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Rescue and Reuse Communities Heritage and Architecture

Rescue and Reuse Communities Heritage and Architecture

Historic buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK their cultural identity and the economy. They can inspire creativity and enterprise bring communities together and make people happier about where they live. This book explores how historic buildings across the UK have been brought back to life through the technical and enabling skills creativity and sensitivity of architects. Exemplar projects explored through richly illustrated case studies demonstrate the value to society of re-using historic buildings and will inspire a new generation of architects to get involved with community heritage projects at a time of great opportunity. Drawing on interviews with architects and their community clients this book explores the challenges that they face how they are overcome and the benefits that follow. | Rescue and Reuse Communities Heritage and Architecture

GBP 44.00
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The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

This book is a call to arms to all architects designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process. This requires far-reaching change in established industry processes. How might this begin? What are the key fundamentals you need to know? How can a more effective model be applied? This book a much-updated second edition of the author’s previous work Building Revolutions answers all your questions. Inspiring but never overwhelming the Handbook to Building a Circular Economy is your must-have companion to helping create a more sustainable future. It explains in simple and practical terms how the principles of a circular economy can be applied to the built environment thereby reducing the resources required to construct fit-out maintain and refurbish buildings. Case studies include: The Forge UK by Landsec The Bath School of Art UK by Grimshaw Urban Mining and Recycling Experimental Unit Switzerland by Werner Sobek NASA Sustainability Base USA by William McDonough + Partners University of East Anglia Enterprise Centre UK by Architype Park 20|20 The Netherlands by William McDonough + Partners.

GBP 34.00
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