Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction.
The book covers a brief history of apartment buildings around the world, with a broad outline of different types of apartment blocks. It has a strong focus on the design and actual construction of apartment buildings, especially those utilising mass timber, such as cross-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber. It also features six Case Study chapters from industry-leading practitioners in the area, enabling best practice in architecture and engineering of these new apartment building types to be more widely understood and propagated worldwide.
The fully illustrated, full-colour case studies span the globe and include: Clearwater Quay in Christchurch, New Zealand (Pacific Environments NZ); Wynyard Central East 2 in Auckland, New Zealand (Architectus); Dalton Works in London, UK (Waugh Thistleton Architects); Mjøstårnet, Brumunddal, Norway (Voll Arkitekter); Brock Commons Tallwood House student housing in Vancouver, Canada (Acton Ostry Architects); and Regensbergstrasse apartments in Zurich, Switzerland (Dreicon). The book will be of great interest to architects and architecture students.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
List of contributors
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Guy Marriage
Chapter 2 – Street life
Sara Shabahang and Guy Marriage
Chapter 3 – Looking back
Emina Kristina Petrovic and Guy Marriage
Chapter 4 – Apartment block typologies
Guy Marriage
Chapter 5 – Sunshine, daylight, healthy living and sustainability
Guy Marriage
Chapter 6 – Structure and materiality
Nabil Jose Allaf
Chapter 7 – Sustainable timber future
Guy Marriage
Chapter 8 – Embodied carbon
Emily Newmarch
Chapter 9 – Prefabrication
Pamela Bell
Chapter 10 – Residential Core design
Guy Marriage
Chapter 11 – Apartment planning
Guy Marriage
Chapter 12 – Fire, acoustics and Services
Guy Marriage
Chapter 13 – Facades and cladding
Guy Marriage and Nabil Jose Allaf
Chapter 14 – Balcony – the garden in the sky
Guy Marriage
Chapter 15 – Exporting apartments – lessons in prefab from the North
Joseph Sturm
Chapter 16 – Case Study 1 – Clearwater Quays
Pacific Environments NZ: Roger French and Enovate: Michael Newcombe
Chapter 17 – Case Study 2 – Wynyard Central East 2
Architectus: Patrick Clifford
Chapter 18 – Case Study 3 – Dalston Works
Waugh Thistleton Architects: Kieran Walker and Guy Marriage
Chapter 19 – Case Study 4 – Mjøstårnet
Voll Arkitekter: Øystein Elgsaas
Chapter 20 – Case Study 5 – Brock Commons: Tallwood House
Acton Ostry Architects: Russell Acton and Guy Marriage
Chapter 21 – Case Study 6 – Regensbergstrasse
Dreicon: Joe Kaps and Guy Marriage
List of Figures
List of Tables
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Guy Marriage is an architect, registered in Britain and in New Zealand. Now teaching construction, design and building science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, he gained construction experience from over two decades in practice, with 11 years working in architectural practices in London including Colman Architects, Jestico + Whiles, and Foster + Partners. Returning to New Zealand in 2000, he worked for 7 years at the Studio of Pacific Architecture and was one of the founding directors of First Light Studio in 2012. He has experience in projects that range in scale from small homes, prefabricated houses, and apartment buildings, as well as shopping centres, multi-storey office buildings, and two of the largest Jubilee Line underground railway stations in London. In 2019, he published his first book Tall: The Design and Construction of High-Rise Architecture.
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