Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

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By G. Z. Brown and Mark DeKay

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Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies is a comprehensive guide on designing buildings that harness natural elements to enhance energy efficiency. The fully updated third edition explores how to use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural illumination. Filled with hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies, it equips architects and designers with tools to create sustainable buildings that respond to their environment.
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This book is ideal for architects, designers, and students seeking practical, illustrated strategies to incorporate passive solar design, natural ventilation, and daylighting into their projects.

This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Description

An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.

This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Organised to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind, and light.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470945780

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 March 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: Drawings: 150 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 234.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 432

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture G. Z. Brown Mark DeKay Non-Fiction

About the Author

MARK DeKAY is a registered architect and Associate Professor ofarchitecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is aFulbright Scholar, a Climate Reality Leadership Corps member,author of Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectivesand editor of the UT/RedVector.com online Sustainable Design andGreen Building continuing education program. G. Z. BROWN is a registered architect and Professor ofArchitecture at the University of Oregon. He is director of the UOEnergy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) in Portland andEugene and coauthor of InsideOut: Design Procedures for PassiveEnvironmental Technologies and Natural Ventilation in NorthwestBuildings.