| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index. |
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Includes web resources. |
| Summary |
Targeted primarily at designers and home owners in the UK. As with the best-selling 'Architects Pocket Book' this title includes everyday information which the architect/designer normally has to find from a wide variety of sources and which is not always easily to hand. Focusing on kitchen design, this book is of use to the student as well as the experienced practitioner. It outlines all the information needed to design a workable kitchen, including ergonomics, services such as water and waste, appliances, and material choices for the floor, walls and ceiling. There is no similar compendium cu. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Architect's Pocket Book of KITCHEN DESIGN -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 History of the kitchen -- Early kitchens -- The central hearth -- The advent of the chimney -- Fuel -- Early ovens -- Development of the range -- The Victorian kitchen -- Catherine Beecher -- Gas cooking -- Electric cooking -- Appliances with electric motors -- Early twentieth century -- The continuous worktop -- 1920s and 1930s -- 1940s -- Post World War II -- 2 Types of kitchen -- First considerations -- Questions to be asked -- Cost -- The family kitchen -- The luxury kitchen -- Kitchens for flats -- Small, low-cost kitchens -- Kitchen in a cupboard -- Kitchens for the elderly -- 3 Planning -- Work sequence -- The work triangle -- Ergonomics -- Key dimensions on plan -- Key vertical dimensions -- Worktop heights -- Cabinets: dimensions to note -- Appliances: planning considerations -- Energy labels -- Sinks -- Cookers -- Refrigerators and freezers -- 4 Kitchens for the disabled -- The ambulant disabled kitchen -- Planning -- Services -- Appliances -- Cabinets -- Useful devices -- Wheelchair user's kitchen -- Planning -- Sinks -- Cookers -- Refrigerators -- Other useful devices -- Cabinets -- 5 Safety in the kitchen -- Planning -- Children -- Electrical appliances -- safety aspects -- Gas cookers -- safety aspects -- Dealing with fire -- Smoke alarms -- 6 Services -- Water supply -- Water treatment -- Water softeners -- Scale inhibitors -- Filtered drinking water -- Boiling and chilled water on tap -- Gas supply -- Electrical wiring -- Lighting -- Worktop lighting -- General lighting -- Heating -- Underfloor heating -- Kickspace heaters -- Wall-mounted fan heaters -- Infra-red heaters -- Towel radiators -- Ventilation -- Building Regulations -- Communications -- Notice board -- Telephone -- Entry phone -- Baby alarm -- Desk -- Radio and TV -- 7 Sinks and mixers -- Types of sinks -- Sink accessories -- Stainless steel sinks -- Brass sinks -- Plastic sinks -- Solid surface sinks -- Ceramic sinks -- Sink taps and mixers -- Filtered water mixers -- Rinsing spray attachment -- Tap holes -- Tap construction -- 8 Waste disposal -- Recycling waste -- Waste bins -- Dustbins -- Waste disposers -- Models -- Installation -- Refuse compactors -- 9 Cooking appliances -- Freestanding cookers -- Traditional range cookers -- New range cookers -- Built-in ovens and hobs -- Ovens -- built-in -- Electric oven types -- Steam ovens -- Warming drawers -- Gas ovens -- Oven cleaning systems -- Microwave ovens -- How micr. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kitchens -- Design and construction.
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Kitchens -- Design and construction. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baden-Powell, Charlotte, 1936- Architect's pocket book of kitchen design. Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier/Architectural Press, 2005 0750661321 (OCoLC)58830529 |
| ISBN |
0080455093 (electronic book) |
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9780080455099 (electronic book) |
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0750661321 (Paper) |
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9780750661324 |
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