO GODOY

8 Lighting

RANDALL THOMAS

9 Engineering thermal comfort

RANDALL THOMAS

10 Water, waste disposal and appliances

MIKE ENTWISLE and RANDALL THOMAS

Summary

RANDALL THOMAS

Part Two

11 RMC International Headquarters

BART STEVENS

12 Grove Road Primary Schoo

lBILL WATTS

13 Queens Building, De Montfort University

EDITH BLENNERHASSETT

14 The Charles Cryer Studio Theatre

COLIN HAMILTON

15 Sutton House

RICHARD QUINCEY

16 The Environmental Building, Building Research Establishment

RANDALL THOMAS and BART STEVENS

17 The Millennium Centre, Dagenham

RANDALL THOMAS

18 The Bedales Theatre

RANDALL THOMAS

Appendices

A Environmental data and the psychrometric chart

RANDALL THOMAS

B Calculation procedures

RANDALL THOMASC 

Acoustics

RANDALL THOMAS

D Photovoltaics

RANDALL THOMAS

Illustration

Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max

Authors: Darren Brooker
Publisher: Focal Press, Third edition 2008
Size: 14.34 MB
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Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Who this book is for

How to use this book

Tutorials

Software requirements

Part 1 > Theory

Chapter 2 A little light theory

Real world lighting explained

The visible spectrum

Color mixing

Our perception of light

Color temperature

Color balance

The behavior of light

Understanding the qualities of light

Chapter 3 CG lights examined

Lights in CG

Standard lights

Sunlight and Daylight systems

Photometric lights

The anatomy of a CG light

Chapter 4 Understanding shadows

The importance of shadows

The technical side of shadows

Faking it

When to fake

To use shadows or not?

Shadow saturation

Part 2 > Techniques

Chapter 5 Basic lighting techniques

Learning to light

Basic three-point lighting

Key light

Fill light

Backlight

Key-to-fill ratios

Contrast

Tutorial > three-point lighting

Chapter 6 Further lighting techniques

Making light work

Other light types

Area lights

Tutorial > area lights

Arrays

Tutorial > light arrays

Skylights

High Dynamic Range imaging

Tutorial > HDR skylight

Chapter 7 Radiosity techniques

Global illumination

Light distribution

Raytracing

Radiosity

Radiosity workflow

Tutorial > radiosity workflow

Chapter 8 Indoor lighting techniques

Indoor lighting

Outdoor light indoors

Tutorial > radiosity techniques

Tutorial > simulating global illumination

Tutorial > HDR lighting

Artificial lighting

Tutorial > three-point artificial lighting

Chapter 9 Outdoor lighting techniques

The great outdoors

Sunlight

Skylight

Sunlight and skylight together

Tutorial > sunlight and skylight together

Night time

Moonlight

Tutorial > moonlight

Street lighting

Tutorial > outdoor lighting fixtures

Tutorial > neon lighting

Chapter 10 Rendering with mental ray

Physically-based lighting

Tutorial > indirect illumination workflow

Tutorial > Global Illumination

Floating-point images

Tutorial > floating-point images

Tutorial > outdoor lighting

Ambient occlusion

Tutorial > ambient occlusion

Caustics

Tutorial > caustics with mental ray

Rendering options

Chapter 11 Match lighting

Background plates

Lighting reference data

HDR

Match lighting in practice

Match lighting without reference

Tutorial > match lighting

mental ray production shaders

Tutorial > match lighting with mental ray

Chapter 12 Lighting Analysis

Lighting analysis

The Lighting Analysis Assistant

Tutorial > lighting analysis

Chapter 13 Lighting and lens effects

Visual hooks

Inside the lens

Glows

Tutorial > glows

Lens flares

Tutorial > lens flares

Highlights

Tutorial > highlights

Chapter 14 Compositing

Post production

Compositing

Render Elements

Tutorial > Render Elements

Combustion

Tutorial > combustion

Taking compositing further

Part 3 > Tips & tricks

Chapter 15 In production

Working efficiently

The first step

The key

Fills and backlights

Rendering

Revision

Production pipelines

Modeling issues

Texturing issues

More revision

Preparation

Pitching for business

Experimentation

Part 4 > Taking it further

Chapter 16 Composition and drama

Visual storytelling

Composition

Unity

Grouping

Emphasis

Depth

Mood and drama

Positive and negative space

The rule of thirds

Chapter 17 Camerawork and technicalities

The camera in 3D

Technical aspects

Broadcast standards

PAL and NTSC

Aspect ratios

Film formats

Reframing

Overscan

Fields and motion blur

Chapter 18 Looking further

Looking beyond lighting

Brazil

finalRender

Maxwell Render

V-Ray

MAXScript

Plug-in away

Useful websites

Studio websites