Residential Open Building - More Information

In recent decades tens of thousands of dwellings have been constructed following the basic principles of open building. These projects have frequently developed in relative isolation, with inadequate access to the growing international and cross-disciplinary body of experience and expertise of open building. This book, the result of a CIB Task Group addressing ''Open Building Implementation'', provides a state-of-the-art review of residential open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena.

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Table of contents : What is residential Open Building? Acknowledgments. Part One: A residential Open Building Primer Introduction. Incubators of Open Building. A brief interpretive history of Open Building. Part Two: A Survey of Milestone Projects Case Studies. Part Three: Methods and Projects Technical overview. Methods and systems by level. A survey of infill systems, products and companies. Part Four: Economic and additional factors The economics of Open Building. Additional trends towards Open Building.Part Five: Summary & Conclusion Open Building activity by nation. The future of Open Building. Appendices. Glossary. Index.