Components and Systems : Modular Construction - Design, Structure, New Technologies /

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by...

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Main Authors: Staib, Gerald (Author), Dörrhöfer, Andreas (Author), Rosenthal, Markus (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser, [2013]
©2008
Series:DETAIL Construction Manuals
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ISBN:9783034615662
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Imprint
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part A History of prefabrication
  • Part B Basic Principles
  • Part C Structural systems
  • Materials in system building
  • Frame systems
  • Panel systems
  • Room modul systems
  • Part D Building envelopes
  • Part E Developments
  • Appendices