
ClimateSkin
Building-skin Concepts that Can Do More with Less Energy
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2008
Book
Hardback
191 pages
978-3-7643-7725-0 (ISBN)
Description
The facade plays a critical role in the conception of energy- and climate-optimized buildings: it is the building's skin and functions as an interface between interior and exterior space. It provides thermal and sound insulation and ventilation, and controls and guides the entrance of daylight into the building. Climate Skin offers concrete planning advice for architects and engineers who wish to exploit not only the architectural potential of facades but also their energy and climate-control possibilities, treating the building envelope as an essential component within a complete climate-control and technology solution. It provides a solid foundation of knowledge that equips the reader to make competent technical and economic evaluations of building envelopes. For everyone concerned with facades, Climate Skin is a comprehensive planning handbook and reference work that covers all of the relevant technical and physical aspects of the design and detailed planning of energy-efficient facades.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
205 s/w Abbildungen, 218 farbige Abbildungen
205 b/w and 218 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 23 cm
Weight
1256 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-7725-0 (9783764377250)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Prof. Gerhard Hausladen is a full professor at the Department of Building Climate Control and Building Automation at the Technische Universität München (Munich Technical University) and the proprietor of a firm specializing in climate and building automation. Michael de Saldanha und Petra Liedl are members of the department. All three also teach at the Zentrum für Umweltbewusstes Bauen (Center for Sustainable Building) in Kassel and the Krems University in Austria.
Author
ISNI: 0000 0001 2127 798X GND: 122610946
ISNI: 0000 0001 1934 4477 GND: 1012121275
Contributions
ISNI: 0000 0000 7844 1982 GND: 123468892
ISNI: 0000 0000 3295 2453 GND: 120564718
ISNI: 0000 0003 9866 7104 GND: 129656909
Content
Foreword Essay Skins Facade functions The facade in winter The facade in summer Ventilation Natural light Facade concepts Facade principles Facade typologies Facade technologies Insulation Glass Translucent insulation material Vacuum insulation panels Latent heat storage - PCM Solar control Light deflection Photovoltaics Facade interactions The facade as an interface Light-facade-room climate-technology Planning rules Appendix Requirements Definitions Material properties Physical concepts and units Boundary conditions for all simulations Bibliography Index Authors Illustration credits