Microclimatic Landscape Design: Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

ISBN-10: 0471056677
ISBN-13: 9780471056676
Category: Architecture / General
Pages: 193
Language: English
Published: 1995-08-30
Publisher: Wiley
Authors: Robert D. Brown, Terry J. Gillespie

Description

Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Microclimatic Landscape Design shows designers how to work withnature to create climatically pleasant spaces for human activities.With remarkable clarity, it covers both the scientific backgroundand the design techniques needed for shaping spaces that increasecomfort and reduce energy consumption. This comprehensive,environmentally-sensitive guide:

Presents the basic principles of microclimatology and explainshow objects in the landscape affect climate to createmicroclimates
Describes methods for modifying the key variables in amicroclimate, including radiation, wind, temperature, humidity, andprecipitation
Shows how to create successful, comfortable spaces under a widevariety of climatic conditions
Explains energy budgets and the effects of landscape on energyuse in buildings
Includes useful formulas for determining human thermal comfort,estimating solar radiation absorbed by a person, and estimatingwind in a given landscape

For landscape architects, architects, contractors, and planners,Microclimatic Landscape Design is a concise, practical, andindispensable guide to improving the comfort of outdoor spaces andreducing the heating or cooling loads on buildings.

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