Storm Resilient Design with Precast Concrete: New Practices, New Knowledge Networks

This paper describes the work of the Precast/Pre-stressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Architectural Design Studio, an industry-sponsored program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. As a partnership between the academic community and professional precast concrete industry, the program couples together a focused, intensive, semester-long exploration of a specific material and construction type – precast concrete building systems – with a more expansive study of multi-disciplinary issues associated with the emerging field of resilience. It is a demonstrative example of an academic program that strategically positions the discipline of architecture between a specific body of industry knowledge and general knowledge in an expanding field.

Volume Editors
David Ruy & Lola Sheppard

ISBN
978-0-935502-95-4