Move: Architecture in Motion - Dynamic Components and Elements

by Michael Schumacher, Michael-Marcus Vogt, Oliver Schaeffer

Book Overview

Dynamic components and adaptive elements are becoming increasingly important in contemporary architecture, and not just because of their visual effect. If architects and engineers are engaging more and more with the issue of movement - whether in the form of sun-tracking solar cells, lowerable walls, or intelligently programmed elevators - it's because they are busy exploring responses to three challenges: How can we control and reduce the energy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0077A9RSW
• ISBN13: 9783764399863
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"