Running Buildings on Natural Energy: Design Thinking for a Different Future

New thinking is essential for designing and occupying buildings that can keep us safe with unpredictable economies, climates, energy systems, and resource challenges. The 21st-century dream is of a better architecture that enables buildings to run for as much of a day or year as possible on local, clean, reliable, affordable natural energy. Many modern buildings are poorly designed for climate, leading to growing incidences of overheating experienced indoor. This book points the way towards understanding such problems and moving forward to a new generation of adaptable buildings designed and refurbished to run largely on natural energy and capable of evolving over time to keep occupants safe and comfortable.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 114 pages
\n Publication date: 31 March 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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New thinking is essential if we are to design and occupy buildings that can keep us safe in 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 must be of 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 indoors, 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 book points the way toward how we can understand such problems and move forward from over-mechanized, 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 the Architectural Science Review.

\n Weight: 338g\n
Dimension: 216 x 279 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367530112\n \n