Adobe houses for today : flexible plans for your adobe home

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = 9
• INTRODUCTION = 11
• CHAPTER 1. THE OLDEST BRAND NEW THING IN HOUSES = 17
• The First New Mexico Adobes = 18
• The Far Kingdom 7 = 19
• Newcomers from the East : Territorial and Mountain Styles = 24
• A New Century : Revival, Depression, Revival = 29
• A Happy, Holistic, High-Tech Heaven : The 1960s and l970s = 34
• Adapting to a New Millenium = 36
• CHAPTER 2. ADOBE'S ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS = 39
• Sate at Home in Fort Adobe = 42
• Adobe's Low Embodied Energy = 44
• Thermal Mass, the Comfort Food of Architecture = 46
• What About Adobe's Disadvantages? = 47
• CHAPTER 3. HOW MUCH ENERGY DO YOU WANT TO SAVE? = 56
• What Does It Mean, Being Green? = 57
• The Energy Pie : Where the Money Really Goes = 57
• The Big Players : Size, Fuel Type, Habits and Gadgets = 58
• Heating, Cooling and the Building Skin = 60
• The Solar Components = 64
• Green Building Programs = 66
• sorting It Out = 69
• CHAPTER 4. DESIGNING THE HEART OF A HOUSE = 70
• Houses that Fit Variety of Sites = 71
• Houses that Fit Different Kinds of Families = 73
• Houses that Fit a Wide Range of budgets = 78
• Houses that Maintain High Quality in Materials, Design and Comfort = 87
• CHAPTERS 5. THE PLANS = 93
• Playing with the Plans = 93
• The Plans = 99
• CHAPTER 6. ARE WE ALMOST THERE? = 148
• Where Do You Want to Live? = 148
• Is This the Site that Suits You? = 155
• What About Finances? = 159
• The Bottom Line = 166
• CHAPTER 7. ADOBE FROM THE GROUND UP = 167
• Site Work = 167
• Concrete = 170
• Adobe Walls = 172
• Framing = 174
• Insulation = 176
• Stucco and Plaster = 178
• Windows and Exterior Doors = 180
• Roofing = 182
• Interiors and Kitchens = 184
• Mechanical = 186
• Electrical = 188
• General Job Costs, Overhead and Profit = 189
• APPENDIX Working Drawings and Building Permits = 191
• NOTES = 195
• BIBLIOGRAPHY = 196
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS = 198
• ORDER FORM = 199