Heating With Wolves Cooling With Cacti

Author : Negin Imani,Brenda Vale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000541878

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Heating with Wolves, Cooling with Cacti by Negin Imani,Brenda Vale Pdf

This book describes the detailed process behind the development of a comprehensive thermo-bio-architectural framework (the ThBA). This framework systematically connects the thermal performance requirements of a building to relevant solutions found in the natural world. This is the first time that architecture has been connected to biology in this manner. The book provides an in-depth understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in animals and plants and links these to equivalent solutions in architectural design. The inclusion of this fundamental knowledge, along with the systematic process of accessing it, should open up new avenues for the generation of energy efficient and sustainable buildings.

Author : Negin Imani,Brenda Vale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000541908

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Heating with Wolves, Cooling with Cacti by Negin Imani,Brenda Vale Pdf

This book describes the detailed process behind the development of a comprehensive thermo-bio-architectural framework (the ThBA). This framework systematically connects the thermal performance requirements of a building to relevant solutions found in the natural world. This is the first time that architecture has been connected to biology in this manner. The book provides an in-depth understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in animals and plants and links these to equivalent solutions in architectural design. The inclusion of this fundamental knowledge, along with the systematic process of accessing it, should open up new avenues for the generation of energy efficient and sustainable buildings.

Author : Jenny E. Sabin,Peter Lloyd Jones (Spatial biologist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture and biology
ISBN : 113878396X

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LabStudio by Jenny E. Sabin,Peter Lloyd Jones (Spatial biologist) Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword: Reinventing Nature -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Design Research in Practice: Methodology and Approach with Historical Precedents and Case Studies -- 1 Bioconstructivisms -- Trans-Disciplinary Research Practice: Contemporary Case Studies -- 2 Design Research in Practice: A New Model -- Part II Design Computation Tools for Architecture and Science: New Tools and Forms -- Introduction to Design Computation Tools for Architecture and Science: New Tools and Forms -- 3 Networking: Elasticity and Branching Morphogenesis -- Comments on the Role of the Matrix -- New Architectural Concerns -- 4 Motility: Adaptive Architecture and Personalized Medicine -- Topologically Free Cells -- Avoiding Biomimicry -- Visualizing in Another Dimension -- Positioning Mechanism -- Newness -- 5 Surface Design: The Mammary Gland as a Model of Architectural Connectivity -- On Geometry and Cellular Mechanics -- Biological Data and Intuition -- Case Study: Understanding Behavioral Rule Sets through Cell Motility -- Case Study: Motility and the Observation of Change -- Case Study: Microfabrication: Spatializing Cell Signaling and Sensing Mechanisms -- 6 BioInspired Materials and Design -- Part III Architectural Prototyping: Human-Scale Material Systems and Big Datascapes -- 7 The New Science of Making -- 8 Matter Design Computation: Biosynthesis and New Paradigms of Making -- Project: Branching Morphogenesis, 2008 -- Project: Ground Substance, 2009 -- Workshop: Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design, 2010 -- Part IV Personalized Architecture and Medicine -- 9 eSkin: BioInspired Adaptive Materials -- 10 myThread Pavilion -- Interview: RE(IN)FORM(ULAT)ING Health Care via Medicine + Creativity -- Conclusion -- Notes on Contributors -- Image Credits -- Index

Author : Graeme Hopkins,Christine Goodwin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643103085

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Living Architecture by Graeme Hopkins,Christine Goodwin Pdf

Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world are becoming denser, with greater built form resulting in more hard surfaces and less green space, leaving little room for vegetation or habitat. One way of creating more natural environments within cities is to incorporate green roofs and walls in new buildings or to retrofit them in existing structures. This practice has long been established in Europe and elsewhere, and now Australia and New Zealand have begun to embrace it. The installation of green roofs and walls has many benefits, including the management of stormwater and improved water quality by retaining and filtering rainwater through the plants’ soil and root uptake zone; reducing the ‘urban heat island effect’ in cities; increasing real estate values around green roofs and reducing energy consumption within the interior space by shading, insulation and reducing noise level from outside; and providing biodiversity opportunities via a vertical link between the roof and the ground. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from students and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and ecology, through to members of the community interested in how they can more effectively use the rooftops and walls of their homes or workplaces to increase green open space in the urban environment.

Author : Hassan Fathy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226239149

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Architecture for the Poor by Hassan Fathy Pdf

Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.

