Healthy homes : designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing / Nick Baker and Koen Steemers.

Main entry:

Baker, Nick (Nick Vashon), author.

Title & Author:

Healthy homes : designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing / Nick Baker and Koen Steemers.

Publication:

London : RIBA Publishing, [2019]
©2019

Description:

219 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Dedication: In memory of Theo C. Steemers 1930-2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. The background and growing body of research -- Part two. Technical analysis and design synthesis -- Part three. Designing healthy homes.

Summary:

"It is widely acknowledged that there is an urgent need to transform our housing stock to a better energy performance level. However, improving energy performance should not result in a negative impact on the health, wellbeing and the comfort of building occupants. There are many energy-neutral features that can be incorporated at small or zero cost which have a positive effect on wellbeing. This book aims to outline and discuss these aspects of building design. The issue of health and wellbeing has already entered into design advice for the workplace, where productivity and absenteeism are often used as indicators. This book concentrates on residential buildings, notably mass housing and affordable strategies, for which new, more socially and health-oriented indicators are being developed. Provides practical design guidance based on scientific evidence Explores both physical and psychological wellbeing Focuses on the home and immediate domestic environment Structured in an accessible way for architects and designers."

ISBN:

9781859467138 (hardback)
185946713X (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Health aspects.
Architecture, Domestic Health aspects.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture durable.
Architecture, Domestic Environmental aspects.
Architecture, Domestic Psychological aspects.

Added entries:

Steemers, Koen, author.
Steemers, Koen author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306845
Call No.: BIB 252385
Status: Available

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