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Environmental Design Sourcebook : Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

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Title: Environmental Design Sourcebook : Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment
Author: Pete Silver, William McLean
ISBN: 1859469604 / 9781859469606
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 208
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2021
Availability: In Stock
     
 
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How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle, embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas, this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction, material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat, cool, moderate and mitigate, it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects), Ashen Cabin (HANNAH), Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll, Cullinan Studio, McGurk Architects and Colloide), Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland, Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne), Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller), Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce), Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II), Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics, bamboo construction, biopolymer, bioremediation, CLT, climatic envelope, computational fluid dynamics, earthen architecture, fabric formwork, hempcrete, insulation, mycelium biofabrication, paper construction, passive solar heating, pneumatic structures, solar geometry, tensegrity structures, thermal mass and more.

Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Climate and Human Comfort
Chapter 2 : Materials Technology
Chapter 3 : Construction Technology
Chapter 4 : Heating, Cooling and Remediation
Chapter 5 : Building Case Studies

Afterword
Further Reading
Notes
Index
Picture Credits

 
 
 
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