Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

Introduction

1.01 Human Comfort

1.02 Solar Geometry

1.03 Wind, Air Movement and Ventilation

1.04 Acoustics – Noise, Sound, Music and Architecture – Paul Bavister

1.05 Designing for Different Climatic Zones – John Farrell (xc02)

1.06 The Climatic Envelope

1.07 Thermal Mass

1.08 Thermal Insulation

1.09 Computational Fluid Dynamics

1.10 Psychrometric Chart: Extending the Comfort Envelope – John Farrell (xc02)

2.01 Bio-Polymer: Made of Air – Allison Dring; Daniel Schwaag (Made of Air GmbH)

2.02 Bio-Polymer: Spatium Gelatum – Zbigniew Oksiuta (Rensselaer)

2.03 Cardboard and paper construction – Shigeru Ban (Shigeru Ban Architects)

2.04 Cement Replacement Materials

2.05 Composites: Fibre Reinforced Polymer – John Hutchinson (Ecos McLean)

2.06 Heat-motors: Deployable Shutters – Dr Christopher Leung (UCL)

2.07 Hempcrete: Hempcrete Blocks and ‘Strocks’ – H. G. Matthews Brickworks

2.08 Lime - John Hutchinson (Ecos Maclean)

2.09 Mycelium Biofabrication – Biohm

2.10 Thermobimetal: Bloom – Prof Doris Sung (USC School of Architecture)

3.01 Bamboo Construction – Jan Balbaligo (Carbonmade)

3.02 Earthen Architecture: Drone-sprayed mud – Stéphanie Chaltiel (MuDD Architects)

3.03 Earthen Architecture: Rammed Earth Construction – Rowland Keable (Rammed Earth Consulting)

3.04 Fabric Formwork: Minishell – Dr Dante Bini (Binisystems)

3.05 Pneumatic Structures: Desert Cloud – Graham Stevens

3.06 Steel Monocoque Construction: The Neuron Pod – Will Alsop + AKT II

3.07 Steel Upcycled Shipping Containers: Quik House – Adam Kalkin

3.08 Tensegrity Structures: Tension Pavilion – Geoff Morrow (StructureMode)

3.09 Timber Gridshell Structures: Mannheim – Frei Otto, Carlfried Mutschler and Joachim Langner

3.10 Timber (Cross-laminated): CLT – Waugh Thistleton

4.01 Bio-Remediation: Eco-Machines – Dr John Todd (John Todd Ecological Design)

4.02 Evaporative Cooling: Porous Ceramic – Rosa Schiano-Phan (University of Westminster)

4.03 Heat Pump (Ground Source): Energy Piles® – Skanska

4.04 Heat Pump (Air Source): Bunhill 2 Energy Centre – Ramboll, Cullinan, McGurk Architects, Colloide

4.05 Heliostat: The Sun Mirrors of Rjukan – Martin Anderson and Bosch Rexroth.

4.06 Bio-remediation: Smog Eating Façade – Allison Dring; Daniel Schwaag – Elegant Embellishments

4.07 Passive Solar Heating: Zome House – Steve Baer & Holly Baer – Zomeworks®

4.08 Thermal Storage: Skytherm, Solar Roof Pond technology – Harold Hay

4.09 Thermal Labyrinth: Federation Square – Atelier Ten

4.10 Wind Catcher　(badgir)　– Yazd, Iran

5.01 Amphibious House – Richard Coutts and Robert Barker (BACA)

5.02 Cork House – Matthew Barnett-Howland, Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton

5.03 Dymaxion House – Richard Buckminster Fuller

5.04 Eastgate Centre – Mick Pearce

5.05 Halley VI – Hugh Broughton

5.06 House in a Garden – Gianni Botsford Architects

5.07 ICT Building – Enric Ruiz Geli (Cloud 9)

5.08 Maison Tropicale – Jean and Henri Prouvé

5.09 Mongolian Ger (Yurt) – Urangua Sodnomjamts

5.10 1970s House St Albans – Scott Batty

Biography

Will McLean and Pete Silver teach at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster and are the co-authors of Fabrication (2006), Introduction to Architectural Technology (2013), Structural Engineering for Architects (2014) and Air Structures (2015).