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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.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments.
PART 1: METHODS.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Climate Conditions.
Chapter 3. Documents.
Chapter 4. Performance By Design.
Chapter 5. As Built.
Chapter 6. What If?
Chapter 7. Summary of Part One.
PART 2: BULDINGS.
Chapter 8. In Nature.
Chapter 9. Grounded.
Chapter 10. Light Breezes.
Chapter 11. Tall and Clear.
Chapter 12. Italian Light House.
Chapter 13. Green Feds.
Chapter 14. Urban Mesa.
Chapter 15. Summary of Part Two.
References.
Photography and Illustration Credits.
Index.
Commentaire
"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)
