The Architecture Of Natural Cooling

Author : Brian Ford,Rosa Schiano-Phan,Juan A. Vallejo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351810005

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The Architecture of Natural Cooling by Brian Ford,Rosa Schiano-Phan,Juan A. Vallejo Pdf

Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. It provides architects, engineers and policy makers with a ‘how-to’ guide to the application of natural cooling in new and existing buildings. It demonstrates, through reference to numerous examples, that natural cooling is viable in most climates around the world. This completely revised and expanded second edition includes: An overview of natural cooling past and present. Guidance on the principles and strategies that can be adopted. A review of the applicability of different strategies. Explanation of simplified tools for performance assessment. A review of components and controls. A detailed evaluation of case studies from the USA, Europe, India and China. This book is not just for the technical specialist, as it also provides a general grounding in how to avoid or minimise air-conditioning. Importantly, it demonstrates that understanding our environment, rather than fighting it, will help us to live sustainably in our rapidly warming world.

Author : David Bainbridge,Ken Haggard
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781603584203

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Passive Solar Architecture by David Bainbridge,Ken Haggard Pdf

New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting. Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon examples from their own experiences, as well as those of others, of more than three decades to offer both overarching principles as well as the details and formulas needed to successfully design a more comfortable, healthy, and secure place in which to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable. Even if the power goes off. Passive Solar Architecture also discusses “greener” and more-sustainable building materials and how to use them, and explores the historical roots of green design that have made possible buildings that produce more energy and other resources than they use.

Author : Daniel A. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691248653

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Modern Architecture and Climate by Daniel A. Barber Pdf

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available—Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings and offers a historical foundation for today’s zero-carbon design.

Author : Baruch Givoni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471284734

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Passive Low Energy Cooling of Buildings by Baruch Givoni Pdf

A practical sourcebook for building designers, providing comprehensive discussion of the impact of basic architectural choices on cooling efficiency, including the layout and orientation of the structure, window size and shading, exterior color, and even the use of plantings around the site. All major varieties of passive cooling systems are presented, with extensive analysis of performance in different types of buildings and in different climates: ventilation; radiant cooling; evaporative cooling; soil cooling; and cooling of outdoor spaces.

Author : Norbert Lechner
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064353868

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Heating, Cooling, Lighting by Norbert Lechner Pdf

Using a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach, presents detailed information based on concepts, rules, guidelines, intuition, and experience for architects in the areas of heating, cooling, and lighting at the schematic design stage. The data explored supports a three-tiered approach--load avoidance, using natural energy sources, and mechanical equipment. Among the topics covered are shading, thermal envelope, passive heating and cooling, electric lighting, and HVAC. Case studies illustrate how certain buildings use techniques at all three tiers for heating, cooling, and lighting. An appendix lists some of the more appropriate computer programs available to the architect for analysis at the schematic design stage.

Author : D. Asimakopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134254897

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Passive Cooling of Buildings by D. Asimakopoulos Pdf

Energy use in buildings in the EU represents about 40% of the total annual energy consumption. With greater awareness of the need to reduce energy consumption comes a growth of interest in passive cooling, particularly as an alternative to air-conditioning. This book describes the fundamentals of passive cooling together with the principles and formulae necessary for its successful implementation. The material is comprised largely of information and results compiled under the SAVE European Research Programme.

Author : C. Alan Short
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317658696

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The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture by C. Alan Short Pdf

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.

Author : Mat Santamouris
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849773966

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Advances in Passive Cooling by Mat Santamouris Pdf

Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such devices has become a significant cause for concern. Passive cooling is increasingly being thought of as the best alternative to air conditioning.This book offers the latest knowledge and techniques on passive cooling, enabling building professionals to understand the state of the art and employ relevant new strategies. With separate chapters on comfort, urban microclimate, solar control, ventilation, ground cooling and evaporative and radiative cooling, this authoritative text will also be invaluable for architects, engineers and students working on building physics and low-energy design.Advances in Passive Cooling is part of the BEST series, edited by Mat Santamouris. The aim of the series is to present the most current, high quality theoretical and application oriented material in the field of solar energy and energy efficient buildings. Leading international experts cover the strategies and technologies that form the basis of high-performance, sustainable buildings, crucial to enhancing our built and urban environment.

