Residential Open Building

by Kendall,Stephen H.

• ISBN13: 9780419238300
• ISBN10: 0419238301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-04
• Publisher: Spon Press

Summary

Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation,' provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.

Author Biography

Jonathan Teicher is Director of Building Community, The American Institute of Architects.

Table of Contents

What is residential Open Building?	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
PART ONE A RESIDENTIAL OPEN BUILDING PRIMER	1	(64)
Introduction	3	(6)
The Open Building movement	3	(1)
Trends toward Open Building	4	(2)
How Open Building works	6	(3)
Incubators of Open Building	9	(18)
The Netherlands	9	(8)
Japan	17	(10)
A brief interpretive history of Open Building	27	(38)
From vernacular precedents to Open Building	27	(2)
From mass housing to Open Building	29	(2)
Key Open Building concepts	31	(10)
Defining an open architecture	41	(8)
Open Building strategies	49	(10)
Summary	59	(6)
References	60	(1)
Additional readings	60	(5)
PART TWO A SURVEY OF MILESTONE PROJECTS	65	(104)
Case studies	67	(102)
Acknowledgments	158	(1)
Additional readings	159	(6)
Realized Open Building and related projects: a chronology	165	(4)
PART THREE METHODS AND PRODUCTS	169	(50)
Technical overview	171	(10)
Changes in networked residential buildings	171	(1)
Open Building approaches compared	172	(9)
Methods and systems by level	181	(14)
Tissue level	181	(1)
Support level	181	(8)
Infill level	189	(6)
A survey of infill systems, products and companies	195	(24)
Acknowledgments	217	(1)
Additional readings	218	(1)
PART FOUR ECONOMIC AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS	219	(22)
The economics of Open Building	221	(11)
Basic economic principles	221	(4)
Tsukuba Method	225	(2)
Buyrent housing concept	227	(5)
Additional trends toward Open Building	232	(9)
Trends in the organizational sphere	232	(6)
Summary	238	(3)
Acknowledgments	239	(1)
Additional readings	239	(2)
PART FIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS	241	(45)
Open Building activity by nation	243	(18)
The Netherlands	243	(5)
Japan	248	(6)
Additional nations	254	(7)
The future of Open Building	261	(25)
Global trends	261	(5)
Building the future	266	(3)
Conclusion	269	(2)
Appendices
A Realized Open Building and related projects by nation	271	(7)
B The SAR Tissue Method	278	(4)
C International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)	282	(4)
Glossary	286	(6)
Index	292