Christopher Day

The Eco-Home Design Guide (eBook, ePUB)

Principles and practice for new-build and retrofit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Designing an eco home is as much about working with your natural surroundings as it is about planning to use the right materials for your building. In this book, Christopher Day draws on his extensive experience to explain the key principles of eco-home design, focussing on natural methods rather than expensive technology. Beautifully illustrated, it highlights how aesthetics, comfort, and economy arise from eco-responsible design: they're not add-ons, nor are ecology and art in conflict. This book will give you essential guidance in working with your surroundings; understanding what you can do yourselves; and ecobuilding without relying on technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857843067
• Artikelnr.: 44018000

Autorenporträt

Christopher Day has been committed to eco-architecture and an ecological lifestyle since the 1970s. He has received four design awards, including a Prince of Wales Award, for his work on eco-houses and Steiner schools. Having studied architecture and sculpture, Christopher pioneered a consensus design method, which has now been used in over 60 projects.

As a designer, consultant, lecturer and teacher, Christopher has worked in 20 different countries from California, USA to New Zealand, managing the construction of 150+ eco-homes across many income-level cultures and climates. Continuing to work despite being disabled for the last fifteen years, Christopher has developed a further specialism in adapting environmentally friendly buildings for disabled residents.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Note on quantities
Brief biography
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
Introduction
Why Issues
Why have an eco-home?
Where Issues
Climate and microclimatic considerations
New-build site choice and planning
Choosing an old building to eco-upgrade
How Issues
Keeping warm: minimising fabric heat loss
Keeping warm: airtightness issues
Keeping warm: heating
Keeping dry
Keeping warm and dry: implications for different types of construction
Keeping old buildings warm, cool and dry
Keeping cool
Keeping healthy: physical aspects
Keeping healthy: spirit and soul
Keeping the home safe
Whole-life access
What issues
Minimising hidden environmental impacts
Generating energy
When and who issues
Sequence of action and by whom?
Eco-building and eco-renovation: learning and doing
Appendices
Index