Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. — 175 p. — ISBN: 978-1-56898-879-5. For Arthur Andersson and Chris Wise, the fundamental elements that give buildings meaning are found in nature. Imbuing day-to-day activities with poetry and awe, their designs address both pragmatic needs and the psychological yearning for refuge and contemplation, centering and escape, joy and comfort....
LSU Press, 2010. — 188 c. — ISBN: 978-0807135518. Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in FROM BAUHAUS TO ECOHOUSE, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture has been ongoing for nearly a century. By exploring key...
2nd edition. — Island Press, 2015. — 280 р. — ISBN: 978-1610913393. As world population grows, and more people move to cities and suburbs, they place greater stress on the operating system of our whole planet. But urbanization and increasing densities also present our best opportunity for improving sustainability, by transforming urban development into desirable, lower-carbon,...
Routledge, 2020. — 364 p. — ISBN 978-0-415-84215-0. Visually enriched with over 250 photographs and drawings, Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades is an essential reference guide for understanding the types and functions of double-skin façades. Author Mary Ben Bonham examines the history and continuing potential of double-skin architecture, informing on the variety of approaches...
Green Books Ltd, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-1-903998-731. Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, or a super-insulated (and cost-efficient) house, you need to know the essential elements of the selfbuild process. In The Green Self-Build Book, Jon Broome gives an overview of the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction techniques, and presents...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2011. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 1849713111; ISBN13: 9781849713115. Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green...
Wiley, 2014. — 289 p. — ISBN: 1118866495, 9781118866498. “Green Building Illustrated is a must-read for students and professionals in the building industry. The combination of incredibly expressive illustrations and accessible technical writing make concepts of green building on paper as intuitive as they would be if you toured a space with experts in sustainable building.”...
Springer, 2015. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-18650-4. Providing a methodology for evaluating indoor thermal comfort with a focus on children, this book presents an in-depth examination of children’s perceptions of comfort. Divided into two sections, it first presents a history of thermal comfort, the human body and environmental parameters, common thermal comfort indexes, and...
Springer, 2008. — 236 с. Экология и современная архитектура. Книга рассказывает о современных подходах к решению этой насущной проблемы. как вписать зеленые насаждения в дизайн зданий. Как сделать так, чтобы архитектура соотносилась с гармонией природы, чтобы человек ощущал в помещениях комфортно и естественно. Множество красочных фотографий, иллюстрирующих современные решения...
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008. — 166 p. — (GreenSource Books). — ISBN10: 0071544119, ISBN13: 9780071544115. Improve Your Green Design Skills with 24 Full-Color Case Studies of Sustainable Structures and Facilities! Turn to Emerald Architecture for a full-color collection of 24 in-depth case studies of sustainable structures and facilities. Packed with more than 200...
Routledge, 2005. — 269 p. — ISBN 0415700450. Buildings are responsible for 50% of C02 emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the...
RIBA Publishing, 2022. — 144 p. — ISBN 9781914124051. Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. This volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality. An esteemed group of international voices amplify interactions involving sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia...
Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2013. — 441 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-01854-5. Conveniently organized and packed with robust technical content and clear explanations of key principles Written by an architect who is the director of sustainability at a global architecture firm, Net Zero Energy Design is a practical guide for architects and related construction professionals who want to...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2019. — 455 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-816722-9. Sustainable Design and Build provides a complete reference for engineers and scientists who want to conduct sustainability research. The book begins with a rudimentary discussion of environmental pollution and energy that is followed by their applications for solving problems in construction processes and...
Routledge, 2023. — 668 p. — ISBN 978-1-032-02390-8. This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. Exploring the innovation of materials, habitats, landscapes, and infrastructures, it...
Emerald Group Publishing, 2019. — 400 p. This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets...
Second Edition. — Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017. — 1042 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-810433-0. This Handbook, Second Edition directly addresses the needs of building professionals interested in the evolving principles, strategies, and concepts of green/sustainable design. Written in an easy to understand style, the book is updated to reflect new standards to LEED. In addition, readers...
