Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects

Peter Petschek

221 pages, parution le 26/06/2008

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Résumé

"Using contour lines is the only precise way of communicating the grading of freely shaped landforms in plan; so you had better become an expert !"

Professor Hans Loidl, landscape architect and lecturer

A landscape architect has to consider functional, aesthetic and ecological criteria when making design decisions. Grading is of elementary importance in the decision-making process-in addition to planting, it is one of the landscape architect's most important tools.

This book deals with the basics-landforms, scales, gradient, interpolation, spot elevations, contour lines, and cut and fill calculations-as well as delving into more specific topics such as landscape stabilization, stormwater management and grading on the construction site. It reviews the potential of digital site modeling and its application to the actual staking out of sites and remote control systems for machinery. The book closes with a number of inspiring projects and a set of practical exercises, which will assist readers, landscape architects and architects alike, in becoming familiar with site grading as one of the most important design tools in landscape architecture.

Sommaire

Foreword by Peter Walker
Introduction
History of grading
Forms of terrain
Basics of grading
Digital grading
Slope reinforcement systems
Construction site implementation
Practical examples
Exercices on grading
Solutions
Glossary
Illustrations and tables
Bibliography/sources

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Éditeur(s)	Birkhäuser
Auteur(s)	Peter Petschek
Parution	26/06/2008
Nb. de pages	221
Format	17 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	801g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783764385026
ISBN13	978-3-7643-8502-6