Sustainable Design Basics

Book Description

An accessible, climate-diverse guide that transforms readers from sustainable design novices to whole-solution problem solvers.

Sustainable Design Basics is a student-friendly introduction to a holistic and integral view of sustainable design. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook presents basic technical information, sustainability strategies, and a practical, step-by-step approach for sustainable building projects. Clear and relatable chapters illustrate how to identify the factors that reduce energy use, solve specific sustainable design problems, develop holistic design solutions, and address the social and cultural aspects of sustainable design. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, the text’s easy-to-follow methodology leads readers through the fundamental sustainable design principles for the built environment.

Sustainably-constructed and maintained buildings protect the health and improve the productivity of their occupants, as well as help to restore the global ecosystem. The authors, leading practitioners and educators in sustainable design, have created a resource that provides a solid introduction to broad level sustainability thinking that students can take forward into their professional practice. Topics include space planning for sustainable design, integrative and collaborative design, standards and rating systems, real-world strategies to conserve energy and resources through leveraging renewable natural resources and innovative construction techniques and their impact on our environment.

Usable and useful both in and beyond the classroom, this book:

• Covers building location strategies, building envelopes and structures, integration of passive and active systems, green materials, and project presentation
• Examines cultural factors, social equity, ecological systems, and aesthetics
• Provides diverse student exercises that vary by climate, geography, setting, perspective, and typology
• Features a companion website containing videos for each sustainable strategy, matrices, templates, Sketch-Up and AutoCAD files, PowerPoint slides, and extensive instructor resources

Sustainable Design Basics is an important resource aimed at undergraduate architecture and interior design students, or first-year graduate students, as well as design professionals wishing to integrate sustainable design knowledge and techniques into their practice.

中文：

书名：可持续设计基础

一个可访问的，气候多样化的指南，将读者从可持续设计新手转变为整体解决问题的解决者。

可持续设计基础这是对学生友好的介绍，介绍了可持续设计的整体和整体观点。在全面的范围内，这本教科书提供了基本的技术信息，可持续发展战略，以及可持续建筑项目的实践，一步一步的方法。清晰和相关的章节说明了如何确定减少能源消耗的因素，解决具体的可持续设计问题，开发整体设计解决方案，以及解决可持续设计的社会和文化方面。不需要该主题的先验知识，文本的易于遵循的方法引导读者通过基本的可持续设计原则的建成环境。

可持续建造和维护的建筑物保护其居住者的健康和提高生产力，并有助于恢复全球生态系统。作者是可持续设计的主要实践者和教育家，他们创造了一个资源，提供了广泛层面的可持续思维的坚实介绍，学生可以将其带入他们的专业实践中。主题包括可持续设计的空间规划、综合和协作设计、标准和评级系统、通过利用可再生自然资源和创新建筑技术来节约能源和资源的现实世界战略及其对我们环境的影响。

这本书在课堂内外都是有用的和有用的：

• 涵盖建筑选址策略、建筑围护结构、被动和主动系统的集成、绿色材料和项目演示
• 考察文化因素、社会公平、生态系统和美学
• 提供多样化的学生练习，根据气候、地理、环境、视角和类型的不同而有所不同
• 有一个配套的网站，其中包含每个可持续发展战略的视频、矩阵、模板、素描和AutoCAD文件、PowerPoint幻灯片以及大量的教师资源

可持续设计基础：是一种重要的资源，面向建筑和室内设计本科生或一年级研究生，以及希望将可持续设计知识和技术融入到实践中的设计专业人员。