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Aquatecture: Buildings Designed to Live and Work with Water book cover

1st Edition

Aquatecture Buildings Designed to Live and Work with Water

By Robert Barker, Richard Coutts Copyright 2019
272 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of ‘designing for water,’ using examples from around the world to illustrate methods of utilizing water innovatively, efficiently and safely. The first part of the book explores the... Read more

1 The Draw of Water  2 Integrated Design with Water (The LifE Approach)  3 Waterspace Planning 4 Neighbourhood scale - ZAC Seine Gare Vitry, Paris  5 Aquatecture  6 Building scale - The Amphibious House, Thames London  7 Water Landscapes  8 Regional scale - Room for the River, Nijmegen Peninsula  9 Water Infrastructure  10 City scale - City of the Future, Shanghai

Biography

Robert Barker is a co-founder of Baca Architects, an award-winning research-led design practice internationally recognised for innovation in flood-resilient and adaptable architecture and spatial planning.

Richard Coutts is a co-founder of Baca Architects and the director in charge of the Eiland Veur Lent and Nijmegen (Netherlands), a new peninsula to be created as part of an extensive dike relocation program along the River Waal.

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