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Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat cool moderate and mitigate it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects) Ashen Cabin (HANNAH) Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll Cullinan Studio McGurk Architects and Colloide) Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne) Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller) Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce) Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II) Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics bamboo construction biopolymer bioremediation CLT climatic envelope computational fluid dynamics earthen architecture fabric formwork hempcrete insulation mycelium biofabrication paper construction passive solar heating pneumatic structures solar geometry tensegrity structures thermal mass and more. | Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

GBP 35.00
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How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

Studying architecture is hugely exciting and rewarding. It entails developing design skills problem-solving abilities and tapping into creativity as well as acquiring cultural technical and professional knowledge. This book is the go-to guide for students throughout their architectural education. It introduces architecture students to all they need to know to get on an architecture course thrive at school and be prepared for the realities of becoming a practising architect. Split into three main sections – Part I (BA or BSC in Architecture) Part II (Masters or Diploma) and Part III (Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice) – it offers direction on all aspects of an architectural education. These range from initial tutorials the first crit and essay-writing through to the development of final project and thesis work. Covering all bases it is a comprehensive guide for a student’s passage from university preparation through to undergraduate and graduate study and out into the profession. It features RIBA UK architecture schools and those validated overseas as well as a short final chapter on architectural education elsewhere in the world. | How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

GBP 24.00
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