Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN: | 9783319903972 3319903977 9783319903965 3319903969 9783319903965 9783319903989 3319903985 9783030080068 3030080064
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 13, 2018).
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Summary: | "The book demonstrates how new houses can be designed to be more sustainable and ergonomic. Specifically, it describes a prototype building that could be constructed in the near future. Responding to some of the poor standards of mass estate housing in the UK and its out-of-date space standards, it contributes towards improving the current status quo by describing a house design, including drawings, that can compete with today's mass housing. The author examines the traditional geometrical reliance on the square in the design of houses and the planning of housing estates and promotes instead the adoption of polygonal forms. This is explained using geometric analysis, diagrams and references to existing housing. These concepts have been developed with reference to technical literature from various companies with one company interested in taking it further. Providing a novel and up-to-date design concept, this book is of value to practitioners and researchers looking to improve the standard of mass housing in the UK. It is also of interest to anyone wishing to build their own house and to manufacturers wanting to move into modern housing technology."--Provided by publisher.
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Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319903965 Printed edition: 9783319903989
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Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-90397-2
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