Integrated Buildings – The systems basis of architecture (KTE0087)

Integrated Buildings – The systems basis of architecture

Contents

PART I: METHODS

Chapter 1: The Idea of Integration

Hardware: integration among building systems; software: integration in the design process; philosophical digression: integration and the progress of technology; framework of discussion.

Chapter 2: The Systems Basis of Architecture

Systems thinking; architectural systems; developments in systems architecture: precepts and trends.

Chapter 3: Integrated Building Systems.

Modes of integration: physical, visual, and performance; integrated systems: envelope, structural, mechanical, interior, and site; integration potentials.

Chapter 4: The Architecture of Integration

The example of the Pacific Museum of Flight; program: client, code, and other constraints; intention: architectural ambition; critical technical issues: inherent, contextual, and intentional; the use of precedent; appropriate systems: structure, envelope,  echanical, interior, and site; beneficial integrations.

PART II: CASE STUDIES

Building database; timeline.

Chapter 5: Laboratories

Typology overview; Richards Medical Research Building; Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Schlumberger Research Laboratory; PA Technology Laboratory;Wallace Earth Sciences Laboratory.

Chapter 6: Offices

Typology overview; John Deere Headquarters; Willis Faber Dumas Insurance Headquarters; Briarcliff House; Lockheed Building 157.

Chapter 7: Airport Terminals

Typology overview; Dulles International; Stansted International; United Airlines Terminal at O’Hare; Kansai International.

Chapter 8: Pavilions

Typology overview; Munich Olympic Stadium; Insitut du Monde Arabe; Linz Design Center; British Pavilion, Expo 92.

Chapter 9: Residential Architecture

Typology overview; The Eames House and Studio;Magney House; Experimental House at Almere; Two-Family House at Pullach.

Chapter 10: High Tech Architecture

Typology overview; Centre Georges Pompidou; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts; Lloyd’s of London; Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

Chapter 11: Green Architecture

Typology overview; The Gregory Bateson Building; NMB Bank; Emerald People’s Utility District Headquarters; Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies.

Bibliography