Karsten Tichelmann – författare

Fußballstadien, Flughäfen, Theater oder Museen – solch spektakuläre Projekte dürfen nur wenige Architekten zu ihren Bauaufgaben zählen. Oft geht es im Alltagsgeschäft um „überschaubarere" Planungen wie den Umbau, Ausbau oder Neubau von Ein- oder Mehrfamilienhäusern, Schulen oder Büros. Wie sich die Bauaufgabe auch gestaltet, der Ausbau stellt immer eine große qualitative und gestalterische Herausforderung dar und erfordert präzises Fachwissen. Betrifft er doch den Bereich, der nach der Fertigstellung vom Nutzer belebt und genutzt wird, dessen ästhetische wie funktionale Gebrauchstauglichkeit Tag für Tag auf die Probe gestellt wird.Der Ausbau Atlas dient dem Planer bei seiner täglichen Arbeit als praxisnahe Planungshilfe und Nachschlagewerk mit den relevanten Normen, Richtlinien, Leitdetails und anschaulichen Konstruktionslösungen am Beispiel gebauter Projekte. Er fasst alle wesentlichen Fakten rund um das Thema Ausbau zusammen und vermittelt die wichtigsten Grundlagen im Bereich Bauphysik, Brandschutz, Ausbausysteme und Öffnungen. Darüber hinaus liefert das Buch konkrete Hinweise zu integralen Planungsansätzen, Nachhaltigkeits- und energetischen Aspekten, Materialien im Innenraum, Schadstoffen und dem Umgang mit Haustechnik und Lichtplanung.

Soccer stadiums, airports, theaters, museums – it falls to very few architects to tackle spectacular building tasks like these. The everyday work of most architects is more often focused on "manageable" projects like the renovation, remodeling, or rebuilding of single- and multi-family houses, schools, and offices. Whatever the nature of the building task, interior construction is always a significant design and qualitative challenge that calls for highly detailed technical expertise. After all, it affects the realm that will be brought to life and utilized by the user when the task is finished, and whose aesthetic and functional serviceability will be put to the test each and every day. The Interior Construction Manual supports planners in their daily work as a practical planning aid and reference work with the relevant standards, guidelines, reference details, and constructional solutions, all illustrated by built example projects. It brings together the crucial facts on all aspects of interior construction and presents the key fundamentals of building physics, fire protection, interior construction systems, and openings. In addition, it offers concrete tips on integrated planning approaches, energy and sustainability issues, materials used in interior construction, hazardous substances, and dealing with building services and light planning.

Detail-Practice: Dry Construction provides an overview of the most widely used dry construction systems, organized according to the building components wall, ceiling, and floor and their applications. The volume is conceived as a practical manual for design and planning. Dry construction in interior design employs "dry construction systems" in place of moisture-retaining materials such as concrete and plaster. Not only is this construction method cost-effective, since the full range of physical requirements, including thermal, cold, and sound insulation, fire safety, etc., can be satisfied. Thanks to the use of new material technologies, it also affords the designer nearly unlimited freedom, since the surfaces involved are almost infinitely malleable as well as multifunctional, capable of assuming the tasks of lighting, heating, and cooling. The general section is supplemented by examples from existing projects with clearly visible reference details as well as from special constructions, for example, in damp locations. The book shows the potential this construction method obtains from the use of new materials and construction systems. As in the preceding volumes of the series, standard drawings are used to illustrate common construction details.

Karsten Tichelmann is the director of the Institut für Trocken- und Leichtbau (Institute for Dry and Lightweight Construction) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology). Jochen Pfau is professor of light-tech, dry, and lightweight construction at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Both are authors of the Trockenbau Atlas (Dry Construction Manual) published by the R. Müller Verlag (available in German only).