The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects
"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
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Building Type Basics books provide architects, engineers, and facility planners with the essentials they need to jump–start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy–to–follow format. The result is an excellent, hands–on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.
Building Type Basics for Senior Living and Care is a rich resource of nuts–and–bolts guidelines and know–how for designing housing and care environments for the elderly. Written by leaders in the field, this highly visual guidebook offers project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details on a variety of building subtypes. This is an invaluable reference for everyone involved in the early stages of designing facilities for the over–65 population.