Holistic housing : concepts, design strategies and processes /

Holistic housing : concepts, design strategies and processes / [authors], Hans Drexler, Sebastian El khouli ; [essays, Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Bob Gysin ; translation from German into English, Laura Bruce, Raymond D. Peat, Elizabeth Schwaiger]

Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes; is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life cycle'. A system of criteria speci...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Drexler, Hans (Hans Heinrich), 1972- (Author), Khouli, Sebastian El (Author)
Other Authors: Gauzin-Müller, Dominique, Gysin, Bob, Bruce, Laura, 1959- (Translator), Peat, Raymond D. (Translator), Schwaiger, Elizabeth (Translator)
Other title:Nachhaltige Wohnkonzepte. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: München, Germany : Edition Detail : Institut für internationale Architektur-Dokumentation GmbH & Co., 2012.
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Edition Detail.
Subjects:
Sustainable architecture.
Sustainable buildings > Design and construction.
Architecture > Environmental aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 2 POSITIONS
  • 2.1 A short history of sustainable architecture
  • 2.2 Sustainable design. A statement
  • PART 1: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE. BASICS AND STRATEGIES
  • 3 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN.
  • 3.1 Sense and sensibility of sustainable design 3.2 Systemic approach
  • 3.3 Sustainable design is contextual design and process orientation
  • 3.4 Aspects of sustainable design
  • Local versus global
  • The temporal dimension of architecture.
  • Identifying the basic parameters (cause and leverage) instead of optimising and minimising the negative effects (end of pipe) Low-tech versus high-tech
  • Efficiency, consistency, sufficiency
  • Doing the right things and doing things right
  • 4 THE BUILDING AND ITS CONTEXT.
  • 4.1 Impact: the building's influence on context The global consequences of human building
  • The city as a model of the future
  • The effect building has on the environment
  • Lighting and shadows
  • Urban ventilation.
  • Urban building block: the building as added value for the urban environment The water cycle
  • 4.2 Building performance: the effects of urban design and the physical
  • Site factors and urban structure (macro level)
  • Linking the building to the urban structure.

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