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Aquatecture: Buildings and cities designed to live and work with water Robert Barker

Aquatecture: Buildings and cities designed to live and work with water By Robert Barker

Aquatecture: Buildings and cities designed to live and work with water by Robert Barker


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Summary

Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of 'designing for water,' using examples from around the world to illustrate methods of utilizing water innovatively, efficiently and safely.

Aquatecture: Buildings and cities designed to live and work with water Summary

Aquatecture: Buildings and cities designed to live and work with water by Robert Barker

Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of 'designing for water,' using examples from around the world to illustrate methods of utilizing water innovatively, efficiently and safely.

About Robert Barker

* Robert Barker is a co-founder of Baca Architects, an award-winning research-led design practice internationally recognised for innovation in flood-resilient and adaptable architecture and spatial planning. Robert is leading the first LifE project of 700 homes in Norwich, Littlehampton, and other projects in Holland and Paris. * Richard Coutts is a co-founder of Baca Architects and the director in charge of the Eiland Veur Lent and Nijmegen (Netherlands), a new peninsula to be created as part of an extensive dike relocation program along the River Waal. Richard is also Director in charge for Canting Basin, the UK's first floating neighbourhood in Scotland.

Table of Contents

1 The Draw of Water 2 Integrated Design with Water (The LifE Approach) 3 Waterspace Planning 4 Neighbourhood scale - ZAC Seine Gare Vitry, Paris 5 Aquatecture 6 Building scale - The Amphibious House, Thames London 7 Water Landscapes 8 Regional scale - Room for the River, Nijmegen Peninsula 9 Water Infrastructure 10 City scale - City of the Future, Shanghai

Additional information

CIN1859465315G
9781859465318
1859465315
Aquatecture: Buildings and cities designed to live and work with water by Robert Barker
Used - Good
Paperback
RIBA Publishing
2016-01-01
320
N/A
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