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" The recovery of natural environments in architecture : "
C. Alan Short.
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BL
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877617
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Short, C. Alan, (Charles Alan),1955-
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The recovery of natural environments in architecture : : air, comfort and climate /\ C. Alan Short.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2017.
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BRI book series
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xxvi, 377 pages ;; 26 cm.
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0415824400
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: 113865146X
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: 9780415824408
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: 9781138651463
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9781315765853
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and index.
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| Contents
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Airs, fears, dangers -- Climate and its annihilation -- Temperate climates -- Urban heat islands -- Theatres -- Hospitals -- Mediterranean climates -- Continental climates -- Existing buildings -- Delivering the 'recovery'.
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The argument for the recovery of natural environments in architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located. This book unravels the extremely complex history of understanding and perception of air, bad air, miasmas, airborne pathogens, beneficial thermal conditions, ideal climates and climate determinism. It uncovers inventive and entirely viable attempts to design large buildings, hospitals, theatres and academic buildings through the 19th and early 20th centuries, which use the configuration of the building itself and a shrewd understanding of the natural physics of airflow and fluid dynamics to make good, comfortable interior spaces. In exhuming these ideas and reinforcing them with contemporary scientific insight the book proposes a recovery of the lost art and science of making naturally conditioned buildings. Book jacket.
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Buildings-- Environmental engineering.
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Natural ventilation.
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Buildings-- Environmental engineering.
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Natural ventilation.
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697.9/2
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TH7674.S56 2017
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