ABSTRACT

Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena.
Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.

part One|63 pages

A Residential Open Building Primer

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Incubators of Open Building

part Two|104 pages

A Survey of Milestone Projects

chapter 4|102 pages

Case Studies

part Three|50 pages

Methods and Products

chapter 5|10 pages

Technical overview

chapter 6|13 pages

Methods and systems by level

part Four|21 pages

Economic and Additional Factors

chapter 8|11 pages

The economics of Open Building

chapter 9|8 pages

Additional trends toward Open Building

part Five|30 pages

Summary and Conclusions

chapter 10|18 pages

Open Building activity by nation

chapter 11|10 pages

The Future of Open Building