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Sustainable building has commonly been seen as separate from mainstream architecture and has been accorded the status of worthy but dull design. Adopting the term "bioclimatic" in preference to "green" to describe buildings which are inspired by nature and have a clear strategy for minimizing environmental depredation, this book seeks to revise this judgement. Introductory chapters trace the history of bioclimatic design in architecture, exploring the relationship between architecture and the natural environment. An examination of three projects currently under construction points to future directions in bioclimatic architecture. The contemporary projects featured in the main section of the book are diverse - from office buildings which flaunt their measures for energy conservation in the form of external solar shading, wind towers, glazed atria and photovoltaic modules, to a church built from tubes of recycled paper and a museum constructed in timber and inserted in a woodland setting. Architects whose work is featured include Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Edward Cullinan, Foster and Partners, Herzog and Partners, Glenn Murcutt and Arata Isozaki.

General ecology and biosociology --- energie (technologie) --- environments [object groupings] --- Architecture --- hedendaagse architectuur --- milieu --- Architecture et climat --- Constructions solaires --- Aspect environnemental --- Duurzaam bouwen --- Architectuur --- Architecture, Modern --- 72.036 --- 504 --- Architectuur en milieu ; 1980-1997 --- Architectuur ; klimatisch geregelde ; energiebesparing --- Architectuur ; zonne-energie ; zonneboilers --- 72:574 --- Environmental aspects. --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Duurzame architectuur --- Ecologisch bouwen --- Architectuur en ecologie --- History --- Building materials. Building technology --- sustainable architecture --- Structural parts and elements of building --- Environmental aspects --- Modern [style or period] --- architecture [object genre] --- 574 --- 699.86 --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Klimaatontwerp

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on constant tectonic loading are as good as or better Other geophysical measurements may also bere- than time-varying earthquake likelihood models ted to earthquake occurrence, and such relationships determinedfrom the evolving stress ?eld. are examinedin some of the papers herein. ITABA et al. One approach to understanding earthquakes isto compare groundwater and crustal deformation to create synthetic earthquake catalogues using certain seismicity recorded on newly installed stations to test assumptions regarding the physics of the process to previouslyobserved preseismicchanges inShikoku see what features of real catalogues can be explained and theKii Peninsula prior to earthquakes in Tonankai by variations in physical properties. SMITH and and Nankai, Japan. They ?nd strainchanges due to DIETERICH takethis approach and model aftershock slow slip events on the plate boundary, but do not ?nd sequences using 3-D stress heterogeneity in the form signi?cant changes in groundwater at that time. of Coulomb static stress change analysisand rate- We conclude the volume with another comparison state seismicity equations calculatedin regions of of seismicity and GPS. OGATA compares anomalies of geometrically complex faults. Their syntheticmodels seismic activity with transient crustaldeformations match severalfeatures of real catalogues such as preceding the 2005 M 7.0 earthquake west of - earthquakeclustering and Omoridecay,and the kuoka, Japan, concluding that aseismicsliptriggered presence of earthquakes in regions where simpler changes in seismicity rates as well as in GPS record- Coulomb stress modelling predicts ˜ ˜stress shadows'' ings during the ten years leading up to the earthquake.

Geology. Earth sciences --- aardbevingen --- geografie --- geologie --- aarde (astronomie)