Second Edition. — CRC Press, 2017. — 487 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-1429-7. The energy used to operate buildings is one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. While it is possible to reduce emissions through climate-responsive design, many architects are not trained to do this. Filling an urgent need for a design reference in this emerging field, this book...
John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2011. — 304 p.— ISBN-13 9781118014752. Discover sustainable methods for designing crucial building systems for architects. This indispensable companion to Norbert Lechner's landmark volume Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, Third Edition completes the author's mission to cover all topics in the field of sustainable...
5th ed. — Wiley, 2022. — 832 p. — ISBN 978-1119585749, 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...
5th ed. — Wiley, 2022. — 832 p. — ISBN 978-1119585749, 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...
Tuttle Publishing, 2015. — 241 p. — ISBN 978-4-8053-1283-4. Given its history of architectural and product design using natural, reusable materials, its powerful aesthetics and cutting-edge technology, the world looks to Japan for inspiration and leadership in the field of sustainable design. But what is sustainability? Is a building full of energy-saving features worthy of...
ISTE Press-Wiley, 2018. — 203 p. — (Architecture and Computer Science Set: Volume 1). — ISBN: 978-1-78630-180-2. This book can be first considered as a complete synthesis of the EcCoGen ANR project (2011-2012), involving researchers from different French labs (including MAP) and domains, breaking major difficulties of the real-time generative design in the early stages of a...
Third Edition — Architectural Press, 2007. — 488 p. — ISBN 9780080550633, 0750669039 Now in its 3rd edition, the bestselling Ecohouse continues to be both a technical guide and an inspiration for thousands of architects, designers and eco-builders all over the world. As the need to slow climate change becomes increasingly urgent, growing numbers of people are looking to...
Architectural Press, 2001. — 353 p. — ISBN: 0-7506-4904-6 Ecohouse is an exciting and timely text that tells you how to design low energy, environmentally friendly buildings today. It also provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and stepping stones towards the zero-carbon emission buildings of tomorrow. Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and...
Birkhäuser Architecture, 2003. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 978-3764307479. Advanced new technologies and sophisticated planning systems for architecture which look beyond fossil fuels to the future. In the very near future energy-efficient building will cease to be the exception but will be the rule. Whether insulating glazing, multifunctional facades or organic solar cells, there have...
Artech House, 2017. — 298 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60807-959-9. This authoritative new resource provides a comprehensive review of the current approaches to the design and construction of sustainable buildings. This hand-on guide features global case studies with practical examples of both successful and unsuccessful designs. The whole system approach to integrated design is clearly...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2019. — 478 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811749-1. This book provides practitioners with a tool to help them select technologies that are financially advantageous even though they have a higher initial cost. Chapters provide an overview of LCA and how it can be used in conjunction with other indicators to manage construction. Topics covered include indoor...
Wiley, Blackwell, Chichester, 2014. — 277 p. — ISBN: 1118477103. How to adapt existing building stock is a problem being addressed by local and state governments worldwide. In most developed countries we now spend more on building adaptation than on new construction and there is an urgent need for greater knowledge and awareness of what happens to commercial buildings over...
М.: Алгоритм, 2005. — 416 с. — ISBN: 5-9265-0135-0. Времена меняются, меняются вместе с ними и требования к произведениям человеческого труда. Так компьютер пятидесятилетней давности, как и кремниевое ружье, теперь музейные экспонаты. Особую актуальность это имеет применительно к современному дому. Сейчас конструкции домов, медленно менявшиеся на протяжении столетий,...
Учебное пособие. — Саратов: СГТУ, 2006. — 76 с. Совсем недавно энергообеспечение зданий за счет солнечной энергии в России считалось экономически невыгодным, тогда как за рубежом: в Канаде, Финляндии, США, Японии, Австралии, Израиле, Греции и многих других странах такие дома давно уже существовали. В связи с постоянным ростом стоимости энергоносителей в России постепенно стал...
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