Vidar Lerum, Lerum Vidar High Performance Building English · Hardback

How Great Buildings Work looks at contemporary architecture to demonstrate the art and craft of designing high performance, energy-efficient buildings. Taking a hands-on view of sustainability, designers learn the analytical approach to investigating how buildings work by looking at 10 examples of great architecture.

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"High-Performance Building, by Vidar Lerum, eschews larger philosophical issues in favor of establshing step-by-step directions for analyzing the performance of existing buildings. Lerum considers performance as "annual specific energy use" situating that as a base from which architectural form emerges to serve a sustainable end. He then explains his process-including reviewing design documents, talking to the architect and owner, and modeling the building in energy software-for gauging the performance of an existing bulding, presumably because you, too, would want to analyze an existing buidling." ( Architectural Record , November 2009)

Product details

• Authors: Vidar Lerum, Lerum Vidar
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 17.08.2007
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
• EAN: 9780471775355
• ISBN: 978-0-471-77535-5
• Pages: 304
• Subjects: Bauentwurf, Baukonstruktion