Innovative Apartment Buildings
Subtitle: New Directions in Sustainable Design
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges GmbH
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9783869050096
Subjects: Apartment houses; Sustainable architecture
Description: Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic, cultural and social aspects that led to the writing of this book. The depletion of non-renewable natural resources and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges that prompted designers to reconsider conceptual approaches in favour of ones that promote a better suitability between buildings and their environments.