Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes

Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice
Herausgeber: Trubiano, Franca

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features: * architectural innovations in building skin technologies which make lighter more transparent buildings high performing; * energy-free architectural design principles and advances in building-integrated photovoltaics; * essential engineering principles, controls and approaches to simulation for achieving net zero; * the advantages of integrated design in residential construction and the challenges and opportunities it engenders; * detailed case studies of innovative homes which have incorporated low-energy design solutions, new materials, alternative building assemblies, digital fabrication, integrated engineering systems and operational controls.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 188mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9780415615280
• ISBN-10: 0415615283
• Artikelnr.: 31794149

Autorenporträt

Franca Trubiano is a Registered Architect (O.A.Q., Int. Assoc. AIA) and Assistant Professor at Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania where she received her doctoral degree and conducts research in construction technology, emerging materials, tectonic theory, integrated design and architectural ecologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Household Power: How Much is Enough? Part 1: Building
Envelopes, New Materials and Architectural Design 1.1. Energy Free'
Architectural Design - The Case of PassivHaus and Double Skin Facades 1.2.
Translucent Building Skins - Advancing the Technology of Light Transmission
1.3. Responsive Building Envelopes: Characteristics and Evolving Paradigms
1.4. Nano-Materials + Bio Insulators + Phase Change Materials Part 2:
Renewable Energies, Building Systems and Simulations 2.1. The Design
Integration of Renewable Energies 2.2. Systems Integrated Photovoltaics,
SIPV 2.3. Building Systems, Controls and Automation 2.4. Building
Performance and Computational Simulation Part 3: Integrated Practice and
Residential Construction 3.1. Integrated Project Delivery - Contracting for
High Performance 3.2. Energy and the Integrative Design Process, Defining
the Team of Experts 3.3. The Construction of Low Energy Prefabricated
Housing in Denmark 3.4. From Modeling to Making, Parametric Design and
Digital Fabrication Part 4: High Performance Homes: Case Studies 4.1.
LumenHaus and the Eclipsis Sun Control System 4.2. Project Icarus:
Optimizing Light and Energy in the Design of a Translucent Roof 4.3. North
House: Climate Responsive Envelope and Control System 4.4. Modular
Building; Three Scales/Three Strategies