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"By Mark DeKay. Edited Susanne Bennett "This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses... more
""also see www.sunwindlight.net How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this... more
Selfridges Building (Birmingham) is one of the most important contemporary organic architectures in Europe. Built by Future Systems, this building has turned into a shopping temple, a materialization of Barbara Kruger's 'I shop therefore... more
Recently, thermal properties of the landscaped rooftops and walls have attracted the interest of researchers because of the potential to minimize energy consumption in urban areas and to aid summer-time thermal control. For this reason... more
This 1992 paper creates a theoretical framework of analysis for understanding the concerns of ecological designers. Various definitions of ecological design are reviewed to show its basis in natural ecological systems, either as analog or... more