Overview
Architecture - Comfort and Energy addresses the architecture-energy combination and its relationship to human comfort and the environment. This important work examines thermal comfort, low energy architecture dealing with various criteria for comfort in different parts of the world. It also explores how previous generations lived in harsh climates and without abundant sources of energy, yet designed and built appropriate dwellings providing both comfort and harmony with the environment. Architecture - Comfort and Energy makes essential reading for architectural students, building technologists, solar energy scientists (especially solar energy architects), energy experts and urban town planners. Its environmental approach provides a well-rounded perspective on architecture, the environment and the use of appropriate technologies to reduce energy consumption and maximise human comfort.In this book we seek to approach the architecture-energy combination and its relationship to human comfort and the environment .There are chapters on thermal comfort, low energy architecture dealing with various criterion for comfort in different parts of the World.
The book also seeks to understand how previous generations lived in harsh climates and without abundant sources of energy, yet managed to design and build appropriate dwellings providing both comfort and harmony with the environment.
Other chapters deal with the bioclimatic concept in Vernacular Architecture; the major role which climate plays at different locations and how this can dictate the shape and form of the buildings and save energy; the importance of micro-climate and its various elements and usage; ventilation and its importance in buildings and the technology for modern architecture