Environmental Diversity in Architecture

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-31478-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each chapter demonstrates how an understanding of a particular context or environmental characteristic in dynamic terms informs design. The book is an antidote to the misconceptions of 'optimum' environmental performance or fixed criteria, instead embracing the richness of environmental variety.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steane, Mary Ann

Steemers, Koen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction 1. Environmental Diversity in Architecture Part 2 Framework 2. Social, Architectural and Environmental Convergence 3. The Ambiguity of Intentions 4. Human Nature 5. Designing Diverse Lifetimes for Evolving Buildings Part 3: Urban 6. Urban Diversity 7. Outdoor Comfort 8. Intermediate Environments 9. The Reverential Acoustic Part 4: Interior 10. Environmental Diversity and Natural Lighting Strategies 11. Daylight Perception 12. Exploring Thermal Comfort and Spatial Diversity Part 5: Design 13. Experiencing Climate: Architecture and Environmental Diversity

Über Autor(innen)

Koen Steemers is a director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies and a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He specialises in aspects of environmental design in architecture, has practices as an architect in the UK and Germany, and is a Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Limited. His recent publications include Energy and Environment in Architecture (2000), and Architecture City Environment (2000), The Selective Environment (2002), Daylight Design of Buildings (2002).

Mary Ann Steane is a lecturer in the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. She lectures on environmental issues and is also a course director of the MPhil in Environmental Design. In the studio courses she delivers the acknowledgement and integration of environmental design issues is always given particular emphasis. Her research marries technical analysis with a more historical perspective. The current focus of her research is on natural lighting strategies, and seeks to enable more precise communication about light quality, and thus to develop a more nuanced appraisal of natural lighting strategies in their broader topographic, climatic and programmatic context.