Sustainable Design Methods for Architects
Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 224 mm x 283 mm, Gewicht: 1916 g
ISBN: 978-1-118-58242-8
Verlag: Wiley
Sustainable environmental control through building design
Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control systems with the emphasis on sustainable design. By detailing the many factors that contribute to the comfort in a building, this book helps architects minimize mechanical systems and energy usage over the life of the building by siting, building design, and landscaping to maximize natural heating, cooling, and lighting. This new fourth edition includes new information on integrated design strategies and designing for the Tropics. Resources include helpful case studies, checklists, diagrams, and a companion website featuring additional cases, an image bank, and instructor materials.
Designing buildings that require less energy to heat, cool, and light means allowing the natural energy of the sun and wind to reduce the burden on the mechanical and electrical systems. Basic design decisions regarding size, orientation, and form have a great impact on the sustainability, cost, and comfort of a building. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting provides detailed guidance for each phase of a design project. Readers will:
* Understand the concept of sustainability as applied to energy sources
* Review the basic principles of thermal comfort, and the critical role of climate
* Learn the fundamentals of solar responsive design, including active and passive solar systems as well as photovoltaics
* Discover how siting, architectural design, and landscaping can reduce the requirements for mechanical and electrical systems
In sustainable design, mechanical, and electrical systems should be used to only accomplish what the architect could not by the design of the building itself. With this in mind, designers require a comprehensive understanding of both the properties of energy and the human factors involved in thermal comfort. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the complete, industry-leading resource for designers interested in sustainable environmental control.
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Weitere Infos & Material
FOREWORD TO THE FOURTH EDITION xi
Edward Mazria
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION xiii
James Marston Fitch
PREFACE xv
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
1 HEATING, COOLING, AND LIGHTING AS FORM-GIVERS IN ARCHITECTURE 1
Key Ideas of Chapter 1 19
2 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND ENERGY SOURCES 21
Key Ideas of Chapter 2 46
3 BASIC PRINCIPLES 49
Key Ideas of Chapter 3 62
4 THERMAL COMFORT 63
Key Ideas of Chapter 4 76
5 CLIMATE 79
Data Tables for Climate Regions, United States 96
Key Ideas of Chapter 5 137
6 SOLAR GEOMETRY 139
Key Ideas of Chapter 6 164
7 PASSIVE SOLAR 165
Key Ideas of Chapter 7 195
8 PHOTOVOLTAICS AND ACTIVE SOLAR 197
Key Ideas of Chapter 8 228
9 SHADING AND LIGHT COLORS 229
Key Ideas of Chapter 9 283
10 PASSIVE COOLING 285
Key Ideas of Chapter 10 324
11 SITE DESIGN, COMMUNITY PLANNING, AND LANDSCAPING 325
Key Ideas of Chapter 11 363
12 LIGHTING 365
Key Ideas of Chapter 12 398
13 DAYLIGHTING 399
Key Ideas of Chapter 13 450
14 ELECTRIC LIGHTING 453
Key Ideas of Chapter 14 482
15 THE THERMAL ENVELOPE: KEEPING WARM AND STAYING COOL 483
Key Ideas of Chapter 15 526
16 MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT FOR HEATING AND COOLING 529
Key Ideas of Chapter 16 574
17 TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE 577
Key Ideas of Chapter 17 594
18 RECOMMENDED LOW ENERGY CASE STUDIES 595
19 CHECKLIST FOR DESIGNING INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS 599
APPENDIX A HORIZONTAL SUN-PATH DIAGRAMS 605
APPENDIX B VERTICAL SUN-PATH DIAGRAMS 617
APPENDIX C SOLAR ALTITUDE AND AZIMUTH ANGLES 629
APPENDIX D METHODS FOR ESTIMATING THE HEIGHT OF TREES, BUILDINGS, ETC. 635
APPENDIX E SUNDIALS 639
APPENDIX F SUN-PATH MODELS 649
APPENDIX G THE WATER TABLE FOR VENTILATION STUDIES 659
APPENDIX H SITE EVALUATION TOOLS 661
APPENDIX I HELIODONS 669
APPENDIX J TABLES OF R-VALUES 675
APPENDIX K RESOURCES 679
APPENDIX L CONVERSION FACTORS BETWEEN THE INCH-POUND (I-P) SYSTEM AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI) 683
BIBLIOGRAPHY 687
INDEX 693
