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082 _a690
_bORT
100 _aOrton, Andrew
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245 _aWay we build now : form scale and technique
260 _aLondon
_bSpon Press
_c1988
300 _axiv,530p.
505 _aCONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Building Materials Properties of Materials 1 Masonry 2 Cement and Concrete 4 Metal 9 Wood 13 Plastic 16 Fabric 18 Glass 20 Tables 22 Building Structures 55 Stress and Strain 56 Joints 58 Classification of Building Structures 63 Simply Supported Beams 64 Continuous Beams 69 Ties and Columns 70 Trusses and Reticulated Structures 72 Arches and Cables 74 Frames 76 Floor and Roof Systems 78 Building Systems High Rise Buildings 84 Properties of Surfaces 67 Membrane Structures Structural Form and Scale 96 Load Paths 98 Tables 101 Building Physics 129 Internal Environment 129 Heat Transfer 130 Intermittent Heating and Cooling 133 Climate 135 Heating and Cooling Loads 138 Thermodynamics 140 Air Conditioning 143 Plant Operation 150 Walls and Roofs 154 Condensation 164 Lighting 167 Glare 170 Colour 171 Daylight 172 Artificial Light 175 Sound 177 Sound Absorption 178 Sound Insulation 180 Room Acoustics 185 Fire Safety 189 Compartment Fire 189 Temperature and Duration of Fire 191 Spread of Fire and Smoke 192 Passive Fire Protection 193 Active Fire Protection 197 Fire Precautions in Buildings 198 Properties of Materials in Fire 200 5. Houses and Community Buildings 203 Woolstone Houses, Milton Keynes, England 204 Keldy Castle Forest Cabins, Cropton, Yorkshire, England 208 IBM Exhibition Pavilion, Europe 212 South Poplar Health Centre, London, England 216 Sixth Form College, Alton, Hampshire, England 220 Schulitz House, Beverly Hills, California, USA 224 Marin Tennis Club, San Raphael, California, USA 228 Dune Houses, Atlantic Beach, Florida, USA 231 Beach Bathhouse, Chesterton, Indiana, USA 234 6. Office Buildings 237 TRADA Offices, High Wycombe, England 238 1111 Nineteenth Street NW, Washington DC, USA 241 Chloride Technical Offices & Workshop, Swinton, Manchester, England 244 Havas Conseil Offices, Neuilly, France 247 Banque Beige Offices, London, England 250 Slough Estates House, Slough, England 254 Scottish Mutual House, Leeds, England 258 Mercantile Bank Tower, Kansas City, Missouri, USA 262 Baring Brothers Offices, London, England 266 Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 270 Gateway House, Basingstoke, England 274 Centraal Beheer Offices, Apeldoorn, Holland 280 One Finsbury Avenue, London, England 286 7 Public Buildings 291 St Anne's Church, Fawley Court, Henley-on-Thames, England 292 Kron Apotheke, Stuttgart, West Germany 295 South Holland Centre, Spalding. England 298 St Antony's College, Oxford, England 302 Guilford County Courthouse, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA308 Design Research Building, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 313 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 316 Boston City Hall, 1 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 324 8. Residential Buildings 329 Boulton House, Cambridge, England 330 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky, USA 336 The Harewood Hotel, London, England 339 Elizabeth House, Leicester, England 342 William Stone Building, Cambridge, England 346 Spelman Hails, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 350 9. Highly Serviced Buildings 355 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 356 Biochemical Sciences Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 361 Wellesley College Science Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA 364 Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, England 367 Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center, Brooklyn, USA 372 Nucleus Hospital, 376 Maidstone, England 10 Sports and Storage Buildings 3gi Sankey Warehouse, Epsom, England 382 Penguin Books Warehouse, Harmondsworth, England 386 Anacostia Park Pavilion, Washington DC, USA 390 St Mary's Athletic Facility, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 393, Sports Hall for School of Gymnastics & Sport, Magglingen, Switzerland 396 Sports Centre, Sokoto, Nigeria 400 Eisstadion, Braunlage, West Germany 402 Crosby Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri, USA 406 Space Structure Buildings 411 Liverpool Garden Festival Theatre, Liverpool, England 412 La Lumiere Gymnasium, La Porte, Indiana, USA 417 Wayland School Field House, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA 420 Oasis Swimming Pool, Swindon, England 424 Faulerbad, Freiburg, West Germany 428 Florida Festival, Orlando, Florida USA 432 Baxter Laboratories Dining Hall, Dearfield, Illinois, USA 437 Bundesgartenschau Lattice Shell, Mannheim, West Germany 440 Fleetguard Factory, Quimper, France 446 Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Georgia, USA 451 Leavey Activities Center, Santa Clara, California, USA 454 Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California, USA 458 Calgary Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 462 High Rise Buildings 471 Knights of Columbus Building, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 472 Mercantile Tower, St Louis, Missouri, USA 475 Sabah Foundation Headquarters, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 478 Xerox Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 481 First International Building, Dallas, Texas, USA 484 Texas Commerce Tower, Houston, Texas, USA 488 Metro Dade Center, Miami, Florida, USA 492 First Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 496 One Shell Plaza, Houston, Texas, USA 497 One Mellon Bank Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 502 The Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA 506 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HQ, Hong Kong 510 Appendix 521 Metric and Imperial Units References 525 Bibliography 529
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