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Combining historical insights with modern advancements, Passive Design Strategies to Adapt to Heat Waves: Thermal Comfort, Energy Efficiency, and Building Resilience offers a comprehensive guide to passive design techniques tailored to various climate zones. Aimed at architects, engineers, researchers, and students, it bridges the gap between theory and application, providing real-world case studies and simulation methodologies. With a focus on reducing energy consumption and supporting global sustainability goals, it delivers actionable solutions for creating adaptive, energy-efficient buildings worldwide.
Explores passive design techniques tailored to diverse climates, including hot and dry, hot and humid, Mediterranean, temperate, and continental regions.
Integrates historical architectural with modern energy-efficient design, supported by real-world case studies and simulation methodologies.
Emphasizes reducing energy consumption, enhancing thermal comfort, and building resilience to improve sustainability.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Escalating Threat of Heat Waves in a Warming World
Chapter 3 Frameworks for Assessing Building Thermal Comfort: Rating Systems, Standards, and Metrics
Chapter 4 Evaluating Building Thermal Resilience: Methods and Indicators
Chapter 5 Comprehensive Assessment of Passive Strategies: Environmental, Energy, and Economic Perspectives
Chapter 6 Impacts of Outdoor Temperatures on Indoor Environments
Chapter 7 Active Strategies for Mitigating Heat Stress in Buildings
Chapter 8 Passive Cooling as an Alternative to Mechanical Air Conditioning Systems: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 9 Practical Applications of Shading Solutions in Architecture
Chapter 10 Thermal Mass in Architectural Design: Function, Climate, and Material Availability
Chapter 11 Practical Applications of Ventilation Technologies in Vernacular Architecture
Chapter 12 Integrated Passive Cooling Strategies in Vernacular Architecture
Chapter 13 Research in Passive Cooling Technologies
Chapter 14 Thermal Mass and Phase Change Materials
Chapter 15 Integrated Passive Strategies
Chapter 16 Research on Building Thermal Resilience
Chapter 17 Innovative Building Solutions for Future Climate
Chapter 18 Conclusion
