What is the best way to consider energy in buildings? For over a century, the building industry has largely focused on ideas of insulation and isolation for its energetic practices. A growing movement of designers claim that other concepts and practices are required for the non-isolated energy systems of architecture. This book describes the history, theory and facts of the mainstream isolation technologies and the emerging alternative design approaches. It is a book on the scientific, material, and design history of building isolation; but more importantly, it is a book on isolated and non-isolated perspectives on energy in architecture. Written by a registered practicing architect with detailed technical knowledge, who is at the same time a researcher and experienced teacher, the aim is to understand the different scientific, architectural and cultural approaches to energy and to promote a non-isolated perspective: a thermodynamically accurate, ecologically powerful, culturally relevant, and architecturally ambitious perspective on energy in architecture.
- ISBN10 3038213217
- ISBN13 9783038213215
- Publish Date 20 August 2014 (first published 15 August 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country AT
- Publisher Birkhauser
- Imprint Ambra Verlag MMag. Franz Schaffer
- Format eBook
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL https://degruyter.com/isbn/9783038213215