The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture: Air, Comfort and Climate (Building Research and Information)

By: C. Alan Short

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 378 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317658696
Related ISBNs:: 9781315765853, 9781138651463, 9781138651463, 9780415824408, 9780415824408, 9781315765853, 9781138651463, 9781138651463, 9780415824408, 9780415824408, 9780415824408, 9781138651463, 9781315765853
Publisher:: CRC Press
Date of Addition:: 04/22/19
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Technology, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.