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"With its 80 years of experience in bringing together architecture and engineering Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) remains groundbreaking to this day, particularly in construction of gigantic skyscrapers, the so-called "supertalls". The fourth volume of the DETAIL engineering ser...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Otros Autores: Schittich, Christian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gütersloh : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, 2015.
Colección:Detail engineering ; 4.
Temas:
Structural engineering.
Architectural firms.
Architectural offices.
Technique de la construction.
Agences d'architecture.
structural engineering.
Architectural offices
Architectural firms
Structural engineering
Baukonstruktion
Tragwerk
Baustatik
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION ; Preface ; Past and future
  • reaching new heights ; SIMPLICITY + CLARITY ; Architecture and engineering at SOM
  • in the genetic code ; Informing design ; SCALE + FORM ; Scale and proportion ; Clarity of design
  • giving things a name.
  • Sensory fields, self-reflection and the future Structural design of tall buildings ; Tall building case study
  • Burj Khalifa ; HIERARCHY ; The importance of hierarchy ; Structure as poetry ; Exchange House in detail ; EFFICIENCY + ECONOMY ; Structural art.
  • Constraints spur creativity Optimising design goals ; The economy of construction ; Sustainability ; Integrating discipline and play ; RESEARCH + FUTURE ; Quo vadis
  • megatalls as the focus of the SOM Research Gang ; Structural optimisation
  • developing new design tools.
  • Research timeline PROJECTS + PEOPLE ; Catalogue of projects ; People ; Picture credits.

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