The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture

Air, Comfort and Climate

C. Alan Short (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

404 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-65146-3 (ISBN)

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The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the natural physics of airflow and fluid dynamics to make good, comfortable interior spaces. In exhuming these ideas and reinforcing them with contemporary scientific insight, the book proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings.

C. Alan Short was educated at Trinity College Cambridge and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He has been the Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge since 2001 and his work focuses on the design of sustainable buildings. He will become the ninth President of Clare Hall Cambridge in August 2020, a seven year term. He has also designed a sequence of very low energy buildings, one of very few architects in the UK deeply involved in Higher Education and Research.

1. Airs, Fears, Dangers 2. Climate and its Annihilation 3. Temperate Climates 4. Urban Heat Islands 5. Theatres 6. Hospitals 7. Mediterranean climates 8. Continental climates 9. Existing buildings 10. Delivering the ‘Recovery’

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	BRI Research Series
Zusatzinfo	13 Tables, color; 106 Line drawings, color; 203 Halftones, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	860 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	1-138-65146-X / 113865146X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-65146-3 / 9781138651463
Zustand	Neuware