Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects - Hardcover

Lechner, Norbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471628875 ISBN 13: 9780471628873

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1991

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Book by Lechner Norbert

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Designed to fill the need of architects and students for a text on the heating, cooling and lighting of buildings which does not assume a great deal of technical knowledge, this text is written with the designer's decision-making needs in mind. Aimed both at the architect, interior designer and student market, the book covers such topics as thermal comfort, mechanical heating and cooling systems, climate, solar heating and cooling, shading, site planning, daylight and artificial lighting and conservation, using generous graphs, photographs and sketches. The author makes liberal use of case studies, and includes a discussion on techniques of energy-conscious design. Appendices provide sun path diagrams and solar site evaluation tools, and a listing of appropriate microcomputer software.

Nota de la solapa

For the architectural designer, the schematic design stage offers the greatest opportunity to impact a buildings performance, efficiency, and appearance. The right decisionsmade early enoughsave millions of dollars in building and operating costs. Decisions that promote comfort and energy efficiency can also result in exciting design solutions. But getting the information essential to good design is not easy. It must be detailed enough to help in decision making, but not so detailed or unwieldy as to distract the designer from his mission of creating an integrated and coherent whole. Thats why this book was written by an architect to help other architects find the most relevant information and practical tools available to them when designing heating, cooling, and lighting systems. The design tools are mainly concepts, guidelines, handy rules of thumb, examples, and physical modeling. They not only solve problems but also promote the designers knowledge and intuition. This in-depth but uncluttered approachfree of distracting mathematical analysisaccounts for the books unique qualitative, rather than quantitative, outlook on design problems. Using a three-tiered approach, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects systematically and methodically seeks solutions to some of a buildings most difficult design problems. The first tier centers on load avoidance. Here the need for heating, cooling, and lighting is minimized by the design of the building itself. The second tier consists of making maximal use of a buildings natural energies. The third tier concerns itself with using mechanical equipment to meet the needs not met by tiers one and two. In a progressive format, each chapter, supplemented with case studies, builds fluency and mastery in design technique, allowing the designer to tackle each of the challenges inherent in tiers one through three. Striking photographs and drawings of buildings by famous architects not only illustrate specific ideas but also underscore the fundamental role of environmental systems as form-givers in architecture. Each topic is introduced by an historical overview, supplemented with numerous examples, firmly establishing the context of environmental systems in architectural design. Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects is that valuable architects and designers toola handbook of environmentally sound design techniques that will help you build enduring, aesthetically vibrant architecture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0471628875
• ISBN 13: 9780471628873
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 542