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This book discusses and illustrates the aesthetics, use and shaping of structural materials in the design and construction of a sustainable built environment.

Dickson Michael: Structural Materials
for Sustainable Architecture

Structural Materials for Sustainable Architecture

Imagining Delight, Form and Performance

Part 1: The Nature of Design 1. Introduction 2. Resilience and Sustainability Part 2 3. Quantification of Scale 4. Choice of Structural Material Part 3: Materials and Form 5. The culture and craft of masonry construction 6. Modern vernacular of Natural Building Materials 7. The regrowth of timber engineering and architecture 8. The Versatility and Strength of Steel 9. Plasticity of Concrete: Structural Systems and Forms 10. The lightness of Aluminium 11. Lighter and longer: Fabrics, Foils, Membranes and Cables 12. The transparency of glass Part 4 13. Looking forward

Designers seek moments of creative bliss when everything aligns, stress dissolves, and decisions flow effortlessly. These 'in the zone' experiences keep creatives inspired. This book uncovers the dynamic nature of the design process, shedding light on the various modes of thinking that shape creative work.The design process is often taught through a linear framework: define the problem, do the research, generate ideas, prototype, test, and refine. This structure offers a shared language across disciplines-from architecture to fashion design-providing a roadmap for clarity and progress. However, as any practicing designer knows, the real process is far more fluid. With time and experience, designers learn to embrace the nonlinear nature of their work. Iteration becomes second nature, and space is made for unexpected, creative leaps-spontaneous breakthroughs where new connections emerge. These moments arise from the intersection of conscious and unconscious thought, resulting in surprising and powerful ideas. Within this intersection, the 'beautiful mess' of the designer's natural state emerges. This mess isn't disorder-it's the dynamic interplay between structured methods and spontaneous inspiration, revealing the fascinating tangle of creative thinking. This book celebrates that vibrant, messy process. Through rich photography of everyday studios and thoughtful conversations with artists, designers, and makers from across disciplines, it offers an intimate glimpse into how ideas are formed and refined. Whether you're a student, an emerging creative, or an experienced practitioner, this book invites you to recognize-and embrace-the unique nature of your own design journey, and find inspiration in the glorious chaos of making.

Into the Beautiful Mess

Discovering the Design Process

Then And Now

Ottawa Then and Now invites you to discover the history of Canada's capital city, showcasing over 70 archival images poignantly contrasted with photographs of the same sites today.

Ottawa Then and Now

An Artist's Guide to Painting Outside in Ink and Watercolor

The Big Book of Tiny Painting

Through a series of discussions with practitioners in fields beyond the Humanities, this book explores how key creative writing techniques inspire and inform other disciplines. In turn, this new multidisciplinary view of the mechanics of storytelling sparks new ways of approaching the writing, reading and teaching of fiction in and beyond the writing workshop. A personal voyage of discovery, the book revolves around conversationswith specialists in archaeology, genetics, architecture, medicine, law and botanical science to consider how specific techniques - narrative time, characterisation, fictionalstructures, plotting, point of view and place - inform their work. Through a series of reflections, short fictions, practical exercises and prompts, these case studies then suggest new insights and methods for investigating key writing techniques, which in turn advocate for closer interactions between STEM, the humanities and arts practice. With creative arts subjects increasingly under pressure to justify their significance in contemporary work and life, Jacqueline Yallop makes a case for the re-evaluation of the importance of narrative writing craft in the world beyond personal practiceand student assignment.

Creative Writing Across Disciplines

Fiction in the Field

Monumental

This book presents the first wide-ranging investigation of contemporary architectural replicas as a global phenomenon. Presenting case studies from Dresden's new Altstadt to representations of KhoiSan culture in South Africa, and from the recent wave of revivalism in Turkey to the nostalgia of 'modern traditional architecture' in China - each chapter is written by an expert in each relevant context, interpreting in detail what a particular replica stands for in an accessible way, and revealing how replicas function in a range of cultural contexts, trading on the nuances of local cultures, markets, politics, and nationalisms. These case studies explain how the construction of architectural replicas has, in the first decades of the 21st century, become more widespread and more highly-charged in a time of resurgent populism and nationalism worldwide. Employing selective ideas of the past, replica architectures are used to construct the self-image of states, cultures, organisations or powerful individuals in the present, often operating in service of radically conservative agendas or ideologies. With an introduction showing this wider context to replicas in architectural history, this collection further reveals how architectural traditions - both national and global - get claimed for identity-building projects by nations, cultures, corporations, and individuals, and provides valuable and topical insights for architectural historians as well as those in heritage studies and cultural studies.

Contentious Contemporary Reproductions

Architectural Replicas

Just Sustainabilities

This book seeks to evaluate the design choices we might make in order to invent, redirect, or repair our existing material and digital cultures, infrastructures, and landscapes towards a post carbon future.

Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures

Designing the Just Transition

Advances in Intelligent Energy Systems

Artificial Intelligence for Energy Efficiency

Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering

Digital Informatics, Visualisation and Virtual Reality in the Built Environment explores the interface between people, digital information and the built environment. It showcases, in-depth, the tools and techniques behind sustainable construction management and urban planning. In addition, it provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how digital informatics helps leading professionals make informed decisions. Practical examples will be presented, including: (1) a virtual tunnel boring machine which uses real-time data to safely train personnel while monitoring progress on a complex civil infrastructure project; (2) carrying out risk assessments for modular construction using a gaming environment; and (3) using big data and geographic formation systems (GIS) analytics to better understand the impact of urban waste, bushfires, and the pandemic.

Digital Informatics, Visualisation and Virtual Reality in the Built Environment

Major Issues in International Construction Law

Designing for Kids helps design students and professionals dive deeply into building a child-centered design practice, providing them with the knowledge, skills and tools to create products with a positive impact on child development, learning, play, and well-being.This fully updated second edition incorporates current and emerging childhood research and analysis that impacts the design process. It includes topics such as digital technology and AI, mental health, identity, climate change, sustainability, and children with disabilities. It supports college classes, company onboarding, and professional settings where young people are the end users of products and designed experiences. In addition to insights from professional designers, this edition also includes interviews with child psychologists, and diverse case studies from North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand from various industries and contexts. From these, readers will learn updated design approaches and how incorporate them into their work to create products and services for a global market. This textbook offer readers more than 150 color images, helpful discussion questions, practical frameworks, skill-building assignments, and debate questions that have been tested in conference workshops, colleges, nonprofits, and corporations.It is written for product designers who want to build more play value into toys, furniture, or schools; architects designing regenerative playgrounds, museum exhibits or children's hospitals; and technologists seeking ethical and educational approaches to interactive games and learning systems. Readers will build a strong foundation in designing for and with children, learning how to create developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant designs. This book will provide the skills and foundational understanding of how to design impactful products, services, and experiences that spark joy and support young people to thrive.

Creating for Playing, Learning and Growing

Designing for Kids

Structural Materials for Sustainable Architecture

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