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Lightweight Landscape

Enhancing Design through Minimal Mass Structures

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Alessandra Zanelli

    1. Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  2. Luigi Spinelli

    1. Department of DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  3. Carol Monticelli

    1. Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Italy

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  4. Paolo Pedrali

    1. Department of DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  • Examines the merits of lightweight materials and membrane structures in terms of design and the environment
  • Explains how to improve the urban landscape through minimal use of materials and energy
  • Discusses the cultural and environmental context of lightweight landscape design
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

Part of the book sub series: PoliMI SpringerBriefs (BRIEFSPOLIMI)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Lightweight Architecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Designing with Lightness

      • Alessandra Zanelli
      Pages 3-18

    3. Designing with Membranes

      • Paolo Beccarelli
      Pages 19-27

    4. Lightweight Materials and Environmental Quality Requirements

      • Carol Monticelli
      Pages 29-37

    5. High Performance Lightweight Building Envelopes Made of Foils and Textiles

      • Jan M. Cremers
      Pages 39-48

    6. Small Plus-Energy Buildings, Innovative Technologies

      • Jan M. Cremers
      Pages 49-59

    7. Membrane Structures

      • Bernd Stimpfle
      Pages 61-69

  3. Lightweight Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. The Cultural and Environmental Context

      • Luigi Spinelli
      Pages 73-84

    3. …Where to Place the Voids

      • Arantza Ozaeta Cortazar, Álvaro Martin Fidalgo
      Pages 85-93

    4. The Path: Between Perception and Design

      • Paolo Pedrali
      Pages 95-99

    5. Learning from Djemaa el-Fna

      • Alessandro Villari
      Pages 101-109
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This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance landscape. The first part of the book, on lightweight construction, aims to foster the use of membranes within the specific climatic context and in particular considers how lightweight materials and innovative technologies can enrich the quality of temporary spaces. The second part focuses exclusively on landscape, presenting novel approaches in the search for visual lightness and the quest to improve urban spaces. Particular attention is paid to the Italian experience, where the traditional appreciation of brick and stone has limited the scope for use of lightweight structures and membrane materials, often relegating them to a secondary or inappropriate role. The reader will come to appreciate how this attitude demeans a very advanced productive sector and neglects the ancient tradition of temporary architecture.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Alessandra Zanelli

  • Department of DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Luigi Spinelli, Paolo Pedrali

  • Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Italy

    Carol Monticelli

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