HERMANN Sustainable Design Handbook - China: High Environemental Quality Cities and Buildings, édition en langue anglaise

A 400-page manual with 800 illustrztions. A comprehensive architectural and sustainable urban design handbook. The first design manual to integrate all scales : from the megalopolis to the choice of construction systems. A systematic and informative method that organises sustainable development issues and optimises choices. An extremely comprehensive document. A direct and efficient understanding of how to design sustainable cities and buildings. The first sustainable development guide to have been developed in coordination with Chinese partners, the handbook provides a specific and contextual approach to the immense-market represented by the 30 billion square metres of housing to be' built and the population of 800 million people to be urbanised over the coming 20 years through the creation of 200 towns, each housing over two million inhabitants. This highly informative book explains fundamental principles through over 800 illustrations, diagrams, photographs and construction details. These are illustrated through 60 projects and completed works by major French and international architectural firms-such as Arte Charpentier, which participated in the preparation of the handbook, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Ken Yeang, Thomas Herzog, Bill Dunster, etc. About the Author Serge Salat is an architect, an urban planner and an engineer. He also holds a PhD in economics. He has designed numerous large scale urban projects in China and throughout the world : He is currently a Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Construction (DRAST), a Research Director at CSTB and Lecturer of Sustainable Design, at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He has written more than twenty books about architecture and art.