[PDF] Adaptable Design eBook

Author : Peihua Gu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9819958695

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This book provides a comprehensive discussion of Adaptable Design (AD). It covers the conception, method, and application of AD to the real-world product design. AD's benefits are substantial as it upgrades, reuses, remanufactures and recycles products throughout the product lifecycle. It rapidly adapts the existing design in development of new designs. Key elements of AD include rationalized function structures, adaptable product architectures, adaptable interfaces, and adaptability evaluations. The main feature of AD is adaptability in design methods and product applications with general and specific adaptability. AD has also modeling and evaluating adaptabilities.

Author : Robert Schmidt III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317526449

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Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them to be more adaptable, and hence create a more sustainable built environment. The book provides a theoretical foundation counterpointed by the experiences and ideas of those involved in the design and use of buildings. It explains many approaches to designing for change, with lessons from history, and case studies including The Cedar Rapids Public Library, Kentish Town Health Centre and Folkestone Performing Arts Centre, which stretch our thinking beyond the conventional notions of adaptability. The authors reveal the many conditions that make it a complex design phenomenon, by considering the purpose, design and business case of buildings as well as the physical product. Full of summaries, diagrams, reference charts, tables, and photos of exemplar solutions for use as conversational tools or working aids, this book is for any professional or student who wants to research, question, imagine, illustrate - and ultimately design for - adaptation. In addition, further information and resources are available through the Adaptable Futures website www.adaptablefutures.com which includes additional case studies, videos, information about industry events and up-to-the-minute developments.

Author : Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Building, Stormproof
ISBN : 9781523125821

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Abstract: Prepared by the Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate of ASCE Civil infrastructure systems traditionally have been designed for appropriate functionality, durability, and safety for climate and weather extremes during their full-service lives; however, climate scientists inform us that the extremes of climate and weather have altered from historical values in ways difficult to predict or project. Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management, MOP 140, provides guidance for and contributes to the developing or enhancing of methods for infrastructure analysis and design in a world in which risk profiles are changing and can be projected with varying degrees of uncertainty requiring a new design philosophy to meet this challenge. The underlying approaches in this manual of practice (MOP) are based on probabilistic methods for quantitative risk analysis, and the design framework provided focuses on identifying and analyzing low-regret, adaptive strategies to make a project more resilient. Beginning with an overview of the driving forces and hazards associated with a changing climate, subsequent chapters in MOP 140 provide observational methods, illustrative examples, and case studies; estimation of extreme events particularly related to precipitation with guidance on monitoring and measuring methods; flood design criteria and the development of project design flood elevations; computational methods of determining flood loads; adaptive design and adaptive risk management in the context of life-cycle engineering and economics; and climate resilience technologies. MOP 140 will be of interest to engineers, researchers, planners, and other stakeholders charged with adaptive design decisions to achieve infrastructure resilience targets while minimizing life-cycle costs in a changing climate

Author : Robert Schmidt III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317526457

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Adaptable Architecture provides thought-provoking and inquisitive insights into how we can prolong the useful life of buildings by designing them to be more adaptable, and hence create a more sustainable built environment. The book provides a theoretical foundation counterpointed by the experiences and ideas of those involved in the design and use of buildings. It explains many approaches to designing for change, with lessons from history, and case studies including The Cedar Rapids Public Library, Kentish Town Health Centre and Folkestone Performing Arts Centre, which stretch our thinking beyond the conventional notions of adaptability. The authors reveal the many conditions that make it a complex design phenomenon, by considering the purpose, design and business case of buildings as well as the physical product. Full of summaries, diagrams, reference charts, tables, and photos of exemplar solutions for use as conversational tools or working aids, this book is for any professional or student who wants to research, question, imagine, illustrate - and ultimately design for - adaptation. In addition, further information and resources are available through the Adaptable Futures website www.adaptablefutures.com which includes additional case studies, videos, information about industry events and up-to-the-minute developments.

Author : James A. Bostrom
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 1994-05
Category :
ISBN : 0788107682

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Contains both general and technical info. about adaptable housing and is intended for disabled and non-disabled people, builders, developers, managers, architects, product mfrs., gov't. officials, and building code officials. Explains adaptable features as specified in the nat'l. and fed. standards. Provides background info. on the development of adaptable design, and defines and explains adaptable housing. Includes extensive information methods, costs, and examples, especially kitchens and bathrooms. List and sources of available products. Photos and drawings.

Author : Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317500601

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Design Intervention: Toward a More Humane Architecture, first published in 1991, intends to demonstrate that interest in social issues is alive and well in architecture, that there is a small but effective cadre of dedicated professionals who continue to commit themselves to solving social problems, and that architecture is being applied to the alleviation of the social ills of our time. The editors and contributors in this book have all grappled with their own definitions of design innovation, and express in practical and useful ways their ideas for contributing to a better and less needy world through the architecture they describe. This book will be of interest to students of architecture.

Author : Avi Friedman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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"The Adaptable House provides specific design approaches and techniques that facilitate flexible design - both on the inside and out. These principles make it simple to alter a dwelling's layout, demolish partitions or build new ones, upgrade heating systems, and change the locations of staircases."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Xiang Hua Liu
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 3974 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3038260746

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Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering (4th ICMSE 2013), March 30-31, 2013, Dalian, China

Author : Guopeng Li
Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1618969870

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Before discussing the research itself in greater depth, it is beneficial at this stage to introduce the background to the research. To do so, the chapter is divided into four parts. The first part of the chapter summarises terminologies associated with adaptability, and goes on to define and elaborate on the meaning of adaptability in this research study. The second part of this chapter defines mass housing; the development of mass housing and its problems are also illustrated. In the third part, as the key solution for addressing housing occupants’ requirements and accommodating changes, the importance of adaptability in improving overall housing quality, particularly from a social, financial, and environmental point of view, is outlined. The sustainability of adaptability is also discussed. Even though studies of adaptability have been developed structurally, functionally, technically and financially, adaptability still occupies a marginal position due to the production of mass housing. The final part of the chapter rethinks the notion of adaptability for mass housing. Factors of mass housing related to social, financial, technical and design issues and which address adaptability are explored. Lastly, it is revealed that the design aspect of adaptability is chosen as the research focus in this research study.