Smart Home Extensions

Author: Carles Broto
Pages: 300
Format: 280 x 280 mm, Hard cover with jacket
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ISBN: 978-84-96969-04-9
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This book is a collection of 32 extension projects carried out on country houses and urban dwellings, temporary or permanent residences, built in gardens, attics, patios, inner courtyards, backyards and even in the air. Extensions of a durable type and entirely temporary additions, containing anything from a single utility or service room, to a complete residence; all of these ventures are thoroughly documented at every step of the design process, both technically and graphically, from the concept stage to the point of completion. The internationally recognized that authored these interventions have generously made available all sorts of explanatory guidelines and details of the solutions they implemented. The result of this combination off ers a wide choice of suggestions and valuable examples, of great
use for the defi nition of future reform and extension plans; this book is, in conclusion, an inestimable instrument for all sorts of professionals and architecture students concerning themselves with interior design, furnishing and decoration.

Carles Broto, an architecture scholar and one of the founders of the IAC (institute for alternative culture). Following a successful period at the Atrium Group (Barcelona), he has now joined Grupo Links – Structure as the publishing director of various contemporary architecture collections. He is currently investigating the evolution of new American housing, as part of a multi-country project. He lives in Barcelona.