Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies G. Z. Brown This book is for designers who want to consider the form-generating potential of sun, wind, and light in the earliest stages of the design process. It is designed to fit with the rapid, conceptual, exploratory, and synthetic thinking that characterizes the beginning of the design process. The book stresses the energy implications of using sun, wind, and light. However, it is organized by the architectural elements designers manipulate--streets, open spaces ...
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Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies G. Z. Brown This book is for designers who want to consider the form-generating potential of sun, wind, and light in the earliest stages of the design process. It is designed to fit with the rapid, conceptual, exploratory, and synthetic thinking that characterizes the beginning of the design process. The book stresses the energy implications of using sun, wind, and light. However, it is organized by the architectural elements designers manipulate--streets, open spaces and buildings, rooms and courtyards, and walls, roofs, floors, and windows. These elements are discussed in terms of their organization--layered, elongated, dispersed, compact, and zoned--and their attributes--shape, orientation, enclosure, edge, and size. In addition, the contents are matched to the scale that is being considered--building groups, individual buildings, and building parts. Sun, Wind, and Light is divided into three parts: The Design Strategies section is intended to help the designer formulate the basic concept for a project. This section uses a one- or two-page format that contains a simple memorable statement of the strategy, a clear, concise explanation of the strategy, several provocative historical and contemporary architectural illustrations of the potential impact of the strategy on a building's form and organization, and a rule of thumb that allows the designer to size elements instantly, without calculation. This format makes the strategies stimulating, fast to use, and easy to integrate with other design concerns. The Analysis Techniques section helps the designer define the context of the problem by understanding the sun, wind, and light resources of a particular site and climate, and how those resources can be used in a particular building to reduce the energy used for heating, cooling, and lighting. The third section, Strategies For Supplementing Passive Systems, addresses the ways design strategies can be supplemented with conventional heating, cooling, and lighting systems. The book is extensively referenced so that more detailed information can be located easily. It contains a glossary of energy-related terms so that it can be used effectively by those who are not energy experts. For easy retrieval of information, the book is indexed by subject, building, and architect, and by charts, graphs, and tables.
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Good. Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Scuffing and smudging across covers and spine strip. Light curling to rear cover. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good. 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Wiley, New York, NY 2000. 400 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy! Light general wear. Size: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9. Nautical: Building Buying Maintenance Nautical: History 6049L.
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Like New. Size: 8x6x1; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Good. Wraps are firm, text block sturdy, without highlights/underlining or markings. Some rubbing/curling to wraps. Very clean, very nice example with two small smudges to lower text block edge. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
