Prefab Prototypes: Site-specific Design for Offsite Construction

Book Description

Prefabricated construction is a hot topic in architecture these days, and for good reason. Prospective homebuilders around the world are gravitating to prefab as an environ-mentally responsible and cost-effective way to achieve that holiest of grails: an affordable, well-designed house. If you're hoping to jump onto this bandwagon or are just interested in what prefab building really entails, Prefab Prototypes is required reading. While other prefab books on the market show what can be done, dangling pretty pictures of affordable homes before your starry eyes, Prefab Prototypes takes you to the next step it shows you how.

Architects Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson have been working with prefab buildings for more than fifteen years. With Prefab Prototypes, they break prefab down into six systems, from most flexible to most complicated panelized wood framing, sandwich paneling, steel framing, timber framing, concrete systems, and modular systems. Each chapter delves into the benefits and drawbacks of its respective method, and features detailed plans, sections, and photographs of projects they've completed that use each of these systems. The resulting book is both a lush depiction of their prefab output as well as an in-depth analysis that will prepare you for taking the plunge into prefab building. If you're familiar with the prefab trend and want to graduate to the next level, Prefab Prototypes is your guide.

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Craft and Cordination.......2007-05-07

The craft of this book is as enhancing as many other that have won awards over the past decades. I personally have been trained to view things at the tectonic level and the technical pages coordinate wonderfully with the graphic pages. The Andersons have a very nice way of depicting there key elements within each project.

If you're looking for some precedents of Pre-Fabrication projects that literally are site specific, modular, green and even custom this is a perfect book and you will be very happy with your investment. From the choice of colors to how they label the diagrams makes understanding the project very nice.

Good job and thanks

Beautiful and Clear.......2007-02-16

This book goes above and beyond the typical prefab picture book. The images are not only compelling but are informative in a way that brings clarity to someone who wants to have a better understanding of how prefabrication actually works. The Andreson's passion for design, experimentation, and progress is truly inspiring. As a young professional it is good to see a smaller firm doing interesting work. The book is very detailed, and provides clear diagrams of connections and materials. You can see very easily how it all comes together. The one thing I would have liked to know more about is (on a project by project basis) how exactly the prefabrication process takes place. It is not clear how the architect and prefabricators interact as far as collaborating on a set of documents that gets the building or project built. Perhaps that is thier proprietary secret, or perhaps it is too boring for a handsome architecture book. You can only put so much information in one book, and this one is filled to the brim.

Drawings good enough to eat........2007-01-25

This book is gorgeous. Excellently written with amazing axonometric drawings of provocative projects. In a word, the drawings are luscious. It's no wonder these guys are winning competitions left and right.

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Watercolor Painting Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide With Drawing Templates : Includes 20 Projects

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For anyone who's ever wanted to paint watercolor but lacked the expertise and practical know-how, Watercolor Painting Made Easy provides them with the basic instruction they need to paint with ease.

Featuring progressive exercises consistent with training from professional painters, this practical guide begins with basic exercises--accompanied with traceable patterns--that focus on mixing color and brush stroke applications. Ensuing exercises present the fundamentals of basic composition and drawing, and the varieties of color use and their applications.

Using practical, easy-to-follow exercises and proven techniques, Watercolor Painting Made Easy will help readers build their artistic confidence while providing a foundation for their later work.

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TV Scenic Design is a comprehensive resource for aspiring and practicing set designers. Summarizing the principles and practices of scenic design, it details design approaches, structures, and staging methods.

TV Scenic Design is a comprehensive resource for aspiring and practicing set designers. Summarizing the principles and practices of scenic design, it details design approaches, structures, and staging methods.

The information contained in the book can be applied to a variety of design situations, from campus or network TV studios, to exhibitions, audio-visual presentations or window displays.

Whatever the scale, space or budget, the methods described in TV Scenic Design will ensure professional results. Now expanded to cover 'virtual' set design, this new edition continues to be an invaluable aid to anyone involved in creating effective sets.

Contents:
The background of design * The basics of design organization * Scenic construction * Staging techniques * Staging practices * Shoestring staging * Scenic effect * Electronic reality * Scenic operation * The designer on location * Controlling the tone and color * Lighting and the designer * glossary * Index

Gerald Millerson's books on television and video have been acknowledged as among the best ever published. His other titles for Focal Press are Video Production Handbook, The Technique of Television Production, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film and, in the Media Manual series, Effective TV Production and Video Camera Techniques.

an up to date reference written for today's TV scenic designer
includes a new chapter on VIRTUAL SET technology
updates to sections include new illustrations to help understanding of the subject

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You've been here before.

Every night, in fact, you visit this Realm. While you dream, your Dreamscape floats in the clear, infinite ocean that is the Periphery, Hod's borderlands. But there's more to Hod than the Periphery. Much more.

Break free of your Panorama, travel to the Garden of Earthly Delights, visit the First World, enter the sanctuary paradise called Shamabla, or discover the vast worlds coma victims like Otis Kline build within their minds. And if you feel really adventurous, explore the Sammael Gate, where the Mad Gods' Tainted minions edge their way into mankind's reality. If you dare . . .

The Book of Hod is a supplement for the WitchCraft roleplaying game. In it, you will find:
• A new Character Type: the Greater Gifted
• Details on three new Associations-the Ghost Dancers, the Society of Assassins, the Enlightened Masters-and two new Solitaire Groups-the Wizards of Oz and the Apoanu Apyabaiba
• An overview of Hod's Realms-Periphery, First World, Garden of Earthly Delights, the Domain of Morpheus, Plane of Ideas, Akasha, Shambala, Coma Kingdoms and the Wastelands.
• New Metaphysics including Baraka Sabil, Abhinja and Shamanism
• Background on the denizens of the Dream Realms-Nature Spirits, Ethereals, Morpheus, and even the Archangel Dumah.

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This digital document is an article from Coatings World, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1528 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 2003 global trade association directory.(Directory)
Publication: Coatings World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Rodman Publications, Inc.
Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Page: 38(4)

Article Type: Directory

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2004 global trade association directory.(Directory): An article from: Coatings World

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2004 global trade association directory.(Directory): An article from: Coatings World

Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Digital