Integrating building performance with design an architecture student's guidebook

Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process. The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more t...

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Main Author: Grant, Elizabeth J. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
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Summary:Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process. The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 100 full color images to help you with your work. Topics include site, solar orientation, thermal comfort, building enclosure, daylighting, passive heating and cooling, active heating and cooling, indoor air quality, stormwater, and rainwater harvesting
Physical Description:219 pages colour, illustrated, photograph 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781138930933 (pbk)