Environmental design sourcebook / created by Will Mclean and Pete Silver

Includes bibliography and index

Cover Half Title Copyright Page Title Page Acknowledgements About the Authors Contents Introduction 1 Climate and Human Comfort 1.01 Human Comfort 1.02 Solar Geometry 1.03 Wind, Air Movement and Ventilation 1.04 Acoustics: Noise, Sound, Music and Architecture 1.05 Designing for Different Climatic Zones John Farrell (xc02) 1.06 The Climatic Envelope 1.07 Thermal Mass 1.08 Thermal Insulation 1.09 Computational Fluid Dynamics 1.10 Psychrometric Chart: Extending the Comfort Envelope 2 Materials Technology 2.01 Bio-Polymer: Made of Air 2.02 Bio-Polymer: Spatium Gelatum 2.03 Cement Replacement Materials 2.04 Composites: Fibre-Reinforced Polymer 2.05 Heat Motors 2.06 Hempcrete 2.07 Lime 2.08 Mycelium Biofabrication 2.09 Paper Buildings 2.10 Thermobimetal: Bloom and Oculus 3 Construction Technology 3.01 Bamboo Construction: San Pablo Primary School 'Eco-Salon' 3.02 Earthen Architecture: Drone-Sprayed Earth Mortar 3.03 Earthen Architecture: Rammed Earth Construction 3.04 Fabric Formwork: Minishell 3.05 Pneumatic Structures: Desert Cloud 3.06 Steel Monocoque Construction: The Neuron Pod 3.07 Steel Upcycled Shipping Containers: Quik House 3.08 Tensegrity Structures: Tension Pavilion 3.09 Timber Gridshell: Mannheim Multihalle 3.10 Cross-Laminated Timber 4 Heating, Cooling and Remediation 4.01 Bio-Remediation: Eco-Machines® 4.02 Bio-Remediation: Smog-Eating Facade 4.03 Evaporative Cooling 4.04 Heat Pump (Air Source): Bunhill 2 Energy Centre 4.05 Heat Pump (Ground Source): Energy Piles® 4.06 Heliostats: Rjukan Sun Mirrors 4.07 Passive Solar Heating: Zome House 4.08 Thermal Labyrinth: Federation Square 4.09 Thermal Storage: The Roofpond 4.10 Wind Catcher: Yazd, Iran 5 Building Case Studies 5.01 Amphibious House 5.02 The Cork House 5.03 Dymaxion House 5.04 Eastgate Centre 5.05 Halley VI 5.06 House in a Garden 5.07 Ashen Cabin 5.08 Media ICT 5.09 Mongolian Ger (Yurt) 5.10 1970s House, St Albans Afterword Further Reading Notes Index Picture Credits

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle, embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas, this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction, material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat, cool, moderate and mitigate, it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects), Ashen Cabin (HANNAH), Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll, Cullinan Studio, McGurk Architects and Colloide), Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland, Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne), Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller), Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce), Neuron Pod (Will Alsop - aLL Design and AKT II), Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics, bamboo construction, biopolymer, bioremediation, CLT, climatic envelope, computational fluid dynamics, earthen architecture, fabric formwork, hempcrete, insulation, mycelium biofabrication, paper construction, passive solar heating, pneumatic structures, solar geometry, tensegrity structures, thermal mass and more