The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture - Air, Comfort and Climate (Hardcover)

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the natural physics of airflow and fluid dynamics to make good, comfortable interior spaces. In exhuming these ideas and reinforcing them with contemporary scientific insight, the book proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	BRI Research Series
Release date:	2017
First published:	2016
Authors:	C .Alan Short
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-82440-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design
LSN:	0-415-82440-0
Barcode:	9780415824408

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