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Systems that can be used  in many different ways for efficient building

Architects have always planned and built using construction systems consisting of a few identical elements with a focus on more efficient and economical construction progress and possible subsequent dismantling or modification. Prefabricated systems of components that can be combined with each other and with modern planning and production methods will be an increasingly important aspect of architecture in future.

"Components and Systems" describes various prefabricated construction components and open and closed systems in the context of frame, panel and modular construction methods. Information on transport and installation and a preview of future building methods round out the topic. Explanations are supplemented by detailed drawings and colour photos.

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London World’s Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood.

Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one another will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future.

This volume offers an in-depth and clearly organized presentation of the various types of precast building components – from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems, and skeleton and panel construction all the way to spatial cell constructions. The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs.

Discussions of transporting and assembling the various systems round off the topic and make this book an indispensable practical companion.

Publikacja jednojęzyczna, w wersji językowej: - angielskiej