The initial aim with the Green Building Cookbook was to create an archive of sustainable building materials and elements, that could potentially serve as a guide and knowledge-base for architects. In the course of the project it has developed into an archive of the parts making up one specific building. This enabled thorough research and development of the chosen materials. This method of reviewing, selecting and adapting is what formed the process and in turn the building, Villa Håknäs. The shift towards a more sustainable construction sector has already begun, and the we as architects can be a driving force in that shift.

To design with a changing ecosystem requires examining and understanding site dynamics, extracting guidelines for making architectural decisions and defi ning processes that allow for change. Sable Island National Park is an ideal case study to test this method because its simple and dynamic ecosystem defi nes clear guidelines and requirements for adaptation. The proposed National Park infrastructure remodels human interaction with Sable Island by replacing and remediating existing settlements. Designed to be sensitive to and participate in the island’s natural processes, the new architecture protects the delicate ecosystem and facilitates low impact visitation. The systems, spaces and experiences serve to deepen understanding of human interdependence with the environment. / The thesis is a architectural case study for designing with dynamic ecosystems. To test a methodology for designing in dynamic ecosystems, a National Park infrastructure is designed for Sable Island, Canada. The exercise requires learning from the dynamic ecosystem, extracting guidelines for making design choices and developing designs with the capacity to adapt to their surroundings.

Orientador : Mauro Augusto Demarzo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T04:24:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Morikawa_DevanirCabralLima_M.pdf: 7338026 bytes, checksum: 2159e32fb17b61ce4eb7aa0b0f7f5adc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: : No Brasil, a facilidade na obtenção de madeiras nativas a baixo custo, ocasionou algumas conseqüências, entre elas, o atraso tecnológico na indústria de processamento mecânico da madeira. A atual escassez de madeira nativa, aliada às pressões ecológicas e de legislação mais rigorosa, ajudam na busca de alternativas que se direcionem no desenvolvimento de plantios silviculturais, provocando assim uma revolução industrial na indústria madeireira, em particular, na de painéis de madeira reconstituída. O objetivo deste trabalho é realizar preliminarmente o levantamento do Estado da Arte das edificações em estrutura de madeira, e avaliar qualitativamente métodos construtivos que utilizam a chapa OSB (Oriented Strand Board), constituída de madeira de reflorestamento. O estudo em questão faz referências do ponto de vista geográfico, onde as habitações em madeira são avaliadas, analisadas e enfocadas em um âmbito espacial que é o Brasil, especialmente na região sudeste. Com a análise e interpretação dos dados, apresenta-se um relatório de estudo da arte sobre a durabilidade e eficiência das edificações em estrutura de madeira e seus componentes. Com o desenvolvimento deste trabalho e análise de novos materiais e componentes acredita-se que a indústria madereira, a indústria da construção e pesquisadores reavaliem os tradicionais métodos e processos construtivos em face das novas tecnologias desenvolvidas para obtenção de edificações em curto prazo, com o mínimo de desperdício, custos compatíveis com os tradicionais, gerando edificações de qualidade e conforto termo-acústico ... Observação: O resumo, na íntegra, poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digital / Abstract: The facility of obtains native woods at a lower price in Brazil brought as a result, among other things, the technological delay to processing wood industry. The current shortage of the native wood, together both the ecological pressures and rigorous legislation, are helping the search from alternatives that are going to the silviculturais plantation development, and one are causing so an industrial revolution in wooding industry, in particular, on the recycled wood plates. The objective of this work is both carrying out a survey of the Edification Arts¿ State in the wood structure and to value quality building method which use OSB (Oriented Strand Board) from reforestation wood. This study takes geographical angle to reference, where the wood houses are valued, analyzed and is in focus at Brazilian space, especially in southeast. With the analysis and the interpretation, it shows an art report about the durability and efficiency from edifications in wood structure and your components. With the developing of this work and the analyze from the new both materials and components, one believes that wood industry, the building constructions and researchers reconsider the traditional methodologies and the building processes in face to new technologies to obtain in short time, with the minimal waste, the compatible costs in comparing with the traditional, creating so quality and acoustic-term comforting in edifications ...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations / Mestrado / Arquitetura e Construção / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Negativ miljöpåverkan i form av föroreningar och koldioxidutsläpp är enorm idag. Men också de stora kostnader som tillkommer när man ska försöka bygga miljösmart. Framtiden kräver av oss att börja utnyttja förnyelsebara råvaror för en hållbar utveckling. Trä anses vara ett miljövänligt material och bör användas som stommaterial i höga byggnader i större utsträckning än det görs idag.  De vanligaste stomsystem som förekommer i träbyggnader är pelar-balksystem, skivsystem av massivträ och regelsystem. Dessa tre stomsystem kan sedan kombineras i tre olika byggmetoder: platsbygge, prefabricerade planelement eller prefabricerade volymer. Det finns flera aspekter som påverkar valet av stomsystem och byggmetod, t.ex. undergrunden, planlösningen, våningsantal, stomstabilisering och funktionskrav som brand, fukt och akustik.   Målet med examensarbetet är att jämföra två olika trästomsystem och byggmetoder. Jämförelser kommer att genomföras ur ett tekniskt perspektiv för att kunna fastställa vilket system/metod som är att föredra samt vilka för- och nackdelar dessa har. Rapporten delas in i tre delar. Den första delen utgör en jämförelse mellan trä och betong som stommaterial där aspekterna miljö, fukt, brand och akustik behandlas. Nästa del behandlar trähustekniken. Avsnittet ger en generell beskrivning om trä som stommaterial, där följande punkter avhandlas: Stomsystem Stomstabiliserande system för träbyggnader Förankringssystem Byggmetoder Funktionskrav för brand, fukt och akustik. Den sista delen i rapporten utgör grunden till examensarbetet. Två referensobjekt studeras, Ulls Hus respektive Brf Hjortronstället. Ulls Hus är byggd med prefabricerade planelement och har ett kombinerat stomsystem, pelare - balk och skivsystem. Brf Hjortronstället är byggd med Lindbäcks volymbyggnadssystem och har en träregelstomme. / The negative impact in forms of pollution and carbon dioxide emission is enormous today. So are the large costs which are added when you try to build environmentally smart. The future demands of us to begin to utilize renewable raw materials for a sustainable development. Wood is considered to be an environmentally good material which ought to be used to a larger degree than being done today. The most common framework systems that occur in wooden buildings are column-beam system, panel system of solid wood and timber frame system. These three frame systems can then be combined in three different construction methods: site construction, prefabricated surface units or prefabricated volumes. There are several aspects that influence the choice of framing system and construction method, such as: substructure, floor layout, floor number, structural stability and functional requirements such as fire, humidity and acoustics. The aim of our dissertation is to compare two wood frame systems: column-beam system and timber frame system. And also building methods with industrial wood building. Comparisons are made from a technical perspective in order to ascertain what frame system is to be preferred and which advantages and disadvantages these systems have. Our report is made up of three parts. The first part is a comparison between wood and concrete as framework material where we treat the areas of environment, moisture, fire and acoustics. The next part treats the technique of wood house. This part gives a general description of wood as framework material where the following aspects are treated: Frame systems Frame stabilizing systems for wood buildings Anchoring systems Construction methods Functional demands for fire, moisture and acoustics   The last part of the report is the basics for the dissertation. Two reference objects are studied, ”Ulls Hus” and ”Brf (housing cooperative) Hjortronstället”. Ulls Hus is built with prefabricated surface units with combined framework system, column-beam and board system. Brf Hjortronstället is built with the volume building system from Lindbäcks with a timber frame system.

