How Did We Get Here?: BLAF architecten Houses 2003–2023
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Author: BLAF architecten
Can a house simultaneously be a home, a prototype, and a critical response to reality? This title reveals how BLAF architecten’s residential projects navigate tensions between suburban sprawl, energy regulations, conventional construction systems, and clients’ housing aspirations. Focuses on the firm's engagement with the meaning of materiality, resources and production, energy-efficiency standards and principles, context, and construction systems from a design perspective.BLAF architecten have developed concepts that demonstrate how the practice seeks plausible paths forward, aspiring to reconcile positions on affordability, performance, adaptability, aesthetics, and circularity.BLAF architecten offers no ready-made answers, but a compass for those who believe in architecture as a practice of and for transition.
ISBN 9783035628265. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 240 pages. 28 x 22 cm.
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Can a house simultaneously be a home, a prototype, and a critical response to reality? This title reveals how BLAF architecten’s residential projects navigate tensions between suburban sprawl, energy regulations, conventional construction systems, and clients’ housing aspirations. Focuses on the firm's engagement with the meaning of materiality, resources and production, energy-efficiency standards and principles, context, and construction systems from a design perspective.BLAF architecten have developed concepts that demonstrate how the practice seeks plausible paths forward, aspiring to reconcile positions on affordability, performance, adaptability, aesthetics, and circularity.BLAF architecten offers no ready-made answers, but a compass for those who believe in architecture as a practice of and for transition.
ISBN 9783035628265. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 240 pages. 28 x 22 cm.
available