Basics Fire Safety cuts through the complexity of fire protection in architecture, explaining the core principles of prevention, evacuation, and containment that apply across building types and regulatory contexts.
About This Book
Fire safety is among the least glamorous and most consequential dimensions of building design. This volume in the Basics series approaches it with clarity and rigour, moving beyond jurisdiction-specific codes to establish the fundamental concepts that underpin all fire protection strategy. For architecture students and early-career practitioners, that distinction matters: understanding the principles — rather than memorising local regulations — is what enables competent design in any context. Diana Helmerking covers fire prevention, the safe rescue of building occupants, and the containment measures that support firefighting operations, presenting each as an integrated part of the architectural brief rather than a compliance afterthought.
Key Features
- 80 pages of diagrammatic and explanatory content on fire safety principles in building design
- Author: Diana Helmerking
- Published by Birkhäuser, as part of the Basics series
What You'll Discover
- The distinction between fire prevention measures and active fire containment strategies, and how each shapes design decisions
- How to design for occupant evacuation and rescue independently of any single country's building code
- The role of building layout, materials, and compartmentalisation in limiting fire spread
- A transferable conceptual framework for integrating fire safety into architectural design from the earliest project stages
About the Author
Diana Helmerking is the author of this volume in Birkhäuser's Basics architecture series. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 80
- Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035618594
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architecture students, graduate practitioners, and educators seeking a code-agnostic grounding in fire safety principles as an integrated dimension of building design.