Heating or Cooling Your Building Naturally: Solar Architectural Solutions |  | Author: Virginia B. Macdonald Publisher: Virginia B. Macdonald Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover Pages: 131 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2 Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0977456102 EAN: 9780977456109 ASIN: 0977456102
Publication Date: February 1, 2006 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description Architect Virginia Macdonald, FAIA, has written Heating or Cooling Your Building Naturally, Solar Architectural Solutions, to serve as her legacy and ode to the principles of working with nature to design comfortable buildings. Through an initial explanation of her principles and ten case studies, the author relates how vertical ventilation and controlled daylighting--to the exclusion of air-conditioning and daytime electric lighting--can be applied. The author explains in simple language, with photos and diagrams, how to use the sun to cool or warm a building as needed, while at the same time reducing mildew, dust, and many pathogens. The premise is simple and has been used throughout the ages in all cultures and climates: hot air rises. That’s the starting point for all the ideas and designs contained in this book, taking advantage of the natural vertical flow of air to regulate the temperature of enclosed spaces. Likewise, the documented health benefits of controlled daylighting are well-known, and the projects here described make ample use of skylights (with spectrally-selective glazing) in addition to windows, so that electric lighting is seldom needed during the day. For first-time builders, this book will increase awareness and assist in forming the right questions to their architects. For architects and engineers, it will provoke much-needed discussion, and hopefully result in more environmentally responsive solutions. For the general reader, it will provide relief from books that only focus on how a building looks, not how it responds to the environment. This book is not about monumental architecture, but instead pertains to the multitude of smaller buildings which make up our built environment. These are the homes we live in, the schools for our children, doctors’ offices--the buildings where we spend our lives and that, in turn, affect our climate and the very air we breathe.
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