Kerstin Schultz – författare

Designing and constructing load-bearing building elementsColumns, walls and floors make up the skeleton of nearly every building. This third volume in the series SCALE, Support | Materialise, takes an in-depth look at these load-bearing structures, covering the development and realization of appropriate constructions from idea and design intention all the way to constructional implementation. Following the traditional building methods of massive, cross-wall, and skeleton construction, it points the way toward a material-appropriate constructional approach to these defining structural elements – columns, walls, and floors. Special attention is given to how constructional and technical considerations can be harmonized with spatial and formal commitments. The load-bearing elements are organized, described, and explored in detail from a material as well as a formal and constructional perspective. Their practical implementation is illustrated by a series of international examples.

5 books for the price of 4: Hafke et al., Open I Close (978-3-7643-9961-0) Hegger et al.: Heat I Cool (978-3-0346-0513-7) Baurmann et al.: Support I Materialise (978-3-0346-0040-8) Herrmann et al.: Furnishing I Zoning (978-3-0346-0742-1) Krammer et al.: Enclose I Build (978-3-0346-0207-5)