Cantilever Architecture

Description

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structures without the need for columns or walls, whether for balconies, stairs, to occupy the air rights of the lot next door, or to build super tall buildings. The book includes 78 built case studies in 22 countries on 5 continents to illustrate various systems and their load carrying mechanisms at different scales. Includes an appendix on cantilevered furniture and more than 240 black and white images.

CONTENTS

Part I: Horizontal Cantilevers

• 1. Cantilevered Furniture 1.1 Cantilever Chairs 1.2 Cantilever Tables
• 2. Cantilevered Building Components 2.1 Cantilevered Stairs 2.2 Cantilevered Balconies 2.3 Cantilevered Canopies
• 3. Cantilevered Buildings 3.1 Cantilevered Proportioning 3.2 Jettying 3.3 Large One-Sided Cantilevers 3.4 Large Two-Sided Cantilevers 3.5 Merged Cantilevers 3.6 Stacked Multiple Cantilevers

Part II: Vertical Cantilevers

• 4. Structural Systems for Tall Buildings 4.1 Interior Structures 4.2 Exterior Structures 4.3 Interior-Exterior-Integrated Structures
• 5. Damping Systems for Tall Buildings 5.1 Passive Damping Systems 5.2 Active Damping Systems
• 6. Integrative Design of Complex-Shaped Tall Buildings 6.1 Aerodynamic Forms 6.2 Twisted Tall Buildings 6.3 Tilted Tall Buildings 6.4 Tapered Tall Buildings 6.5 Freeform Tall Buildings 6.5 Conjoined Tall Buildings.
• Index

266 pages, 120 Line drawings, black and white, 120 Halftones, black and white / 15,5 x 23,5 cm / English