Holistic housing : concepts, design strategies and processes / [authors], Hans Drexler, Sebastian El khouli ; [essays, Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Bob Gysin ; translation from German into English, Laura Bruce, Raymond D. Peat, Elizabeth Schwaiger].

Includes bibliographical references.

Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes; is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life cycle'. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning. 15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building's significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.

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CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 2 POSITIONS -- 2.1 A short history of sustainable architecture -- 2.2 Sustainable design. A statement -- PART 1: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE. BASICS AND STRATEGIES -- 3 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

3.1 Sense and sensibility of sustainable design 3.2 Systemic approach -- 3.3 Sustainable design is contextual design and process orientation -- 3.4 Aspects of sustainable design -- Local versus global -- The temporal dimension of architecture

Identifying the basic parameters (cause and leverage) instead of optimising and minimising the negative effects (end of pipe) Low-tech versus high-tech -- Efficiency, consistency, sufficiency -- Doing the right things and doing things right -- 4 THE BUILDING AND ITS CONTEXT

4.1 Impact: the building's influence on context The global consequences of human building -- The city as a model of the future -- The effect building has on the environment -- Lighting and shadows -- Urban ventilation

Urban building block: the building as added value for the urban environment The water cycle -- 4.2 Building performance: the effects of urban design and the physical -- Site factors and urban structure (macro level) -- Linking the building to the urban structure

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