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In the 21st century, architects and engineers are being challenged to produce work that is concurrently sustainable and resilient. Buildings need to mitigate their impact on climate change by minimizing their carbon footprint, while also countering the challenging new weather conditions. Globally, s...
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John Wiley & Sons,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Profile ;
number 251 Architectural design, volume 88, number 01 |
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| Summary: |
In the 21st century, architects and engineers are being challenged to produce work that is concurrently sustainable and resilient. Buildings need to mitigate their impact on climate change by minimizing their carbon footprint, while also countering the challenging new weather conditions. Globally, severe storms, extreme droughts and rising sea levels are becoming an increasingly reoccurring feature. To respond, a design process is required that seeks to integrate resiliency by building in the capacity to absorb the impacts of these disruptive events and adapt over time to further changes, while simultaneously being part of the solution to the problem itself. This issue of AD is guest-edited by the interdisciplinary team at Stevens Institute of Technology who developed the winning entry for the 2015 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition, the SU+RE House. While particular focus is paid to this student designed and built prototype home, the publication also provides a broader discussion of the value of design-build as a model for tackling the issue of integrating sustainability and resilience, and what changes are required across education, policy, practice and industry for widespread implementation. |
| Item Description: | "January/February 2018." |
| Carrier Form: | 136 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781119379515 (paperback) : 1119379512 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | NA1 |
| CLC: | TU-023 |
| Call Number: | TU-023/S938 |
| Contents: |
Climate change is the new gravity / Unsustainability and the architecture of efficiency / Resilient design: 'Systems Thinking' as a response to climate change / Global responses to local conditions: sustainability and resilience are nowhere the same / Global warming is real: Superstorm Sandy, Stevens and the SU+RE House / High-performance enclosures: designing for comfort, durability and sustainability / Practical resilience: low-tech plug-and-play innovation in the SU+RE House / SU+RE power: energy independence and the sustainable resilient sun / Modelling to drive design: honing the SU+RE House through performance simulations / Defining environments: understanding architectural performance through modelling, simulation and visualisation / Data building: sensor feedback in sustainable design workflows / Building physics, design, and the collaborative build: sustainability and resilience in architectural education / Climate change and the bottom line: delivering sustainable buildings at market rate / Energy and design criticism: is it time for a new measure of beauty? / The design of public policy: sustainability and resilience at the city scale / Aim high: pressing for a radical and global approach to sustainable design / |