Terri Meyer Boake Knihy

Innovative design methods for steel construction are explored through four comprehensive volumes. The series reflects the recent revolutionary changes in architecture, highlighting topics such as diagrid structures, exposed steel constructions, and non-orthogonal geometries. Terri Meyer Boake emphasizes contemporary architectural designs that showcase the tectonic possibilities of steel while paying close attention to execution and detailing.

Complexity in architecture, construction and material manipulation is constantly increasing due to our present ability to design, calculate and fabricate an extending range of geometric shapes and systems. This volume addresses the design of complexity in the planning, fabrication and construction of steel structures based on non-orthogonal geometries: curved and chaotic geometries, poly-diagrid systems, lattice-grid structures and others. Topical photographs by the author on a wide range of international projects present innovative methods and techniques, providing an excellent understanding of the possibilities and requirements of complex steel structures.

Diagrids - Tragwerke aus diagonalen Stahlfachwerkgittern, die zuerst bei spektakulären Großbauten wie dem Swiss Re Tower in London ('die Gurke') eingesetzt wurden - verbinden atemberaubende Ästhetik mit handfesten Vorteilen: einer massiven Materialersparnis, einem Gewinn an frei nutzbarer Geschossfläche und mehr Flexibilität. Dieses Buch erklärt erstmals umfassend alle Aspekte dieses neuen Tragwerkssystems. Steel diagrid structures are establishing themselves as a full option for load-bearing systems of mid to high-rise-buildings, providing a wide range of functional and economic advantages. The author, an experienced teacher, skillful photographer and relentless traveler, has documented many diagrid structures world-wide. The author deepens her approach from Understanding Steel Design to encompass more detailed textual and visual information.

This book provides the means for a better control and purposeful consideration of the design of Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel (AESS). It deploys a detailed categorization of AESS and its uses according to design context, building typology and visual exposure. In a rare combination, this approach makes high quality benchmarks compatible with economies in terms of material use, fabrication methods, workforce and cost. Building with exposed steel has become more and more popular worldwide, also as advances in fire safety technology have permitted its use for building tasks under stringent fire regulations. On her background of long standing as a teacher in architectural steel design affiliated with many institutions, the author ranks among the world‘s best scholars on this topic. Among the fields covered by the extensive approach of this book are the characteristics of the various categories of AESS, the interrelatedness of design, fabrication and erection of the steel structures, issues of coating and protection (including corrosion and fire protection), special materials like weathering steel and stainless steel, the member choices and a connection design checklist. The description draws on many international examples from advanced contemporary architecture, all visited and photographed by the author, among which figure buildings like the Amgen Helix Bridge in Seattle, the Shard Observation Level in London, the New York Times Building and the Arganquela Footbridge.

In a fresh approach to the reality of working with steel, this book looks at both at the state of tried-and-tested techniques and at emerging projects. It features construction photographs that are complemented by technical illustrations and drawings supplied by fabricators allowing insight into a method of working with digital drawing tools.