Healthy Homes: Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing

This book concentrates on residential buildings, notably mass housing and affordable strategies, for which new, more socially and health-oriented indicators are being developed. Provides practical design guidance based on scientific evidence.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2019
Publisher: RIBA Publishing

It is widely recognized that our housing stock urgently requires a transformation to achieve better energy performance levels. However, it is crucial to ensure that improving energy efficiency does not negatively impact the health, well-being, and comfort of building occupants. Numerous energy-neutral features can be incorporated at minimal or zero cost, resulting in positive effects on well-being. This book aims to provide an overview and exploration of these aspects of building design.

The concept of health and well-being has already been incorporated into design advice for workplaces, where productivity and absenteeism are commonly used as indicators. This book, however, focuses specifically on residential buildings, particularly mass housing and affordable strategies, for which new, more socially and health-oriented indicators are being developed.

The book offers practical design guidance based on scientific evidence, encompassing both physical and psychological well-being. It emphasizes the importance of the home and immediate domestic environment and is structured in a user-friendly manner for architects and designers.

By addressing the urgent need for energy transformation while prioritizing occupant health and well-being, this book contributes to the development of more sustainable and inclusive housing solutions.

Weight: 1054g
Dimension: 254 x 216 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781859467138