THE RECOVERY OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE Air, Control and Climate

• Main Author: Short, C. Alan 1955- (Charles Alan) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon, Oxford New York, NY Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2017
• Series: BRI book series (Routledge building research and information)
• Subjects: Natural ventilation; Buildings > Environmental engineering
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 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