Description |
1 online resource (221 pages) |
Contents |
Architecture and the existing fabric; Architecture and time; The built environment and identity; Old and new; The value of the built environment; The planning process; Special features of the planning process; Protective measures and essential repairs; Preparatory investigations; The level of planning detail; Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca, Spain; The participants; The client; The architect; The planning authorities; Overview: Planning permission procedure; Naumburg City Museum, Germany; The contractors; Decision-making and communication; Preparatory investigations |
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Designing with historyDisposition; Definition of appropriate function; Municipal archives in the Church of San Agostin, Valladolid, Spain; Sensitive interventions; Tabourettli Theatre in the old Spalenhof, Basel, Switzerland; Auxiliary constructions; Bank in a 19th century building, Budapest, Hungary; Design strategies; Corrective maintenance; Private residence, Venice, Italy; Medieval house, Bamberg, Germany; Modernisation; Palazzo as museum, Venice, Italy; Adaptation; Loft in an industrial building, Madrid, Spain; Conversion and extension of an industrial building, Göttelborn, Germany |
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Heubach Castle, library and museum, Heubach, Germany |
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Hotel in a monastery church, Maastricht, NetherlandsSingle family houses, Utrecht, Netherlands; Historic office building, Zurich, Switzerland; Replacement; Architectonic expression; Correspondence; Swimming pool, Spexhall Manor, Great Britain; German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany; Unification; Fragmentation; Town hall conversion and extension, Utrecht, Netherlands; Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid, Spain; Junction and delineation; British Museum, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, London, Great Britain; Documentation centre of the former Nazi party rally ground, Germany |
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Recording historic buildingsProperty and geographic details; Documentary evidence and archives; Recording the building as found; Metric building survey; Overview: Precision levels in measured surveys; Building survey; Houses on the Mühlenstrasse, Havelberg, Germany; Building archaeology; Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway; Heubach Castle, Germany; Balbarini townhouse, Pisa, Italy; Bernhard chapel, Owen, Germany; Schminke house, Löbau, Germany; Structural survey; Technical and material investigations; Evaluation and interpretation -- strengths and weaknesses; Design strategies |
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Tyrolean Museum of History, Tyrol Castle, ItalyDetail planning; Prerequisites; Development not demolition; An element-for-element approach; Library, Eichstätt, Germany; Planning on the basis of an accurate measured survey; Principles; Repair not renew; A cumulative process; Naumburg City Museum, Germany; Reclaimed materials; Solutions: two examples; Upgrading the thermal performance of windows; Villa, Buchschlag, Germany; Repairing timber roof structures; Building works; Site facilities; The workshop principle; Protective measures for building elements on site |
Summary |
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to architecture in existing fabric. Contradicting the conventional view that creative design work is the exclusive province of new building design, the authors offer a nuanced account of active and creative strategies for planning, design, and execution |
Notes |
Print version record |
Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Breitling, Stefan.
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ISBN |
3034609442 |
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9783034609449 |
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