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Architecture and climate --- Architecture --- History --- Environmental aspects --- architecture [discipline] --- climate --- preservation [function] --- Great Britain --- Architecture and climate - Great Britain - History --- Architecture - Environmental aspects - Great Britain - History

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The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable buildings today requires a new approach. This timely-book is the first in a trilogy from leaders in the field which will provide just that. It explains, in a clear arid comprehensible manner, how we stay comfortable by using our bodies, minds, buildingsand their systems to adapt to indoor and outdoor conditions, which change with the weather and theclimate. The book is in two sections. The first introduces the principles on which the theory of adaptivethermal comfort is based. The second explains how to use field studies to measure thermal comfort inpractice and to analyse the data gathered. Architects have gradually passed responsibility for building performance to service engineers who are largely trained to see comfort as the 'product', designed using simplistic comfort models. The result has contributed to a shift to buildings that use ever more energy. A growing international consensus now calls for low-energy buildings. This means designers must first produce robust, passive structures that provide occupants with many opportunities to make changes to suit their environmental needs. Ventilation using free, natural energy should be preferred and mechanical conditioning only used when the climate demands it. This book outlines the theory of adaptive thermal comfort that is essential to understand and inform such building designs. This book should be required reading for all students, teachers and practitioners of architecture, building engineering and management-for all who have a role in producing, and occupying, twenty-first-century adaptive, low-carbon, comfortable buildings.

Buildings --- Architecture --- Architecture and climate. --- Environmental engineering. --- Thermal properties. --- Human factors. --- Heating, climatisation, ventilation and air conditioning --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- comfort [sensation] --- environmental engineering --- architecture [discipline] --- HVAC

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Architectuur als klimaatmachine biedt theorie en praktijktoepassingen van passieve en actieve systemen die het comfort in gebouwen, met name in woningbouw, kunnen verhogen. Dit boek gaat in op zowel stedenbouwkundige, architectonische als bouwkundige aspecten. De auteurs lichten vuistregels en achterliggende theorieën toe en bieden handvatten voor gebruik in het ontwerp. Ze brengen met dit boek de ontwerpconsequenties in beeld in ontwerpstudies en voorbeeldprojecten met een onderscheid tussen passieve en actieve klimaatbeheersing.

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