Ebook: Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health

Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design. Numerous methods have been developed to enhance architectural design in order for it to be more energy efficient, sustainable and health enhancing.

This book presents several theories and techniques that can be used to improve how buildings are engineered and designed in order to utilize more sustainable construction methods while promoting the health of the building's occupants.

Contributions to the study of environmental design have come from a diversity of fields including applied mathematics, optimization, computer science, medical research, psychology, management science, architecture, and engineering. The techniques developed in these areas of research can be used to increase building performance, occupant satisfaction, productivity, and well being, and reducing the incidence of health conditions and chronic diseases related to the use of a designed space.

This book provides architectural practitioners, civil engineers as well as other interdisciplinary researchers with the techniques needed to design, implement, and test for sustainability and health promotion in new or existing structures.

The chapters in this book, written by international experts from different fields of architecture and engineering, are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. The invited contributions focus on new ideas, concepts and research work with multidisciplinary applications.

Special features of this volume include indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort, modeling and assessment of multi-scale design dynamics, as well as new results from diverse areas of research spanning from architecture and engineering to neuroscience and public health.

Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture is intended for graduate students and researchers of architecture, engineering, neuroscience, public health, social and computational sciences, architectural modeling and related fields.

The chapters in this book, written by international experts from different fields of architecture and engineering, are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. The invited contributions focus on new ideas, concepts and research work with multidisciplinary applications.

Special features of this volume include indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort, modeling and assessment of multi-scale design dynamics, as well as new results from diverse areas of research spanning from architecture and engineering to neuroscience and public health.

Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture is intended for graduate students and researchers of architecture, engineering, neuroscience, public health, social and computational sciences, architectural modeling and related fields.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainability and Neuroscience....Pages 3-6
Behavioral Science Perspectives on Designing the Environment to Promote Child Health....Pages 7-25
Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture....Pages 27-41
Active Transport, the Built Environment, and Human Health....Pages 43-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Environmental Control and the Creation of Well-being....Pages 69-81
Design of Healthy, Comfortable, and Energy-Efficient Buildings....Pages 83-108
Environmental and Behavioral Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning Use in Athens and London....Pages 109-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Influence of Weather Conditions on Pedestrians’ Behavior and Motion, with Respect to Queues in Outdoor Urban Areas....Pages 145-155
The Health of Informal Settlements: Illness and the Internal Thermal Conditions of Informal Housing....Pages 157-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Live Urbanism – Towards SENSEable Cities and Beyond....Pages 175-184
Computer-Aided Analysis of Pedestrians’ Motion Behavior Using Video Frames....Pages 185-192
The Sustainable Schedule of Hospital Spaces: Investigating the ‘Duffle Coat’ Theory....Pages 193-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Philosophy About the Quality of Our Indoor Climate....Pages 213-232
Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture – Impacts on Health, the Variety of Problems and Problems of the Variety....Pages 233-248
Forming the Building Blocks of a Sustainable Environment: How Dialogue and Public Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions....Pages 249-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Advantages of the Vertical Farm....Pages 259-275
Restoration–Preservation in an Urban Environment and Seismic Stability of the Statues of Athena and Apollo Along the Forefront of the Academy of Athens....Pages 277-305
A Health Damage Pattern Due to Street-Level Pollution in the Central Paris Area Estimated With a Turbulence-Resolving Model....Pages 307-324
Les Ecoquartiers En France....Pages 325-336

The chapters in this book, written by international experts from different fields of architecture and engineering, are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. The invited contributions focus on new ideas, concepts and research work with multidisciplinary applications.

Special features of this volume include indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort, modeling and assessment of multi-scale design dynamics, as well as new results from diverse areas of research spanning from architecture and engineering to neuroscience and public health.

Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture is intended for graduate students and researchers of architecture, engineering, neuroscience, public health, social and computational sciences, architectural modeling and related fields.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainability and Neuroscience....Pages 3-6
Behavioral Science Perspectives on Designing the Environment to Promote Child Health....Pages 7-25
Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture....Pages 27-41
Active Transport, the Built Environment, and Human Health....Pages 43-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Environmental Control and the Creation of Well-being....Pages 69-81
Design of Healthy, Comfortable, and Energy-Efficient Buildings....Pages 83-108
Environmental and Behavioral Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning Use in Athens and London....Pages 109-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Influence of Weather Conditions on Pedestrians’ Behavior and Motion, with Respect to Queues in Outdoor Urban Areas....Pages 145-155
The Health of Informal Settlements: Illness and the Internal Thermal Conditions of Informal Housing....Pages 157-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Live Urbanism – Towards SENSEable Cities and Beyond....Pages 175-184
Computer-Aided Analysis of Pedestrians’ Motion Behavior Using Video Frames....Pages 185-192
The Sustainable Schedule of Hospital Spaces: Investigating the ‘Duffle Coat’ Theory....Pages 193-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Philosophy About the Quality of Our Indoor Climate....Pages 213-232
Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture – Impacts on Health, the Variety of Problems and Problems of the Variety....Pages 233-248
Forming the Building Blocks of a Sustainable Environment: How Dialogue and Public Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions....Pages 249-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Advantages of the Vertical Farm....Pages 259-275
Restoration–Preservation in an Urban Environment and Seismic Stability of the Statues of Athena and Apollo Along the Forefront of the Academy of Athens....Pages 277-305
A Health Damage Pattern Due to Street-Level Pollution in the Central Paris Area Estimated With a Turbulence-Resolving Model....Pages 307-324
Les Ecoquartiers En France....Pages 325-336
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