Author : Peter Szalapaj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135392147

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Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process by Peter Szalapaj Pdf

Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process introduces the reader to new developments in the computer modelling of design form in contemporary architectural practice through a series of detailed case studies. The book illustrates how evolving design practices use and exploit the potential of new computing technologies in a wide range of areas and application. A central thesis of this book is that technology follows design demand, rather than design adjusting to available new technology. Designers are not merely passive recipients of prescribed computing tools and techniques. Instead, they are increasingly able to express their intuitive design ideas through the rational medium of computing. The book features several contemporary building projects, each of which introduces a range of CAD and computing issues based upon the work of creative architectural and engineering design practices. These include the offices of Frank O. Gehry, Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Anthony Hunt Associates, Peter Hubner, Szyskowitz-Kowalski, and Faulkner Brown. All these examples show what architects need to know and the skills they need to acquire to use advanced CAD technology.

Author : David Crichton,Fergus Nicol,Sue Roaf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136444562

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Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by David Crichton,Fergus Nicol,Sue Roaf Pdf

From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events. Three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of environmental change. The authors explore the growing urgency for mitigation and adaptation responses that deal with the resulting challenges. Theoretical information sits alongside practical design guidelines, so architects, designers and planners can not only see clearly what problems they face, but also find the solutions they need, in order to respond to power and water supply needs. Considers use of materials, structures, site issues and planning in order to provide design solutions. Examines recent climate events in the US and UK and looks at how architecture was successful or not in preventing building damage. Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change is an essential source, not just for architects, engineers and planners facing the challenges of designing our building for a changing climate, but also for everyone involved in their production and use.

Author : Hayley Isaacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and architecture
ISBN : OCLC:744561137

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Hylozoic Ground by Hayley Isaacs Pdf

Author : Linda Weintraub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520273610

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To Life! by Linda Weintraub Pdf

This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

Author : Mabel Osgood Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Four-Footed Americans by Mabel Osgood Wright Pdf

Author : Maibritt Pedersen Zari,Peter Connolly,Mark Southcombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000066517

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Ecologies Design by Maibritt Pedersen Zari,Peter Connolly,Mark Southcombe Pdf

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understanding of the primary entanglement of the human species with the rest of the world. The use of the term ‘ecology’ with design tends to refer to how to integrate ecologies into design and cities and be understood in a biologically-scientific and technical sense. In practice, this scientific-technical knowledge tends to be only loosely employed. The notion of ecology is also often used metaphorically in relation to the social use of space and cities. This book argues that what it calls the ‘biological’ and ‘social’ senses of ecology are both important and require distinctly different types of knowledge and practice. It proposes that science needs to be taken much more seriously in ‘biological ecologies’, and that ‘social ecologies’ can now be understood non-metaphorically as assemblages. Furthermore, this book argues that design practice itself can be understood much more rigorously, productively and relevantly if understood ecologically. The plural term ‘ecologies design’ refers to these three types of ecological design. This book is unique in bringing these three perspectives on ecological design together in one place. It is significant in proposing that a strong sense of ecologies design practice will only follow from the interconnection of these three types of practice. Ecologies Design brings together leading international experts and relevant case studies in the form of edited research essays, case studies and project work. It provides an overarching critique of current ecologically-oriented approaches and offers evidence and exploration of emerging and effective methods, techniques and concepts. It will be of great interest to academics, professionals and students in the built environment disciplines.

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547174585

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Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Abbe Mouret's Transgression" by Émile Zola. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Phillip E. Pack
Publisher : Cliffs Notes
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780358353522

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Cliffsnotes AP Biology 2021 Exam by Phillip E. Pack Pdf

CliffsNotes AP Biology 2021 Examgives you exactly what you need to score a 5 on the exam: concise chapter reviews on every AP Biology subject, in-depth laboratory investigations, and full-length model practice exams to prepare you for the May 2021 exam. Revised to even better reflect the new AP Biology exam, this test-prep guide includes updated content tailored to the May 2021 exam. Features of the guide focus on what AP Biology test-takers need to score high on the exam: Reviews of all subject areas In-depth coverage of the all-important laboratory investigations Two full-length model practice AP Biology exams Every review chapter includes review questions and answers to pinpoint problem areas.

Author : Mark DeKay,G. Z. Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470945780

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Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies by Mark DeKay,G. Z. Brown Pdf

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

Author : G. Z. Brown,Mark DeKay
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471348775

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Sun, Wind & Light by G. Z. Brown,Mark DeKay Pdf

Architecture/Environment How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably. It also: * Applies the latest passive energy and lighting design research * Organizes information by architectural elements at three scales: * building groups, individual buildings, and building parts * Brings design strategies to life with examples and practical design tools * Features: * 109 analysis techniques and design strategies * More than 750 illustrations, sizing graphs, and tables * Both inch-pound and metric units