Innovative Apartment Buildings: New Directions in Sustainable Design [Hardcover]

This book is primarily addressed to architects as social change requires them to be innovative in their responses. The buildings shown in this book represent a momentary situation and demonstrate at the same time that the design and constructionof apartment buildings will evolve and endure.Current design of apartment buildings is facing challenges of philosophy and form. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic, cultural and social aspects that led to the writing of this book. Concepts that minimize the building???s carbon footprint, passive solar gain, net-zero structures and water harvesting system are some of the contemporary strategies that architects and builders are integrating into their thought processes and design. The book offers information on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding international examples.Avi Friedman is the principal of Avi Friedman Consultants Inc. and the recipient of numerous awards including the Life Time Achievement Award from Sustainable Buildings Canada and the World Habitat Award. In 2000 he was selected by Wallpaper magazine as one of ten people from around the world ??most likely to change the way we live??.