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Synopsis
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 sourcesReview the basic principles of thermal comfort, and the critical role of climateLearn the fundamentals of solar responsive design, including active and passive solar systems as well as photovoltaicsDiscover 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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For the architectural designer, the schematic design stage offers the greatest opportunity to impact a building’s performance, efficiency, and appearance. The right decisions—made early enough—save millions of dollars in building and operating costs. Decisions that promote comfort and energy efficiency can also result in exciting design solutions. But getting the information essential to good design is not easy. It must be detailed enough to help in decision making, but not so detailed or unwieldy as to distract the designer from his mission of creating an integrated and coherent whole. That’s why this book was written by an architect to help other architects find the most relevant information and practical tools available to them when designing heating, cooling, and lighting systems. The design tools are mainly concepts, guidelines, handy rules of thumb, examples, and physical modeling. They not only solve problems but also promote the designer’s knowledge and intuition. This in-depth but uncluttered approach—free of distracting mathematical analysis—accounts for the book’s unique qualitative, rather than quantitative, outlook on design problems. Using a three-tiered approach, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects systematically and methodically seeks solutions to some of a building’s most difficult design problems. The first tier centers on load avoidance. Here the need for heating, cooling, and lighting is minimized by the design of the building itself. The second tier consists of making maximal use of a building’s natural energies. The third tier concerns itself with using mechanical equipment to meet the needs not met by tiers one and two. In a progressive format, each chapter, supplemented with case studies, builds fluency and mastery in design technique, allowing the designer to tackle each of the challenges inherent in tiers one through three. Striking photographs and drawings of buildings by famous architects not only illustrate specific ideas but also underscore the fundamental role of environmental systems as form-givers in architecture. Each topic is introduced by an historical overview, supplemented with numerous examples, firmly establishing the context of environmental systems in architectural design. Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects is that valuable architect’s and designer’s tool—a handbook of environmentally sound design techniques that will help you build enduring, aesthetically vibrant architecture.
About the Author
About the author NORBERT LECHNER, Registered Architect, is Associate Professor in the Building Science Department, School of Architecture, Auburn University. He is also a consultant to design studios on matters of environmental systems and structures. He received his bachelor of architecture degree from the City University of New York and his master of science in architectural technology from Columbia University. He is a frequent contributor to Architectural Lighting magazine.
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