BUILDING WITH WATER Concepts, Typology, Design

Description

Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The theme of Building with Water is the use of water in architecture. It presents buildings that explicitly refer to water in their design and form. It establishes a typology of building by the water: residential buildings, transportation and industrial buildings, buildings for culture and leisure. Classic examples of building by, in, or on the water serve as introductions: for example, the Château de Chenonceaux on the Loire, Falling Water in Pennsylvania by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, by Louis I. Kahn. Organized according to their locations by a river, lake, or the sea, some twenty international projects are presented. The authors’ concern is not showing luxurious buildings in privileged locations but rather presenting projects that seriously grapple with the main criterion of the location—namely, water—in an ecologically sustainable way and respond to it with their design.

CONTENTS

Building with Water

• Introduction: Fluid Dynamics: Building on Water
• Dieter Grau, Zeljka Carol Kekez: The Rediscovery of the Waterfront
• Chris Zevenbergen: Towards Flood-Resilient Urban Environments
• A Typology of Building on Water: Arts and Culture, Recreation,Living, Industry and Infrastructure

Building and Projects

• MOS Architects: Floating House, Canada, 2006
• Steven Holl Architects: Whitney Water Purification Facility, USA, 2004
• Abbink X de Haas Architectures: Aluminium Forest, Netherlands, 2000
• MVDRV: Silodam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2002
• Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec: Maison Flottante, France, 2006
• De Zwarte Hond: Traffic Control Centre, Netherlands, 2002
• Acconci Studio: Island in the Mur, Graz, Austria, 2003
• Herzog & de Meuron: Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, Germany, 2011
• OMA: Science Centre, Hamburg, Germany, 2008
• UN Studio: Ponte Parodi, Genoa, Italy, 2001-2009
• BIG and JDS Architects: Harbor Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003
• White Architects: Kastrup Sea Bath, Denmark, 2005
• Heatherwick Studio: East Beach Café, Littlehampton, UK, 2007
• Zaha Hadid Architects: Performing Arts Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2008
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA, 2006
• Snøhetta: National Opera House, Oslo, Norway, 2008
• Henning Larsen: Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005
• Mass Studies: Seoul Commune 2026, Seoul, Korea, 2006
• IwamotoScott Architecture: Jellyfish House, San Francisco, USA, 2006
• Yusuke Obuchi: Wave Garden, San Francisco, USA, 2002
• Stefano Boeri Architetti: Ex Arsenale Conference Centre, La Maddalena, Italy, 2009
• Pieta-Linda Auttila: WISA Wooden Design Hotel, Helsinki, Finland, 2009

160 pages, color ills / 23,5 x 30,5 cm / English