Deep Skin Architecture Design Potentials of Multi-Layered Architectural Boundaries /

• Main Author: Carl, Timo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Vieweg, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Architecture.; Buildings.; Design.; Architectural History and Theory.; Building Types and Functions.; Design, general.

Timo Carl presents alternatives to curtain wall facades and other flat boundaries creating autonomous spaces. He investigates facade typologies with multiple material layers to strategize the relationship between buildings and their environment. By revisiting Le Corbusier´s seminal brise soleil an a...

Table of Contents:

• Ecologies of Skin and Depth in Architecture
• From Modernist Skins to Atmospheres
• Le Corbusier and the Sun
• Ecologies of Encounter - Project-based Investigations.