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Running Buildings on Natural Energy - Design Thinking for a Different Future (Paperback)
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Running Buildings on Natural Energy - Design Thinking for a Different Future (Paperback)
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New thinking is essential if we are to design and occupy buildings
that can keep us safe with unpredictable economies, climates,
energy systems and resource challenges. For too long designers have
relied on mechanical solutions for heating, cooling and ventilating
buildings. The 21st century dream has to be of a better
architecture that enables buildings to be run for as much of a day
or year as possible on local, clean, reliable, affordable natural
energy. Examples are included from different climates where the
fundamental building design is right, its orientation, opening
sizes, mass and its natural ventilation systems and pathways. Many
modern buildings are poorly designed for climate as manifested by
growing incidences of overheating experienced indoor, explored
here. The inability of many rating systems to record and improve
the climatic design of buildings raises questions about how they
deal with issues of basic building performance. This books points
the way towards how we can understand such problems, and move
forward from over-mechanised poorly designed buildings to a new
generation of adaptable buildings designed and refurbished to run
largely on natural energy and capable of evolving over time to keep
their occupants safe and comfortable, even in a warming world. The
chapters were originally published in Architectural Science Review.
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