DeKay / Brown Sun, Wind, and Light

Architectural Design Strategies
3. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-33288-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeKay, Mark

Brown, G. Z.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

WHAT'S IN THE SWL PRINTED
I NAVIGATION 20
SWL Printed Contents
SWL Electronic Contents
Additional Navigation Methods
II USING SUN, WIND & LIGHT 50
Buildings and Energy Use
Design Decision Chart for Net-Zero
III SYNERGIES 78
7 essential themes for net-zero design
IV BUNDLES 94
Bundles Explained
Selecting Bundles and Making Your Own
Some Fundamental Bundles: 9 sets strategy sets for high-performance design
V FAVORITE DESIGN TOOLS, condensed 194
VI FAVORITE DESIGN STRATEGIES, condensed 216
VII HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS 250
6 techniques for net-zero energy and carbon-neutral design
APPENDICES A-E 293
INDICES 339

Über Autor(innen)

MARK DeKAY is a registered architect and Associate Professor ofarchitecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is aFulbright Scholar, a Climate Reality Leadership Corps member,author of Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectivesand editor of the UT/RedVector.com online Sustainable Design andGreen Building continuing education program.
G. Z. BROWN is a registered architect and Professor ofArchitecture at the University of Oregon. He is director of the UOEnergy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) in Portland andEugene and coauthor of InsideOut: Design Procedures for PassiveEnvironmental Technologies and Natural Ventilation in NorthwestBuildings.