Better Buildings

Learning from Buildings in Use
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-85946-586-8
Verlag: Riba Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

This book started life as a successor to Sustainable Architecture, published in 2007, which set out to prove that sustainable architecture can indeed both ‘lift the spirit’ as well as save the planet. This fully revised edition seeks to take a step further, exploring how sustainable buildings are occupied and work, and sheds light on the methods used to observe this. Through short essays from thought-leaders and case studies of visually stunning, environmentally ground-breaking projects, Better Buildings provides architects with the inspiration and tools they need to deliver sustainable design.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Partington, Richard

Bradbury, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Essays 1. Building Performance Evaluation? 2. Learning from the Innovate UK Building Performance Evaluation Programme 3. Low energy buildings: Delivering theory in practice 4. Designing low energy buildings 5. Learning through practice 6. Sustainable buildings a design challenge 7. Energy performance Case Studies Introduction to the case studies 1. Woodlands Trust 2. Greenfields Office 3. John Hope Gateway 4. Crawley library 5. St Lukes School 6. Wilkinson School 7. WWF Headquarters 8. One Brighton 9. Derwenthorpe 10.Lancaster co-housing Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Partington is a co-founder and director of Richard Partington Architects. He is a sustainability expert to the Ministerial Advisory Group in Northern Ireland and is a Design Council CAME enabler. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, UCL, and University of Wales, Cardiff.

Simon Bradbury is a lecturer in Sustainable Design at the University of Plymouth. Simon's research focuses on performance in housing and its relationship to socioeconomic constraints, as well as urban systems, sustainable cities and adaptation and mitigation policy.