Adobe houses for today : flexible plans for your adobe home. / Laura Sanchez, Alex Sanchez. txt

Por:

Sanchez, Laura, 1944-

Colaborador(es):

Sanchez, Al

Santa Fe, N.M., USA : Sunstone Press , 2008Edición: New and rev. edDescripción: 228 p. ill. ;plans. ; 28 cmTipo de contenido:

text

Tipo de medio:

unmediaded

Tipo de soporte:

volume

ISBN:

9780865346628
0865346623

Tema(s):

Clasificación CDD:

690.8 23

Clasificación LoC:

NA7224.6 S26 2008

Contenidos:

CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE OLDEST BRAND NEW THING IN HOUSES -- The First New Mexico Adobes -- The Far Kingdom -- Newcomers from the East: Territorial and Mountain Styles -- A New Century: Revival, Depression, Revival -- A Happy, Holistic, High-Tech Heaven: The 1960s and 1970s -- Adapting to a New Millennium -- CHAPTER 2. ADOBE'S ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS -- Safe at Home in Fort Adobe -- Adobe's Low Embodied Energy -- Thermal Mass, the Comfort Food of Architecture -- What About Adobe's Disadvantages? -- CHAPTER 3. HOW MUCH ENERGY DO YOU WANT TO SAVE? -- What Does It Mean, Being Green? -- The Energy Pie: Where the Money Really Goes -- The Big Players: Size, Fuel Type, Habits and Gadgets -- Heating, Cooling and the Building Skin -- The Solar Components -- Green Building Programs -- Sorting It Out -- CHAPTER 4. DESIGNING THE HEART OF A HOUSE -- Houses that Fit a Variety of Sites -- Houses that Fit Different Kinds of Families -- Houses that Fit a Wide Range of Budgets -- Houses that Maintain High Quality in Materials, Design and Comfort -- CHAPTER 5. THE PLANS -- Playing with the Plans -- The Plans -- CHAPTER 6. ARE WE ALMOST THERE? -- Where Do You Want to Live? -- Is This the Site that Suits You? -- What About Finances? -- The Bottom Line -- CHAPTER 7. ADOBE FROM THE GROUND UP -- Site Work -- Concrete -- Adobe Walls -- Framing -- Insulation -- Stucco and Plaster -- Windows and Exterior Doors -- Roofing -- Interiors and Kitchens -- Mechanical -- Electrical -- General Job Costs, Overhead and Profit -- CHAPTER 8. STORIES FROM THE FIELD -- A Little Adobe Jewel -- Framing a Taos Farm House -- Down Easters Go Southwest -- Cruising In From The 16th Century -- Hecho En Mexico -- A Casa Grande In Casas Grandes -- Tight Site -- The Expanded Versions -- The Future? -- APPENDIX: Working Drawings and Building Permits -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS --

Resumen: Since Adobe Houses for Today first appeared, interest in energy efficiency has exploded. Showing the pathway to smaller, solar tempered, easy-to-heat homes using adobe, one of the world's most energy efficient building materials, makes this book about adobe houses not only for today, but also for tomorrow. Adobe Houses for Today features 12 plans for compact, beautifully proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be expanded and adapted to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites. After a brief look at adobe's rich history, Adobe Houses for Today surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction, and gives an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation. The heart of the book details the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house. The book and its minimal-cost construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools for those buying, building, or remodeling a house. With this new edition, which includes an additional chapter with stories from people who have built the houses, construction drawings are now available for some of the expanded versions.

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Since Adobe Houses for Today first appeared, interest in energy efficiency has exploded. Showing the pathway to smaller, solar tempered, easy-to-heat homes using adobe, one of the world's most energy efficient building materials, makes this book about adobe houses not only for today, but also for tomorrow. The book features 12 plans for compact, beautifully proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be expanded and adapted to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites. After a brief look at adobe's history, Adobe Houses for Today surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction, and gives an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation. The heart of the book details the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house. The book and its minimal-cost construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools for those buying, building, or remodeling a house. With this new edition, which includes an additional chapter with stories from people who have built the houses, construction drawings are now available for some of the expanded versions.

