Sun and architecture. How to find a balance in design between advantages and disadvantages of sun orientation?

Corina Ioana Negrescu

ISBN 10: 3668072566 / ISBN 13: 9783668072565

Editore: GRIN Verlag, Examicus Verlag Okt 2015, 2015

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Neuware -Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 12, , language: English, abstract: Most of the times when Sun and Architecture are placed in the same context, the thing that comes first in people¿s mind is High-Technology and glass skyscrapers. The most need of natural light and energy appeared in the public edifices. By reason of using too much energy for basic needs in a building, architects and engineers found alternative eco-friendly solutions that can be used in both private and public sectors.Over time people realized that those solutions are too expensive to wait years for payback. As a consequence, in some parts of the world people and designers raised the question ¿How to use as much sun as possible without spending money ¿. The answer stood in simplicity and appeared soon after the question: ¿ancient solution applied to a new, modern problem ¿ strategic solar building orientation¿.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 20 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 9783668072565

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Titolo: Sun and architecture. How to find a balance ...

Casa editrice: GRIN Verlag, Examicus Verlag Okt 2015

Data di pubblicazione: 2015

Legatura: Taschenbuch

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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 12, , language: English, abstract: Most of the times when Sun and Architecture are placed in the same context, the thing that comes first in people's mind is High-Technology and glass skyscrapers. The most need of natural light and energy appeared in the public edifices. By reason of using too much energy for basic needs in a building, architects and engineers found alternative eco-friendly solutions that can be used in both private and public sectors. Over time people realized that those solutions are too expensive to wait years for payback. As a consequence, in some parts of the world people and designers raised the question "How to use as much sun as possible without spending money?". The answer stood in simplicity and appeared soon after the question: "ancient solution applied to a new, modern problem - strategic solar building orientation".