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Deep Skin Architecture

Design Potentials of Multi-Layered Architectural Boundaries

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Authors:
  1. Timo Carl

    1. Kassel, Germany

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  • A design-build research study

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Timo Carl
    Pages 1-12

  3. Ecologies of Skin and Depth

    • Timo Carl
    Pages 13-53

  4. Radiant Milieu

    • Timo Carl
    Pages 55-107

  5. Ecologies of Encounter: Deep Skins

    • Timo Carl
    Pages 109-157

  6. Discussion and Conclusion

    • Timo Carl
    Pages 159-166

  7. German Summary

    • Timo Carl
    Pages 167-172

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 173-185
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About this book

Timo Carl presents alternatives to curtain wall facades and other flat boundaries creating autonomous spaces. He investigates facade typologies with multiple material layers to strategize the relationship between buildings and their environment. By revisiting Le Corbusier´s seminal brise soleil an alternative reading of the modern project emerges: one that is not based on classical compositional rules, but instead on the dynamic relationships with environmental forces. Finally, an exciting series of project-based investigations sets out innovative ways in which novel deep skins combine energy-conscious performance with the poetics of architecture.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Kassel, Germany

    Timo Carl

About the author

Timo Carl is an architect and Assistant Professor at the Department of Experimental Design and Construction at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research interest includes the symbiosis of ecology and aesthetics in architecture. His work has been internationally exhibited and part of this research was honoured with the prestigious ´Blauer Kompass´ award of the German Federal Environmental Agency.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Deep Skin Architecture

  • Book Subtitle: Design Potentials of Multi-Layered Architectural Boundaries

  • Authors: Timo Carl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26333-1

  • Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-26332-4Published: 08 May 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-26333-1Published: 25 April 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 185

  • Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Architectural History and Theory, Building Types and Functions, Design, general

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