This thesis uses the lens of building technology to examine cultural exchange and its relationship to the building crafts. By focusing on masonry vaulting in India, my research brings together two worlds – one that shines light on the variety of innovative masonry shell construction techniques that exist in the county and another that seeks to evaluate the scope of tile vaulting, an over 600-year old Mediterranean building technique, within India’s evolving building crafts culture. This thesis is organized in three parts: PART ONE Tile Vaulting and Relevance Today | A Brief History of Masonry Shells in India Part one introduces tile vaulting’s unique principles compared to other vaulting traditions while contextualizing its relevance to present day India. A survey of varied masonry vaulting techniques and modules, endemic and imported, practiced across India is presented against the backdrop of what is a predominantly reinforced concrete-based construction industry. PART TWO Modules, Methods and Motivations The second part of this research comprises case studies that include some of India’s most iconic buildings such as the Villa Sarabhai by Le Corbusier, the National Institute of Design by Gautam Sarabhai and Sangath by B.V. Doshi, each of which employed innovative construction techniques for its vaults. The production and use of the enigmatic ceramic fuses in India is examined for the first time alongside their indigenous cousins: burnt clay tubes. Together with Muzaffarnagar vaulting, the case studies reveal cultural motivations for architectural expression and production in postcolonial India. PART THREE Prototypes | Comparatives | Limitations & Extension of Research Part three presents five tile vaulting prototypes in India constructed with local artisans to gain understanding of its cultural reception, assess effective transfer of skills and potential internalisation. Recommendations for tile vaulting’s potential uptake into mainstream architectural production is evaluated by comparing findings against prevalent building methods and by contextualizing current architectural trends and social policy. Limitations and scope for extension of research are also discussed.