Sponge City Hybrid Infrastructure (eBook)

This book focuses on the access to water in the building and its surroundings, to infer the mutual interaction and the complex interconnection of green/blue infrastructures. This book is a tool for understanding the multifunctional functionality of urban waste water to recognize their efficient and strategically useful potential in the form of aesthetic and functional architectural elements-vertical gardens, waterproof roof systems, rain gardens, retention rainwater recirculation tanks, biomarkers for wastewater treatment, and other progressive technologies and technical solutions. The originality of the proposed book and the innovation of the proposed objectives lies in the complexity and interdisciplinary of the problem solved, with clear continuity and utilization in professional building, environmental, and psychosocial practice. Understanding the quality of life as a category influenced by several objective and subjective conditions, this manuscript draws up recommendations on how to build 'green buildings'-progressively supplied with water, connecting infrastructures-from existing buildings (administrative or training).

Prof. Ing. Zuzana Vranayova has been involved in scientific research and teaching activities at the Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Civil Engineering (SvF) for a long time. Her professional interest is oriented toward the sustainable and safe water supply in buildings. She belongs to significant scientific experts in the field of green buildings and their water management and actively participates in international conferences. She has more than 600 entries in the publication record. She held the position of vice-dean for Education, the chair of Academic Senate, and the director of the Institute of Architectural Engineering, SvF.