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CONTENTS --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
INTRODUCTION --
CHAPTER 1. THE OLDEST BRAND NEW THING IN HOUSES --
The First New Mexico Adobes --
The Far Kingdom --
Newcomers from the East: Territorial and Mountain Styles --
A New Century: Revival, Depression, Revival --
A Happy, Holistic, High-Tech Heaven: The 1960s and 1970s --
Adapting to a New Millennium --
CHAPTER 2. ADOBE'S ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS --
Safe at Home in Fort Adobe --
Adobe's Low Embodied Energy --
Thermal Mass, the Comfort Food of Architecture --
What About Adobe's Disadvantages? --
CHAPTER 3. HOW MUCH ENERGY DO YOU WANT TO SAVE? --
What Does It Mean, Being Green? --
The Energy Pie: Where the Money Really Goes --
The Big Players: Size, Fuel Type, Habits and Gadgets --
Heating, Cooling and the Building Skin --
The Solar Components --
Green Building Programs --
Sorting It Out --
CHAPTER 4. DESIGNING THE HEART OF A HOUSE --
Houses that Fit a Variety of Sites --
Houses that Fit Different Kinds of Families --
Houses that Fit a Wide Range of Budgets --
Houses that Maintain High Quality in Materials, Design and Comfort --
CHAPTER 5. THE PLANS --
Playing with the Plans --
The Plans --
CHAPTER 6. ARE WE ALMOST THERE? --
Where Do You Want to Live? --
Is This the Site that Suits You? --
What About Finances? --
The Bottom Line --
CHAPTER 7. ADOBE FROM THE GROUND UP --
Site Work --
Concrete --
Adobe Walls --
Framing --
Insulation --
Stucco and Plaster --
Windows and Exterior Doors --
Roofing --
Interiors and Kitchens --
Mechanical --
Electrical --
General Job Costs, Overhead and Profit --
CHAPTER 8. STORIES FROM THE FIELD --
A Little Adobe Jewel --
Framing a Taos Farm House --
Down Easters Go Southwest --
Cruising In From The 16th Century --
Hecho En Mexico --
A Casa Grande In Casas Grandes --
Tight Site --
The Expanded Versions --
The Future? --
APPENDIX: Working Drawings and Building Permits --
NOTES --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
ABOUT THE AUTHORS --

Since Adobe Houses for Today first appeared, interest in energy efficiency has exploded. Showing the pathway to smaller, solar tempered, easy-to-heat homes using adobe, one of the world's most energy efficient building materials, makes this book about adobe houses not only for today, but also for tomorrow. Adobe Houses for Today features 12 plans for compact, beautifully proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be expanded and adapted to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites. After a brief look at adobe's rich history, Adobe Houses for Today surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction, and gives an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation. The heart of the book details the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house. The book and its minimal-cost construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools for those buying, building, or remodeling a house. With this new edition, which includes an additional chapter with stories from people who have built the houses, construction drawings are now available for some of the expanded versions.

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Library Journal Review

Most library users are interested in homes using traditional construction methods, but comprehensive collections should offer information about alternative technologies. These three titles offer good options. Pearson offers instructions to build yurts, tipis, and benders all dwellings that consist of a collapsible, lightweight frame covered with cloth. Examples range from simple, temporary designs to much sturdier structures appropriate for year-round use. The examples are from all over the world, but brief instructions allow anyone to build a rather exotic structure inexpensively. The Sanchezes provide a wealth of information about the history and techniques associated with the use of adobe, an ancient material common in the Southwest. Twelve plans for both traditional and modern homes are included some of which look surprisingly conventional to the casual observer. This title will be of particular interest to readers in the more arid regions of North America. Mackie, a well-known author and educator of log home-building techniques, shows how to construct a log home in a low-impact, environmentally friendly manner. The homes shown are beautiful, with a great deal of exposed joinery; Mackie's step-by-step instructions and excellent illustrations show how everything is done (the author, who is in his mid-seventies, is still building homes a feat that many half his age would find taxing). These titles are recommended for comprehensive collections or for those with a regional interest in the particular technology covered. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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