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This book explores energy consumption and thermal comfort in the
social housing sector in the South-eastern Mediterranean basin.
This book presents a novel methodological framework for the
optimisation of post-war social housing developments in the
South-eastern Mediterranean climate. The authors draw on
semi-structured interviews to present evidence on in-situ thermal
sensation and provide the results of walk-through and walk-in
thermographic surveys to highlight building fabric performance and
highlight anomalies in the building envelopes. The authors go on to
show how this data-informed retrofit design solution can be applied
to reduce household energy consumption, increase awareness of
domestic energy use and inform effective policy making decisions in
energy use in the South-eastern Mediterranean basin, including the
development of Energy Performance Certificate schemes. This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy
policy, energy efficiency and planning. It will also assist
architects, building engineers and other practitioners in closing
the gap between the current understanding and the actual
performance of existing residential building stocks in the
South-eastern Mediterranean basin.
This book critically examines the philosophy of the term
'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of
contemporary urban design scenarios. The aim of this book is to
provide scholarly yet accessible graphic novel illustrations to
inform narratives of urban manifestos. Through four select case
studies from the UK, Cyprus and Germany, the book highlights the
paradoxes and contradictions in architecture and provides detailed
evaluation of the limits and contemporary forms of sustainable
urban regeneration. The book proposes an 'utopian urban vision'
approach to social, political and cultural relations, trends and
tensions both locally and globally, and seeks to inspire an
awakening in architectural discourse. The book argues that the
philosophical undermining of transgression is the result of a
phenomenon from a different perspective - its philosophical
background, its social construction, its experimental research
process and its design implications on the city. As such, the book
provides a critical examination of how architectural design
interventions contribute to sustainable urban regeneration,
gentrification and can impact local communities. This book provides
a significant contribution to both undergraduate and postgraduate
students, as well as early career researchers working in
architecture, planning and sustainable urban design. It offers
effective guidance on adopting the state-of-the-art graphical
illustrations into their own design projects, while considering
contradictions between architectural discourse and the philosophy
of transgression.
This volume presents innovative work on innovative methods, tools
and practices aimed at supporting the transition of Asian and
Middle Eastern cities and regions towards a more smart and
sustainable dimension. The role of the built and urban environment
are becoming more pronounced in Asia and Middle East as the regions
continues to experience rapid increase in population and
urbanisation, which have only led to an increase in environmental
degradation but also rise in energy consumption and emissions.
Individual chapters covers timely topics such as sustainable
infrastructure, transportation, renewable energy, water and methods
supporting an innovative and sustainable development of urban
areas. Real-world examples are presented to highlight recent
developments and advancements in design, construction and
transportation infrastructures. This volume is part of the
proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and
Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Egypt 2017.
This book summarizes the latest studies regarding innovation in
urban design and planning. It shares many tips and insights about
sustainable solutions for the issues facing transport systems,
innovative digital technologies, and ICT trends. The book touches
upon the need to integrate the three fields of Architecture,
Engineering, and Technology that have become indispensable. This is
intended to respond to the increasing human needs and population
growth in cities on one hand and to develop a holistic approach
that helps overcome challenges to sustainability and environment
management on the other hand. With the power of engineering in
practice, problems of design and development once considered too
complex to be dealt with other than empirically, intuitively, or by
trial and error, are now becoming more solvable and applicable.
This book offers strategies and solutions that enable designers to
bring together knowledge in the fields of architecture,
engineering, and technology to overcome challenges facing in modern
times.
This book investigates energy use and measures to improve the
energy efficiency of public housing, using post-war social housing
development estates in Cyprus as its example. On this Mediterranean
island, which experiences hot and humid temperatures throughout the
year, residential buildings need to adapt to the climate to improve
the thermal comfort of their occupants. The book assesses the
domestic energy use of inefficiently built residential tower blocks
and their occupants' thermal comfort by considering the significant
impact of overheating risks on energy consumption and occupants'
thermal comfort and well-being, with the intention of evaluating
the current energy performance of base-case representative
residential tower blocks (RTBs). In particular, considering the
cooling energy demand in the summer, using Famagusta, Cyprus as a
case study. It seeks to identify the impact of occupancy patterns
and habitual adaptive behaviour of households on home energy
performance in order to provide bases for the information needed to
calibrate building energy performance of targeted households.
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