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Filling a gap in existing literature on sustainable design, this new guide introduces and illustrates sustainable design principles through detailed case studies of sustainable buildings in Europe, North America and Australia. The guide will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the design issues involved in delivering sustainable buildings, and giving detailed description of the process of integrating principles into practice. One hundred buildings, ranging from small dwellings to large commercial buildings, and drawn from a range of countries, demonstrate best current practice. The sections of the book are divided into design issues relating to sustainable development, including site and ecology, community and culture, health, materials, energy, and water. With over 400 illustrations, this highly visual guide will be an invaluable reference to all those concerned with architecture and sustainability issues.

Sustainable architecture. --- Architecture durable --- 504 --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Architecture --- Sustainable design --- Duurzame architectuur --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Duurzaamheid --- Duurzaam bouwen --- Ecologisch bouwen --- Ecologie --- Sustainable architecture --- Architecture écologique --- Matériau --- Eau --- Santé --- Energie --- Amérique du Nord --- Europe --- Australie --- 574 --- 69 --- 699 --- 699.86 --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Bouwtechniek --- Bouwfysica --- Klimaatontwerp

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As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or ecologically responsible, buildings, and being able to assemble the social resources to do so, requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the optimal pathways to greener buildings design and great diversity in practices of sustainable architecture. This volume brings together leading researchers from across the European Union and North America both to illustrate the diversity of practice and to provide a critical commentary on this key debate. The reader is provided with an introduction to competing perspectives on the sustainable architecture debate, international exemplars of differing practice and an overview of new theoretical and methodological resources for understanding and meeting the conceptual, social and technical challenges of sustainable architecture.

Sustainable architecture. --- Architecture --- Sustainable architecture --- Architecture durable --- Environmental aspects. --- Aspect de l'environnement --- 504 --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design --- Duurzaam bouwen --- Duurzame architectuur --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Ecologie --- Ecologisch bouwen --- Design and construction --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Environmental aspects --- 72.01 --- 711.4 --- Europa --- Noord-Amerika --- 574 --- 699.86 --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Klimaatontwerp --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architecture, Primitive

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While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed.The premise of the book 'Ecological Urbanism' is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. “Ecological Urbanism” approaches the city without any one set of instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary approach. Design provides the synthetic key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment.The book 'Ecological Urbanism' brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.With contributions by Homi Bhabha, Stefano Boeri, Chuck Hoberman, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Bruno Latour, Nina-Marie Lister, Mohsen Mostafavi, Matthias Schuler, Sissel Tolaas, Charles Waldheim, among others.

Environmental planning --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Population urbaine --- Urban population --- 72:574(035) --- Duurzame stedenbouw --- Ecologie ; stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad --- Architectuur en ecologie ; handboeken --- Dégradation --- 711.4(C) --- Ecologische stedenbouw --- 711.4 --- 911.375 --- 504.54 --- 504 --- Urbanisatie (stedelijke omgeving, verstedelijking) --- 504.54 Landscape. Landscape ecology --- Landscape. Landscape ecology --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Urban settlements (their study and geography). Towns. Cities --- Ecologie --- Duurzaamheid --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Urbanisme durable --- Ecologie appliquée --- Urbanization --- Environmental aspects. --- ecology --- urbanism --- urban planning --- urban development --- Urban environment --- amenity planting --- world --- Sustainable urban development --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning. --- Environmental degradation. --- Sustainable development. --- Ecologie urbaine --- Urbanisme --- Environnement --- Développement durable --- 712 --- 574 --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Landschapsarchitectuur --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid

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The emergent understanding of the building and the city as ecological systems immediately raises the question of their interaction. In which ways does a "green building" contribute to the ecology of its surroundings? And how can ecologically designed urban districts, with their green and blue networks, link up with the elements and technologies of building design? These are questions of concept, of planning, of design and not least of experience. All these dimensions of "green building" are investigated in this book with substantial essays and benchmark case studies, in a collaboration of a research team with internationally renowned architects, urbanists and landscape designers - in an effort to understand and evaluate some of the most recent and innovative Dense+Green Cities in Asia, the Americas and Europe."

712.02 --- 71:574 --- Verticale tuinen --- Openbaar groen; stedelijke groene ruimten --- Gevelconstructies ; buitenmuren ; met planten --- Landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur ; aanleggen van parken, tuinen --- Stedenbouw en ecologie --- Groenvoorzieningen ; steden --- Duurzaam bouwen --- Architectuur --- 504 --- 72.037 --- Duurzame stedenbouw --- Milieu --- Ecologie --- Duurzaamheid --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Eenentwintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 21ste eeuw (architectuur) --- 711.64 --- 574 --- 711.4 --- Densiteit --- Verdichting --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- population density --- urban development --- human ecology --- sustainable architecture --- Social geography --- Sustainable architecture --- Sustainable buildings --- Urban density --- City Planning --- Densité urbaine --- Planification urbaine --- Urbanisme durable --- Construction écologique --- Architecture écologique --- Densification --- Design and construction --- Environmental aspects --- Sustainable buildings - Design and construction --- Architecture - Environmental aspects --- Architecture durable --- Constructions durables --- Conception et construction --- Aspect de l'environnement

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An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.This book has been written to assist with clarifying target criteria and expanding horizons when it comes to ecological buildings. It is meant as a handbook and source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators, to provide them with pertinent information about their design, construction and operation: how to do this in the most energy-efficient and economical manner? Also, there is feedback and documentation about prominent buildings like the Hamburg Dockland or the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. They provide excellent architectural examples for detailed construction and design solutions. Further, there are insightful interviews with architects and clients about many important buildings, which help turn this book into an integrated source of reference for sustainable architecture.- A Guideline for Planning, Construction and Operation of sustainable Buildings- A source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators- Innovative architectural examples with sustainable concepts and design

Engineering. --- Civil Engineering. --- Architecture, general. --- Energy Economics. --- Environment, general. --- Energy Technology. --- Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings). --- Architecture. --- Civil engineering. --- Electric engineering. --- Engineering economy. --- Environmental sciences. --- Ingénierie --- Architecture --- Génie civil --- Décision économique, prise de --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Sustainable architecture. --- Architecture and energy conservation --- Buildings --- -72.039 --- 69.504 --- 620.9 --- 697.11 --- 699.86 --- 504 --- 69 --- 69.03 --- Drees & Sommer --- D&S Advanced Building Technologies --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Energy conservation and architecture --- Energy efficient buildings --- Energy conservation --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- Economics of energy in general --- General principles. Properties of buildings from heating point of view (measurements, results). Temperature levels. Fuel consumption --- Thermal insulation of buildings. Cold-resistant and heat-resistant construction. Expansion joints --- Duurzaam bouwen --- Duurzame architectuur --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Ecologie --- Ecologisch bouwen --- Bouwtechniek --- Bouwwezen --- Energie-efficiënte architectuur --- Klimaatbeheersing --- 699.86 Thermal insulation of buildings. Cold-resistant and heat-resistant construction. Expansion joints --- 697.11 General principles. Properties of buildings from heating point of view (measurements, results). Temperature levels. Fuel consumption --- 620.9 Economics of energy in general --- 69.504 Building and the environment. Sustainable building --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Sustainable architecture --- Sustainable buildings --- 72.039 --- Ecologically sustainable buildings --- Environmentally sustainable buildings --- Green buildings (Green technology) --- Sustainable development --- Design and construction --- 574 --- 699 --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Bouwfysica --- Zero energy buildings