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List of contents
1. Introduction Guy Marriage 2. Street life Sara Shabahang and Guy Marriage 3. Looking back Emina Kristina Petrovic and Guy Marriage 4. Apartment block typologies Guy Marriage 5. Sunshine, daylight, healthy living and sustainability Guy Marriage 6. Structure and materialityNabil Jose Allaf 7. Sustainable timber future Guy Marriage 8. Embodied carbon Emily Newmarch 9. Prefabrication Pamela Bell 10. Residential Core design Guy Marriage 11. Apartment planning Guy Marriage 12. Fire, acoustics and Services Guy Marriage 13. Facades and cladding Guy Marriage and Nabil Jose Allaf 14. Balcony – the garden in the sky Guy Marriage 15. Exporting apartments – lessons in prefab from the North Joseph Sturm 16. Case Study 1 – Clearwater Quays Pacific Environments NZ: Roger French and Enovate: Michael Newcombe 17. Case Study 2 – Wynyard Central East 2 Architectus: Patrick Clifford 18. Case Study 3 – Dalston Works Waugh Thistleton Architects: Kieran Walker and Guy Marriage 19. Case Study 4 – Mjøstårnet Voll Arkitekter: Øystein Elgsaas 20. Case Study 5 – Brock Commons: Tallwood House Acton Ostry Architects: Russell Acton and Guy Marriage 21. Case Study 6 – Regensbergstrasse Dreicon: Joe Kaps and Guy Marriage List of Figures List of Tables Bibliography Index
About the author
Guy Marriage is an architect, registered in Britain and in New Zealand. Now teaching construction, design and building science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, he gained construction experience from over two decades in practice, with 11 years working in architectural practices in London including Colman Architects, Jestico + Whiles, and Foster + Partners. Returning to New Zealand in 2000, he worked for 7 years at the Studio of Pacific Architecture and was one of the founding directors of First Light Studio in 2012. He has experience in projects that range in scale from small homes, prefabricated houses, and apartment buildings, as well as shopping centres, multi-storey office buildings, and two of the largest Jubilee Line underground railway stations in London. In 2019, he published his first book Tall: The Design and Construction of High-Rise Architecture.
For further details, please visit: www.tallconstruction.org
Summary
Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction.
