World Independent Small House and Villa Design (Full 4 Volumes)

Author: Xu Suning
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The selected works in this book exhibit the following design characteristics:
1. Adapting to the local environment, skillfully utilizing terrain to organize indoor and outdoor spaces, with flexible and diverse compositions.
2. Closely integrating architecture with the environment, serving as both leisure spaces for appreciating and enjoying natural landscapes and as embellishments to natural scenery.
3. Diverse floor plans and spatial layouts. Various rooms can be flexibly divided while allowing mutual circulation; they feature clear functional zones yet are not confined by enclosed spaces, creating a spatial composition that interweaves vertical and horizontal dimensions, as well as flat and curved spaces.
4. Indoor and outdoor spaces extend, permeate, and transform, forming a building environment with distinct character.
5. Due to differences in geography, lifestyles, customs, and cultural backgrounds among countries such as Europe, America, Japan, Southeast Asia, and China, the selected works in this book display a wide variety of overall decorative styles and layout features, truly diverse and magnificent.
6. Due to the small scale and lower investment of cottages and villas, the design and construction processes fully express and reflect the architects' design concepts and stylistic characteristics.
7. With small building volumes and low heights, special attention is given to the treatment of roofs in exterior spaces, with countless forms and vibrant diversity.
8. Emphasis is placed on the selection of decorative materials, which play a decisive role in enhancing and enriching the overall building environment. Each selected work in the book is accompanied by a comprehensive and detailed project introduction, including design philosophy, key design points, and stylistic features. Every project is illustrated with floor plans, elevations, sections, structural drawings, and post-construction photographs of the built environment, along with detailed data. Currently, no similar books are available in China's book market, making this publication highly practical, guiding, and inspirational for architects, interior designers, as well as students and educators in architectural and environmental design fields.