Intelligent skins
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…
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- Full title :Intelligent skins / [Michael Wigginton and Jude Harris].
Summary
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 ne.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Butterworth-Heinemann
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781429483735, 1429483733, 0080495443, 9780080495446, 0750648473, 9780750648479
- oclc:ocn166410053
- LC Classification:TH6021
- Dewey Decimal:696
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Intelligent Skins; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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. GSW Headquarters; Case study 2. Debis Building; Case study 3. Commerzbank Headquarters; Case study 4. Stadttor (City Gate).
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