Adaptable House Designing Homes for Change

Name: Adaptable House Designing Homes for Change
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ISBN: 9780071377461

ISBN-10: 0071377468

ISBN-13: 9780071377461

Edition: 2002

Authors: Avi Friedman

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Author Avi Friedman believes that rather than being unchangeable, physical environments should be designed and constructed to easily adjust to the evolving lifestyle of their inhabitants. A home, he contends, should be structurally flexible enough to adapt to changes such as children "leaving the nest," elderly relatives moving in, or the need for home office space. Written by an internationally recognized flexible housing advocate, The Adaptable House provides specific design approaches and techniques that facilitate flexible design--both on the inside and outside--making it simple to alter a dwelling layout, demolish partitions or build new ones, upgrade heating systems, change the…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 6/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 271
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

AVI FRIEDMAN, PhD, is the cofounder and Director of McGill University's Affordable Homes Program in the School of Architecture. He has devoted his career to the study of the design and construction of affordable homes and communities, both as a practicing designer and an academic. His work in education and design has been recognized by the Progressive Architecture Research Award, the Manning Innovation Award for Innovation, the United Nations World Habitat Award, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Creative Achievement Award.

Preface
Acknowledgments
What Is Adaptability?
Roots and Evolution
Constructing for Change
Volume, Envelope, and Systems
Interior Space and Utilities
Projects
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Project Credits
Index
About the Author
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