Underground Space Design
Underground Space Design

Author: Raymond Sterling

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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The authors offer an overview of a wide range of underground uses by reflecting on the past, present, and future of underground development. Subjects include a comprehensive set of classifications, a summary of existing research on psychological issues, exterior and entrance design, layout and spatial configuration patterns, interior design, lighting, and life safety design. Written for architects, interior designers, civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, city planners, developers, and environmental psychologists. Many illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Poetics of Underground Space
Poetics of Underground Space

Author: Antonello Boschi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1000456315

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This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows. The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generates increasingly compromised landscapes, what are the possible strategies to transform, expand and change the usual relationship between abuse of soil and unused subsoil? Psychological, philosophical, literary and cinematographic legacies of underground architecture are mixed with the compositional, typological and constructive expedients, to produce a rich, diverse and compelling argument for these spaces. As such, the book will appeal to architecture students, scholars and academics as well as those with an interest in literary theory, cinema and cultural studies.

Underground Spaces Unveiled
Underground Spaces Unveiled

Author: Han Admiraal

Publisher: ICE Publishing

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780727761453

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Underground Spaces Unveiled is a broad overview of the concept of underground space development investigating the issues that are associated with the sustainable development of urban underground space.

Underground Engineering
Underground Engineering

Author: Bai Yun

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0128127031

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Underground Engineering: Planning, Design, Construction and Operation of the Underground Space provides the author's vast experience as both an academic and practitioner. It covers Planning, Design, Construction and the Operation of Underground Structures. Targeted at young professionals, students and researchers new to the field, the book contains examples, illustrations and cases from diverse underground uses, from roads to disposal facilities. Sections cover the history of the field, upcoming challenges, the planning stage of the subsurface use, including financial planning and reliability forecasting, site investigation, instrumentation and modeling, construction techniques and challenges, and more. Young professionals in this area will benefit from the updated and complete overview of Underground Engineering. Students will find the examples and cases particularly didactic. Richly illustrated, this book is an excellent resource for all involved in the development of the underground space. - Offers a complete introduction to the area, including planning, design, construction and the operation of underground structures - Assumes little previous knowledge from readers - Presents the most recent techniques and future technical trends - Richly illustrated and packed with examples to help readers understand the fundamentals of the area

Underground Spaces
Underground Spaces

Author: C. A. Brebbia

Publisher: WIT Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1845641256

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It is a strongly held belief that population growth and the demand for better accommodation and leisure facilities, combined with a desire to improve the landscape, will result in the need to develop more underground spaces. This phenomenon, which started in countries subjected to extreme climates, is now becoming more widespread. Underground spaces are being utilized for a wide diversity of needs. They range from classical excavations to subway constructions; underground sports halls; power stations; waste repositories; underground cities, and many others. Their construction techniques are also varied, from open-air excavations to newly developed injection methods. The response of the underground structures on the imposed loadings depends on a number of parameters that sometimes are too complex or not fully understood, resulting in budget overruns or even failures that lead to loss of property or life. Such uncertain cases need to be addressed and engineers should be able to accurately predict the construction's performance throughout its construction and service life. The First International Conference on Underground Spaces discusses not only structural and environmental material characterization aspects but also the trends regarding the utilization of underground spaces. This book contains papers presented at the Meeting, and covers a wide range of topics including: Use of underground space for industry; Underground power stations; Toxic and nuclear waste repositories; Energy underground reservoirs; Underground sewerage plants; Waste storage and management; Road and railway tunnels; Utility tunnels; Fire defence; Defence against terrorist attacks.

Underground Infrastructures
Underground Infrastructures

Author: R K Goel

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0123971683

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Offers exposition of the classification of underground space, important considerations such as geological and engineering and underground planning. This title includes chapters concerning applications for underground water storage, underground car parks, underground metros and road tunnels and underground storage of crude oil, lpg and natural gas.

Design of Underground Structures
Design of Underground Structures

Author: Zhen-Dong Cui

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-08-09

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13: 9811377324

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This book provides a general review of the literature on underground structures, combined with new specifications, engineering case studies, and numerical simulations based on the authors’ research. It focuses on the basic concepts, theories, and methods of the design of underground structures. After an introduction, it covers various topics, such as elastic foundation beam theory and numerical analysis methods for underground structures, as well as the design of shallow underground structures, diaphragm wall structures, shield tunnel structures, caisson structures, immersed tube structures, and integral tunnel structures. It also includes tables for calculating elastic foundation beam. This book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students majoring in urban underground space engineering, building engineering, highway engineering, railway engineering, bridge and tunnel engineering, water conservancy and hydropower engineering.

Earth Sheltered Homes
Earth Sheltered Homes

Author: Donna Ahrens

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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"Detailed construction information, plans, and energy data for twenty-three successful earth sheltered homes throughout the United States and Europe. Gross area, materials for construction, types of earth cover, method of insulation, and waterproofing techniques are all included in data sheets and charts that baccompany a full description of each house. In addition, comprehensive plans and over 150 photographs of both interior and exterior views"--Back cover.

Below Ground Level
Below Ground Level

Author: Ernst von Meijenfeldt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002-10-25

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9783764369088

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Any space that involves descending from our typical aboveground environment is a provocation to our sensory perceptions. Such hidden spaces evoke latent mythical images and confront us with the clash between nature and artifice in our built environment. This book explores the character, use and design of underground space as a space of its own. International examples of commercial premises, restaurants, sports facilities, subway stations, museums, churches, libraries, concert halls, houses and other building types form the core material. Interviews with many renowned designers including Norman Foster, Floris Alkemade (OMA) and Francine Houben (Mecanoo) convey the architects' own views on the subject. Essays reflect on the cultural aspects, planning conditions, design considerations, technical requirements and sustainability aspects of building below ground level. Chapters include: Urban Development, Architecture, Functions, Perception and Cognition, Constructions, Energy and Interior Climate.