Short The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture

Air, Health and Comfort
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-65868-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 404 Seiten

Reihe: Building Research and Information

Buildings urgently need to become more resilient to a changing climate whilst using very much less energy, but twentieth and early twenty-first century designers have persisted in making less and less resilient buildings more and more dependent on energy intensive artificial environments. For the last four or five decades the majority of buildings, however audacious their form, conform to a recurring constructional type, framed in steel or concrete, highly glazed with substantial service voids, lined in lightweight materials piping conditioned air. The implications of this formula proceeding unchallenged at the expense of the environment are unacceptable.

The type forms for our principle building types began in the mid twentieth century and need to be fundamentally re-invented. Prototypes for this reinvention were developing in very interesting ways until the introduction of ‘artificial weather’ in the late 1920s released design from the need to be responsive to climate. This book exhumes these lost ideas, reinforces them with contemporary scientific insight and proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings. It will be illustrated with a series of innovative buildings designed by the author's research-based practice since the late 1980s, which have won recognition and awards internationally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Short, C. Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How did Architecture alone make the weather within until the reliance on ‘artificial weather’? 2. Passive cooling in Mediterranean climates 3. Temperate climates: low energy public buildings 4. Natural Theatre environments 5. Passive and hybrid hospital buildings 6. Passive design in the more intense environment of the Urban Heat Island 7. Continental climates 8. Adaptation of the existing building stock

Über Autor(innen)

C. Alan Short is The Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. His research group develops passive and hybrid low-energy design strategies for non-domestic building types in different climates, both new-build and rebuild, projecting their future performance against current climate change predictions. Current funded research is investigating the sustainable design of hospitals, arts buildings and libraries. Short and his research collaborators also design and build innovative low energy buildings through the research-based practice Short and Associates Architects. He won the first ‘RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding Practice-located Research 2007’ and the ‘RIBA President’s Commendation for Outstanding University-located Research 2009’, ‘Green Building of the Year Award 1995’ and the ‘High Architecture Low Energy Award’.