Showing posts with label Sustainable Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sustainable Design. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art


Places of the Soul:
 Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
309 pages | 2003 | PDF | 23,4 mb

This new edition of the seminal text reminds us that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy efficient building. Sustainable buildings must provide for the 'soul'. For Christopher Day architecture is not just about a building's appearance, but how the building is experienced. 

'Places of the Soul' presents buildings as environment, intrinsic to their surroundings, and offers design principles that will open the eyes of the architecture student and professional alike, presenting ideas quite different to the orthodoxy of modern architectural education.


Sunday, March 25, 2018

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Friday, March 16, 2018

Sustianable Building Design Book


Sustianable Building Design Book
The 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference in Tokyo, Student Session
23-29 September 2005, Tokyo, Japan

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Strategies for Sustainable Architecture


Strategies for Sustainable Architecture

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Saturday, March 10, 2018

Sustainable Infrastructure


Sustainable Infrastructure
The Guide to Green Engineering and Design
384 pages | PDF | 15 MB

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Friday, April 15, 2016

Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories


Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories : 
Planning, Design, and Operation 
by KlingStubbins
English | 2010 | 352 pages | PDF | 35,5 MB


Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics: Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture


Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics: 
Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture
 Norbert M. Lechner,
English | 2012 | 304 pages | PDF | 109 MB 


Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building


Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building 
by Marian Keeler and Bill Burke
English | 2009 | 360 pages | PDF | 43 MB


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Green Building with Concrete : Sustainable Design and Construction


Green Building with Concrete : Sustainable Design and Construction
Gajanan M. Sabnis, 
2012 |  | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB

With superior fire resistance, strength, and a long service life, concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. A sustainable material, concrete is also easily and affordably reused and rehabilitated. The first book to provide an overview of sustainability and concrete, Green Building with Concrete: Sustainable Design and Construction surveys the material’s history in the green building movement and presents state-of-the-art methodologies and best practices. 

From the manufacturing of cement to the rehabilitation of concrete, this comprehensive book explains how concrete can be used for sustainable design and construction. It offers insight into new technological and social developments guiding the introduction of green buildings and examines the attributes that concrete has to offer the green building movement. The text also highlights research on economic analysis—particularly life cycle costing—to provide a full picture of the economic benefits of concrete. Expert contributors from around the world offer diverse viewpoints on global sustainability.

Topics covered include:

  • Principles of sustainable design
  • Benefits of concrete’s thermal mass
  • Mitigation of urban heat island effects
  • Surface runoff and the application of pervious concrete for sidewalks and parking areas
  • Reduction of construction waste
  • Leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) standards

Emphasizing environmental impact and occupational and consumer health and safety, this book explains how to make the most of concrete in sustainable design. Written for university and concrete industry continuing education courses, it also serves as a reference for building owners and industry professionals who recognize the value of green building.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design, 2nd Edition



"Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design, 2nd Edition"
Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell, 
2010-09-08 | 408 pages | EPUB | 8,4 MB

Public Places Urban Spaces 2e is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2500 postgraduate students on Urban Design courses in the UK, and 1500 students on undergraduate courses in the same subject.

The second edition of this tried and trusted textbook has been updated with relevant case studies to show students how principles have been put into practice. The book is now in full colour and a larger format, so students and lecturers get a much stronger visual package and easy to use layout, enabling them to more easily practically apply principles of urban design to their projects.

Sustainability is the driving factor in urban regeneration and new urban development, and the new edition is focused on best sustainable design and practice. Public Places Urban Spaces is a must-have purchase for those on urban design courses and for professionals who want to update and refresh their knowledge.

. Tried and tested textbook in urban design, giving a comprehensive introduction to the principles and theory of urban design
. New and key focus on trends in sustainable design
. Now full colour to better visually demonstrate to students the application of design principles


Thursday, January 31, 2013

House Rating Schemes : From Energy to Comfort Base


"House Rating Schemes : From Energy to Comfort Base"
Maria Kordjamshidi,
Springer | 2010 | 300 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes. The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.
 

 

Thursday, December 6, 2012

GreenSource Magazine November/December 2012



GreenSource Magazine November/December 2012
English | 126 Pages | PDF | 67MB


GreenSource Magazine - 09 & 10 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 09 & 10 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 07 & 08 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 07 & 08 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 05 & 06 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 05 & 06 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 03 & 04 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 03 & 04 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 01 & 02 / 2012


GreenSource Magazine - 01 & 02 / 2012


Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning



Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
Daniel E. Williams, David W. Orr, Donald Watson,
Wiley | 2007 | 304 pages | PDF | 19,5 MB