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The recovery of natural environments in architecture :

(Number (ISBN

0415824400

(Number (ISBN

113865146X

(Number (ISBN

9780415824408

(Number (ISBN

9781138651463

Erroneous ISBN

9781315765853

Title Proper

The recovery of natural environments in architecture :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

air, comfort and climate /

First Statement of Responsibility

C. Alan Short.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxvi, 377 pages ;

Dimensions

26 cm.

Series Title

BRI book series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and index.

Text of Note

Airs, fears, dangers -- Climate and its annihilation -- Temperate climates -- Urban heat islands -- Theatres -- Hospitals -- Mediterranean climates -- Continental climates -- Existing buildings -- Delivering the 'recovery'.

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Text of Note

The argument for the recovery of natural environments in architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the natural physics of airflow and fluid dynamics to make good, comfortable interior spaces. In exhuming these ideas and reinforcing them with contemporary scientific insight the book proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings. Book jacket.

Buildings-- Environmental engineering.

Natural ventilation.

Buildings-- Environmental engineering.

Natural ventilation.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Short, C. Alan, (Charles Alan),1955-

Date of Transaction

20200822110724.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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