Smart Buildings
This practical guide showcases global case studies and multidisciplinary insights, highlighting opportunities to enhance communication, flexibility, wellbeing, productivity, and data collection within architectural spaces.
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Smart Buildings
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A practical guide to technical advances including Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, innovative materials and robotics, Smart Buildings also outlines the opportunities for architecture including improved communication, flexibility, wellbeing, productivity and data collection.
How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture?
This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed, built, used, and better understood through technology. A practical guide to technical advances, including Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, innovative materials, and robotics, Smart Buildings also outlines the opportunities for architecture, including improved communication, flexibility, wellbeing, productivity, and data collection.
Bringing together multidisciplinary contributions and case studies from across the globe, this book provides an inspiring practical guide on how technology can inspire new architectural ideas, improving quality, comfort, health, and wellbeing in the built environment.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781859468708
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 January 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: RIBA Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 250.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Ron Bakker is an architect and founding partner of PLP Architecture. He is the architect of The Edge, Amsterdam, which Bloomberg has called โthe greenest office building in the world, and quite possibly the smartestโ. Ron speaks regularly on the role of new technologies in the built environment and their impact on productivity and well-being at universities and conferences around the world, including the World Economic Forum and TEDx.
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