Sun, Wind & Light

Sun, Wind & Light
Author: G. Z. Brown
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2000-11-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780471348771

Architecture/Environment How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. It also: * Applies the latest passive energy and lighting design research * Organizes information by architectural elements at three scales: * building groups, individual buildings, and building parts * Brings design strategies to life with examples and practical design tools * Features: * 109 analysis techniques and design strategies * More than 750 illustrations, sizing graphs, and tables * Both inch-pound and metric units

Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
Author: Mark DeKay
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0470945788

An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky. This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light.

Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
Author: Mark DeKay
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 870
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118332881

An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky. This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings. Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light.

Heating, Cooling, Lighting

Heating, Cooling, Lighting
Author: Norbert M. Lechner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1119585740

The essential guide to environmental control systems in building design For over 25 years Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture has provided architects and design professionals the knowledge and tools required to design a sustainable built environment at the schematic design stage. This Fifth Edition offers cutting-edge research in the field of sustainable architecture and design and has been completely restructured based on net zero design strategies. Reflecting the latest developments in codes, standards, and rating systems for energy efficiency, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture includes three new chapters: Retrofits: Best practices for efficient energy optimization in existing buildings Integrated Design: Strategies for synergizing passive and active design Design Tools: How to utilize the best tools to benchmark a building's sustainability and net zero potential Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture is a go-to resource for practicing professionals and students in the fields of environmental systems technology or design, environmental design systems, construction technology, and sustainability technology.

Heating, Cooling, Lighting

Heating, Cooling, Lighting
Author: Norbert Lechner
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1991-01-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Using a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach, presents detailed information based on concepts, rules, guidelines, intuition, and experience for architects in the areas of heating, cooling, and lighting at the schematic design stage. The data explored supports a three-tiered approach--load avoidance, using natural energy sources, and mechanical equipment. Among the topics covered are shading, thermal envelope, passive heating and cooling, electric lighting, and HVAC. Case studies illustrate how certain buildings use techniques at all three tiers for heating, cooling, and lighting. An appendix lists some of the more appropriate computer programs available to the architect for analysis at the schematic design stage.

Integral Sustainable Design

Integral Sustainable Design
Author: Mark DeKay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136539638

This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses Integral Theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework for sustainable designers through the four main perspectives of: Behaviours, Systems, Experiences and Cultures. It also uses human developmental theory to reframe sustainable design across four levels of complexity present in society: the Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Integral waves. Profuse with illustrations and examples, the book offers many conceptual tools including: - Twelve Principles of Integral Sustainable Design - Sixteen Prospects of Sustainable Design - Six Perceptual Shifts for Ecological Design Thinking - Five Levels of Sustainable Design Aesthetics - Ten Injunctions for Designing Connections to Nature

Integrated Strategies in Architecture

Integrated Strategies in Architecture
Author: Joan Zunde
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134236220

A thorough introduction to the concepts and technologies underlying the building design process enabling students to develop a holistic understanding of the process, the purpose of buildings and the specialisms and technologies involved.

The Green Studio Handbook

The Green Studio Handbook
Author: Alison G Kwok
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 807
Release: 2018-01-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317228634

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up to speed on system viability and sizing. Each of forty-three environmental strategies includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step guidance for integrating the strategy during the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary sizing, key issues to consider when implementing the strategy, and pointers to further resources. Ten new in-depth case studies illustrate diverse and successful green buildings integrated design projects and how the whole process comes together This third edition features updated tables and charts that will help to save energy, water, and material resources during the early stages of design. More than 500 sketches and full-color images illustrate how to successfully apply strategies. A glossary, a project index listing 105 buildings in 20 countries, updated tables and drawings, and I-P and SI units increase the usefulness of The Green Studio Handbook.

A House in the Sun

A House in the Sun
Author: Daniel A. Barber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0199394016

A House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in the 1940s and 1950s. It shows how resource limitations were seen as an opportunity for design to attain new relevance for social and cultural transformations.

The Architecture of Natural Light

The Architecture of Natural Light
Author: Henry Plummer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Light in architecture
ISBN: 9780500290361

This new paperback, is the first publication to consider the many effects of natural illumination in contemporary buildings. This comprehensive and thoughtful survey begins with a brief introduction to the history of architecture, seen through the advances and experimentation put forward by architects over the centuries.