Rehabilitación

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...

Los proyectos y las obras de vivienda para la clase media son innumerables en todas las ciudades del país, pero no así las investigaciones sobre la arquitectura de la vivienda para la llamada clase media. Es una categoría discutida y discutible, tanto por la cuestión de las clases sociales y su división según su poder económico, como en la temática de arquitectura para cualquier sector social, ya que - como exponen algunos historiadores y teóricos- no se puede compatibilizar arquitectura y vivienda. Ante estos interrogantes y la necesidad que surge del estudio de la vivienda para las ...

Learn the standards of effective design and installation for building systems using the performance requirements set by the industry-leading source for standards: the International Code Council?. Now available in Spanish to recognize an increasingly diverse workforce, the 2003 International Building Code - Spanish Edition offers users comprehensive coverage and time-tested safety concepts so they are well-prepared for successful, safe work in the field. In addition, structural as well as fire- and life-safety provisions are also included and span a range of topics, including means of egress,...

Desde hace años se asiste al retorno de los modos de la arquitectura moderna, tras cuarenta años de ajetreo doctrinal. Durante este tiempo, con el pretexto de corregir las desviaciones de una modernidad mítica y, a menudo, mal entendida, se consiguió confundir su auténtico sentido y acabar con un modo de concebir intenso y relativamente generalizado. Las posiciones de enmienda se fundamentaban, por lo común, en argumentaciones morales, cuando no meramente costumbristas: en ningún caso fueron capaces de proponer un sistema visual alternativo al que fecundó la mejor arquitectura del...

Taking as a starting point a design for a mobile theater made at the Architectural Association of London between 1970 and1971 by Spanish architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (born 1942), this book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts. Architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (1942) graduated in 1968 at Madrid School of Architecture. During the academic year 1970-1971 he travelled from Madrid to London thanks to a grant of the British Council to complete his postgraduate training at the Architectural Association. There he...