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This book is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It takes the form of an annotated details book, with photos taken from live construction sites, with the content based around diagrams, drawings and photos by the author, which demonstrates valuable best practice knowledge and advice.0Chapter 1 is an introduction to the performance gap and the quality of design and construction in new build homes, explaining the typical construction sequence of homebuilding, and highlights common issues that designers need to engage with. Chapters 2-7 look at each construction fabric in turn, including a series of detailed drawings, diagrams and photos illustrating the key elements of good design. Chapter 8 contains a checklist of all performance gap issues that designers need to look for.0This book will provide valuable guidance to architects and designers on how to improve their detailing at construction stage, and therefore the overall quality of design and performance of new homes.

Architecture and energy conservation. --- Buildings --- Architecture and energy conservation --- Energy conservation and architecture --- Energy efficient buildings --- Energy conservation --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Environmental engineering --- 69.504 --- 69.504 Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Zero energy buildings --- Built environment

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Ephemeral phenomena like fire, precipitation, shade, and wind have emerged as important contemporary protagonists for environmental design due to their dynamic impact on buildings and cities. The importance of including these forces in architecture has gained rapid momentum in the global quest for sustainability. This book investigates the history, theory and applications of climatic design in the built environment examining architecture and landscapes from various time periods. Based on a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the National University of Singapore, the book brings together contributing authors from Australia, Singapore, and the United States. "Dry", "Wet", "Cool" and "Hot" divide the book into categories through which a wide array of representational topics are covered ―from dust storms and clouds, to ice and bushfires. A concluding section presents project examples for exploratory application in the design of architecture.

Sustainable architecture --- Architecture and climate. --- Architecture and climate --- Architecture --- Climate and architecture --- Climatology --- Climatic factors --- Influence of climate --- Architecture et climat. --- Design durable. --- 69.03 --- 69.504 --- 69.504 Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- 69.03 Size, permanence, location and shape of buildings --- Size, permanence, location and shape of buildings --- Architecture et climat --- Climat --- Temps (météorologie)

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"Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II-before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available-Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings, and offers a historical foundation for today's zero-carbon design"--

Architecture and climate. --- Architecture, Modern --- Themes, motives --- Climat --- Changement climatique --- Architecture contemporaine --- Architecture and climate --- Architecture --- Climate and architecture --- Climatology --- Climatic factors --- Influence of climate --- 69.03 --- 69.504 --- 69.03 Size, permanence, location and shape of buildings --- Size, permanence, location and shape of buildings --- 69.504 Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Mouvement moderne --- Architecture climatique --- Themes, motives. --- Architecture et climat --- Thèmes, motifs

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In architecture, a facade is the skin of a building. This book demonstrates just how important this 'skin' is by illustrating its impact on energy efficiency. Sunlight, ventilation, low energy, noise minimisation, rainwater harvest, prefabricated components, flexibility, etc., all the environmental elements are taken into consideration in the design process and are illustrated here with sufficiently detailed images, drawings, and articles.

Façades. --- Architecture durable. --- Facades --- Sustainable architecture --- Architectural fronts --- Fronts (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Exterior walls --- Design and construction --- Environmental aspects --- Details --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design --- 692.23 --- 72:574 --- Gevelconstructies ; buitenmuren --- Constructie-elementen van gebouwen ; buitenmuren, gevels --- Architectuur en ecologie --- 692.2 --- Façades --- Gevelbekleding --- Gevels --- 69.504 --- 69.504 Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- 692.2 Walls. Partitions --- Walls. Partitions

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This record of some of the finest work known in the field of green architecture shows a series of new and important buildings and designs that truly represent the moment of this time of change.

urbanization --- dwellings --- woningen --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- urbanisatie --- Private houses --- public spaces --- Environmental planning --- sustainable development --- Public buildings --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- openbare ruimte --- Sustainable architecture --- Architecture --- 69.504 --- 72.039 --- 72:574 --- Duurzame architectuur --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 69.504 Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design --- Environmental aspects --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Sustainable architecture. --- Environmental aspects.