Move: Architecture in Motion

Dynamic Components and Elements

Michael Schumacher, Oliver Schaeffer, Michael-Marcus Vogt

Birkhäuser, Basel, 2010

75,00

Designers and builders who seek to use kinetic components face technical and design challenges that aren’t covered by traditional structural theory. For these users, this book presents the technical tools and constructional solutions that will allow them to implement these movements concretely and deploy them functionally within the domains of of “Energy,” “Change of Use,” and “Interaction.” First it lays out the fundamentals and design principles of kinetics in architecture, technology, art, and nature in a structured manner. In a third section, forty movable elements are shown in action, each on a double page – with specially prepared phase drawings and organized by type of movement, including rotation, sliding, folding, and transformation. The international examples from noted architects range from window mechanisms to solar protection and light redirection systems, movable walls and roofs, and movable civil engineering structures.

Artikelnummer: 4060 Categorie:

ISBN: 9783764399863

240 pages, 850 illus., 350 in color, 24 × 29,7 cm, hardcover, English