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Author Grant, Elizabeth J

Title Integrating Building Performance with Design : an Architecture Student's Guidebook
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I; 1 Why Do You Need This Book?; 2 What Does Building Performance Mean, and Why Does It Matter?; PART II; 3 How Have Others Done This in Practice?; 4 How Have Others Done This in the Design Studio?; PART III; 5 How Can You Integrate Building Performance With Design in Your Own Work?; 6 What Do Students Need to Know?; Index
Summary "Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process. The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 100 full color images to help you with your work. Topics include site, solar orientation, thermal comfort, building enclosure, daylighting, passive heating and cooling, active heating and cooling, indoor air quality, stormwater, and rainwater harvesting.?"--Provided by publisher
Notes Print version record
Subject Architectural design.
Architecture -- Decision making.
Buildings -- Performance.
ARCHITECTURE -- Interior Design -- General.
Architectural design
Architecture -- Decision making
Buildings -- Performance
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317396086
1317396081