Author : Negin Imani,Brenda Vale
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Phillip Jones
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785008993

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Thermal Design of Buildings by Phillip Jones Pdf

The way we heat, cool and ventilate our buildings is central to many of today's concerns, including providing comfortable, healthy and productive environments, using energy and materials efficiently, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As we drive towards a zero-carbon society, design solutions that combine architecture, engineering and the needs of the individual are increasingly being sought. Thermal Design of Buildings aims to provide an understanding from which such solutions can be developed, placing technological developments within the context of a wider world view of the built environment and energy systems, and an historical perspective of how buildings have responded to climate and sustainable development.

Author : Vinod Gupta
Publisher : Innovative Informations
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981-06-01
Category : Air conditioning
ISBN : 0910661006

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Natural Cooling of Buildings by Vinod Gupta Pdf

Author : Carla Balocco,Giuseppe Grazzini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 1608761290

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Cool Power by Carla Balocco,Giuseppe Grazzini Pdf

Natural ventilation in buildings, generally belongings to bio climatic design, can provide a comfortable indoor climate and major possibilities for energy saving and reducing energy consumption due to mechanical ventilation and air conditioning systems. Natural ventilation is the most efficient passive cooling systems, which was also used in traditional, historic architecture to improve thermal efficiency and indoor building comfort. Many historic buildings in Italy were split between summer and winter apartments. the summer apartment was located on the ground floor and frescoed. Its cool indoor climate was due to the presence of surrounding gardens and to the high thermal inertia of the ground and wall. Sometimes these rooms benefited from effective natural air-conditioning systems with air channels, gratings. underground openings and rooms and basins for rain water storage. Some architectural structures inside historical buildings are often interpreted as cooling systems. The problem is the knowledge about the real functioning of these systems during the past and at the present.

Author : Giacomo Chiesa,Maria Kolokotroni,Per Heiselberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030723859

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Innovations in Ventilative Cooling by Giacomo Chiesa,Maria Kolokotroni,Per Heiselberg Pdf

This book includes the most recent outcomes from research and professional practice in the ventilative cooling field, gathered by the selected panel of authors. It provides essential contents to face and reduce the rise of space cooling and ventilation energy uses in buildings by alternative ventilation and cooling solutions. The book is organised into three parts which include a detailed description of ventilative cooling boundaries and implications (working principles, KPIs, standards, comfort models, control techniques) and of principal techniques (night ventilation, controlled natural ventilation, hybrid solutions, PCM and mass activation, evaporative cooling, earth-to-air heat exchangers) along with an updated analysis of the background to the topic. Furthermore, the last part of the book defines a unique practical and theoretical framework to include ventilative cooling solutions in different building typologies along with their principal implications.

Author : Francis Allard,Cristian Ghiaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136560637

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Natural Ventilation in the Urban Environment by Francis Allard,Cristian Ghiaus Pdf

Throughout the world, there is an increasing interest in ecological design of buildings, and natural ventilation has proved to be the most efficient low-energy cooling technique. Its practical application, however, is hindered by the lack of information on the complex relationship between the building and its urban environment. In this book, a team of experts provide first-hand information and tools on the efficient use of natural ventilation in urban buildings. Key design principles are explained, enabling readers to decide on the best solution for natural ventilation of buildings, taking into account climate and urban context.In the initial sketches, architects need answers to open problems such as 'what kind of solution to adopt' and 'how to modify existing strategies to exploit the potential of the site'. This book formalizes the multi-criteria analysis of candidate solutions based on quantitative and qualitative estimation of the driving forces (wind and buoyancy), as well as of the barriers induced by the urban environment (wind speed reduction, noise and pollution) and gives a methodology for optimal design of openings. The book is accompanied by downloadable resources, containing software for assessing the potential of a given site, estimating wind speed and dimensioning the openings for natural ventilation. The methodologies and tools are tested, self-contained and user friendly.About the editorsThe editors, Cristian Ghiaus and Francis Allard, are affiliated with the University of La Rochelle, France. The authors and reviewers combine expertise from universities, research institutions and industry in Belgium, France, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland.

Author : Y. Chartier,C. L Pessoa-Silva
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241547857

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Natural Ventilation for Infection Control in Health-care Settings by Y. Chartier,C. L Pessoa-Silva Pdf

This guideline defines ventilation and then natural ventilation. It explores the design requirements for natural ventilation in the context of infection control, describing the basic principles of design, construction, operation and maintenance for an effective natural ventilation system to control infection in health-care settings.