Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data

857 Pages·2015·46.99 MB·English

by  Pamela Buxton

METRIC HANDBOOK
(cid:120)(cid:3)Significantly updated in reference to the latest construction basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data,
standards and evolving building types and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what reg-
(cid:120)(cid:3)Many chapters revised including housing, transport, offices, ulations the designer needs to be aware of.
libraries and hotels As well as building types, the Metric Handbook deals with spe-
(cid:120)(cid:3)New chapter on flood-aware design cific aspects of design such as materials, acoustics and lighting, and
(cid:120)(cid:3)Sustainable design integrated into chapters throughout general design data on human dimensions and space requirements.
(cid:120)(cid:3)Over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects TheMetric Handbook provides an invaluable resource for solving
and designers – this book belongs in every design studio and everyday design and planning problems.
architecture school library
Pamela Buxton is a freelance architecture and design journalist.
TheMetric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design She has contributed to many national newspapers, consumer maga-
information for architects and architecture students. Covering basic zines and trade publications, including the architecture publications
design data for all the major building types, it is the ideal starting Building Design and RIBA Journal.
point for any project. For each building type, the book gives the
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METRIC HANDBOOK
Planning and Design Data
Fifth Edition
Edited by Pamela Buxton
First edition published 1968
by Architectural Press
Second edition published 1999
by Architectural Press
Third edition published 2007
by Architectural Press
Fourth edition published 2012
by Architectural Press
Fifth edition published 2015
by Routledge
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© 2015 Pamela Buxton
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Metric handbook: planning and design data/ [edited by] Pamela Buxton.—Fifth edition.
pages cm
Rev. ed. of: Metric handbook/ [edited by] David Littlefield, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
TH2031.M48 2015
720—dc23
2014012510
ISBN: 978-0-415-72542-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-75933-3 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK
Contents
Preface 18 Emergency services
Acknowledgements Including Fire stations by Michael Bowman
19 Hospitals
DESIGN BASICS David Clarke
1 Design information and dimensional coordination 20 Hotels
Terry Nichols with David King Fred Lawson
2 People and space 21 Houses and flats
Updated by Professor Norman Wienand John Chapman
3 People and movement 22 Homes for older people
Updated by Professor Norman Wienand Ian Smith (updated by David Littlefield)
4 Access and inclusion 23 Student housing and housing for young people
Neil Smith and David Dropkin Liz Pride
5 Capital and whole life costs of buildings 24 Industrial facilities
David Holmes, Chris Bicknell and John Davies Jolyon Drury and Ian Brebner
25 Industrial storage buildings
ESSENTIALS Jolyon Drury, updated with advice from Stephen
George & Partners
6 Structure
David Adler and Norman Seward 26 Laboratories
Revised by Andrew Peters Catherine Nikolaou and Neville Surti
7 Materials 27 Libraries
Arthur Lyons with AHR Architects Brian Edwards with Ayub Khan
8 Thermal environment 28 Masterplanning and landscaping
Phil Jones David Simister with Guy Walters, with contributions
by Sarah Burgess, Hugh Barton and Marcus Grant
9 Light
Joe Lynes 29 Museums, art galleries and temporary
exhibition spaces
10 Sound
Geoffrey Mathews
Chris Steel
30 Offices
11 Fire
Frank Duffy with Jack Pringle, Angela Mullarkey and
Beryl Menzies Richard Finnamore of Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will
12 Flood-aware design 31 Payment and counselling offices
Robert Barker and Richard Coutts Richard Napier
13 Crime prevention design 32 Places of worship
Nick Hughes Leslie Fairweather, Ian Brewerton, Atba Al-Samarraie,
David Adler and Derek Kemp. Revised by Maurice Walton
33 Primary health care
BUILDING TYPES
Geoffrey Purves
14 Agricultural buildings
34 Restaurants and foodservice facilities
John Weller, Rod Sheard, Frank Bradbeer and others
Fred Lawson
15 Auditoria
35 Retail shops and stores
Ian Appleton and Stefanie Fischer
Fred Lawson
16 Civic buildings
36 Schools
Updated by David Selby (town halls) and
Anthony Langan
Martin Sutcliffe and Neil Sansum of BDP (law courts)
37 Security and counter-terrorism
17 Community centres
Mark Whyte and Chris Johnson
Jim Tanner
vi Contents
38 Sports facilities: indoor and outdoor 42 Tropical design
Philip Johnson and Tom Jones Patricia Tutt
39 Streets and spaces for people and vehicles 43 Universities
Updated by Ben Hamilton-Baillie (introduction, shared Mike Hart and Rod McAllister
space and place-making) and Sustrans (cycling routes and
parking) Appendix A – SI system
40 Studios for sound and vision Appendix B – Conversion factors and tables
David Binns
Index
41 Transport terminals and interchanges
Airports updated by Andrew Perez with additional
contributions by Richard Chapman. Railways by Declan
McCafferty
Preface
Welcome to the fifth edition of Metric Handbook. As well as schools, housing and civic architecture, and also reflected chang-
updating and rewriting more than a quarter of the chapters, this ing attitudes to street design in our chapter on Streets and Spaces
latest edition has a new structure to enable the reader to navigate for People and Vehicles. Basic information on space requirements
more easily through the volume. Chapters are grouped into design for people and movement through buildings has been extensively
basics, universal themes and then building types, the latter arranged overhauled in Chapters 2 and 3 respectively, and the Materials
alphabetically. We hope this will provide a more reader-friendly section has been updated. But perhaps one of the most significant
way to access the vast array of information within this resource. additions to this edition of Metric Handbook is the new chapter on
As society changes, building design must adapt to suit chang- Flood-aware Design, introduced in response to the increased risk of
ing behaviours and needs. Nowhere is this more clear than in the flooding as a result of climate change.
design of the office, which has undergone a revolution since the But while much of the content has changed, the ambition of
development of computer technology and in particular wireless, the Metric Handbook remains the same. By bringing together
mobile working. Our new Offices chapter, written by Frank Duffy best practice and regulatory requirements from sizes to vol-
with Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will, reflects these changes and umes, materials to standards, this book gives readers a thorough
gives architects the information they need to rise to the challenge grounding and an essential headstart when tackling a new build-
of designing the new workplace. ing type.
We have also extensively updated chapters on other fast- Pamela Buxton
evolving building types such as libraries, transport terminals, December 2014
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Acknowledgements
This fifth edition of Metric Handbook is greatly indebted to the Thanks too are due to commissioning editors Fran Ford and
time and efforts of its many contributors in updating and writing Jennifer Schmidt at Routledge, and also to their editorial, design
anew the large number of updated chapters within this new edition. and production colleagues who all played such important roles in
Their generosity and expertise is much appreciated. the Herculean task of updating such a substantial volume.