Building Design

This is a step-by-step guide to house building and 32 additional pages are packed with valuable information, with extra 100 'show me how' drawings, over 660 in total. It is the easiest to comprehend building text in Australia. This book divides residential construction into four main types - brick veneer, timber or steel frame, cavity brick and concrete block.

A practical guide for renovations and alterations in line with the building code of Australia. Trade methods and hints described and covers most popular renovations and alterations around the home.

"Allan Staines' manuals have become classic workhorses for apprentices, builders, and owner builders in Australia for many years. This new edition brings the illustrations and text right up to date with the latest methods applied across Australia." Back cover.

Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future buildings are made. Wood is a truly renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if its growth and harvest are sustainably managed. Recent technological advancements in engineering allow the use of timber for the construction of multi-story structures, turning our buildings into carbon sinks rather than becoming sources for CO2-emissions.

The objective of this book is to provide you with extensive knowledge of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2019 From Zero to Hero is an ideal reference guide, unlike tutorial-oriented books where specific information is hard to found. This book helps you become an AutoCAD expert and has been fully updated This indispensable resource teaches AutoCAD essentials using concise explanations, focused examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects. Introduces you to the basics of the interface and drafting tools Details how to effectively use hatches, fields, and tables Covers attributes, dynamic blocks, curves, and geometric constraints Explores 3D modeling and imaging. Discusses customization and integration.

This book is the most comprehensive book you will find on AutoCAD 2018 - 2D Drafting. Covering all of the 2D concepts, it uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion disc to set up drawing exercises and projects and see all of the book's figures in color. AutoCAD 2018 Beginning and Intermediateincludes over 100 exercises or "mini-workshops," that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of the workshops will simulate the creation of three projects (architectural and mechanical) from beginning to end, without overlooking any of the basic commands and functions in AutoCAD 2018.

Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2022 is designed for users completely new to Autodesk Revit. This text takes a project based approach to learning Autodesk Revit's architectural tools in which you develop a single family residence all the way to photorealistic renderings like the one on the cover. Each book also includes access to extensive video training designed to further help you master Autodesk Revit.

Covering all of the major techniques, this book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools for this popular application. Use the companion files to set up drawing exercises and projects and to see all of the book's figures. Revit 2025 Architecture includes over 50 "mini-workshops" that complete small projects from concept through actual plotting. Solving all of these workshops will help to master Revit Architecture from beginning to end, without overlooking any of the basic commands and functions. Companion files available for downloading with projects from the book. FEATURES Uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad drawing and editing tools Includes over 50 "mini-workshops" and hundreds of figures that complete small projects Helps you to prepare for the Revit Architecture Certified Professional exam Exercises and projects included for use as a textbook Companion files available for downloading with projects from the book. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction to Revit 2025. 2. How to Draw and Modify in Revit. 3. Project Preparation. 4. All You Need to Know about Walls. 5. Inserting Doors and Windows. 6. Creating and Controlling Curtain Walls. 7. Creating Floors. 8. Creating Roofs. 9. Components & Ceiling. 10. Creating Stairs, Ramps, and Railings. 11. Creating and Manipulating Views. 12. Annotation and Legends. 13. Visualize in Revit and Printing. 14. Creating Schedules. 15. Project Phasing, Design Options, and Path of Travel. 16. Toposurfaces in Revit. 17. Creating Rooms and Areas. 18. Tagging and Detailing. 19. Creating Groups and Revit Links. 20. Importing and Exporting Files in Revit. 21. Creating Masses in Revit. 22. Customizing Walls, Roofs, Floors, & Compound Ceilings. 23. Creating Families in Revit. 24. Customizing Doors, Windows, and Railing Families. 25. Worksets and Shared Views. Index.

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies, it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects.

The imperative to reduce our carbon footprint and focus on renewable energy is having a profound impact on our daily lives and the way we think about living spaces. Surveying some of the world's most innovative off grid homes, Off the Grid reveals the creative architecture and cutting edge technologies that are redefining where and how we live enabling us to escape to some of the most extraordinary and secluded natural environments on the planet.Dominic Bradbury tells the story of how innovative architects have made everyday living in the most wild and remote locations of the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia not only feasible, as all of the homes featured are largely self-sustaining in terms of energy, water, and in some cases food, but also a rewarding and tempting reality.

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health based and social background for developing multi generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, this book inform sand inspires the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing, and is an essential text for architecture practitioners, students, and community groups.

A survey of houses designed by Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai of EYRC Architects, an award-winning firm whose modernist approach is infused with deep engagement with the vernacular. Recipient of the 2015 Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, EYRC Architects is internationally recognized for elegant design in a modernist spirit. Residential designs are at the heart of the practice, which now encompasses commercial and institutional projects. Sixteen houses are presented in the book, the majority in Southern California and others near San Francisco and Houston.

Residential Construction Details is explores a range of residential construction methods, based on US standards. The book is packed full of over 150 construction details in 2D, and 140 construction details in 3D.

This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Australian life and to express an emerging, distinctive, and, eventually, confident Australian identity.

Systematically structured and prepared with the student in mind, the book conveys in one volume the necessary basic technical building construction knowledge to enable readers to implement a wide range of designs. For this reason, over the last 14 years, it has developed into an indispensable information and reference handbook, not only for students and teachers, but also for architects.

The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings. Including contributors from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and South Africa..

All students with a budding interest in architectural design will value this book for its solid foundational orientation and instruction. Mo Zell introduces readers to architecture's visual language, showing them how to think spatially and getting them started in architectural drawing with a series of instructional tutorials. Using three-dimensional design problems, she coaches students through the fundamentals of proportion and scale, space and volume, path and place and materials and textures.

This book illustrates the strength of the country's shift from British-influenced Georgian-style homes to more indigenous structures attuned to the land a movement led by Australian architects such as Glenn Murcutt, Richard Leplastrier, and Gabriel Poole in the 1970s. Witness a range of new houses that grapple with the locales in which they are built. Up north, down south, and on the coast, from small and low-budget to multimillion-dollar dwellings, the focus is on the use of raw materials, energy efficiency, adaptable spaces, and embrace of the great outdoors for which the country is known.

The book features the evolution of the practice. From private residences to small offices, hotels and religious buildings, the selected works illustrate an attempt to create feel good spaces that are responsive to the tropical climate. Blurring Boundaries is evidence of a passionate desire to explore ‘in between’ spaces in the tropics. It also demonstrates the firm’s absorption of global influences, without losing sensitivity to the local environment and social context.