Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415725429 ISBN 13: 9780415725422

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

• Significantly updated in reference to the latest construction standards and evolving building types
• Many chapters revised including housing, transport, offices, libraries and hotels
• New chapter on flood-aware design
• Sustainable design integrated into chapters throughout
• Over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects and designers - this book belongs in every design studio and architecture school library

The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design information for architects and architecture students. Covering basic design data for all the major building types, it is the ideal starting point for any project. For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer needs to be aware of.

As well as building types, the Metric Handbook deals with broader aspects of design such as materials, acoustics and lighting, and general design data on human dimensions and space requirements. The Metric Handbook provides an invaluable resource for solving everyday design and planning problems.

About this title

About the Author

Pamela Buxton is a freelance architecture and design journalist. She has contributed to many national newspapers, consumer magazines and trade publications including the architecture publications Building Design and RIBA Journal.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415725429
• ISBN 13: 9780415725422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 858
• Editor: Buxton Pamela