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Author Hausladen, Gerhard

Title Building to Suit the Climate : a Handbook
Published Basel : De Gruyter, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (175 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Climate -- Cool -- Temperate -- Subtropics -- Tropics -- Deserts -- Economics -- Glossary -- Appendix
Summary In future, buildings that make sense from a bioclimatic perspective will not be the exception; planners will simply be expected to design them. With its wealth of facts, this book serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the planner from the basic evaluation stage through conception and implementation planning all the way to building operation. The building-related characteristics of the various climatic zones form the basis for the made-to-measure development of integrated building solutions. Well-conceived graphics illustrate p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-170) and index
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Subject Architecture and climate -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Buildings -- Energy conservation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Sustainable architecture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
HOUSE & HOME -- Do-It-Yourself -- Plumbing.
Architecture and climate
Buildings -- Energy conservation
Sustainable architecture
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Liedl, Petra
De Saldanha, Michael
ISBN 9783034608787
3034608780