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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. Combining historical insights with modern advancements, this book explores practical strategies for enhancing thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and building resilience. 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 architecture 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
1. Introduction 2. The Escalating Threat of Heat Waves in a Warming World 3. Frameworks for Assessing Building Thermal Comfort: Rating Systems, Standards, and Metrics 4. Thermal Resilience Systems and Indicators 5. Comprehensive Assessment of Passive Strategies: Environmental, Energy, and Economic Perspectives 6. Impacts of Outdoor Temperatures on Indoor Environments 7. Active Strategies for Mitigating Heat Stress in Buildings 8. Passive Cooling as an Alternative to Mechanical Air Conditioning Systems: Theoretical Foundations 9. Solar Shading Principles in Architecture: Climatic Logics and Built Examples 10. Thermal Mass Principles: Climate, Materiality, and Architectural Examples 11. Natural Ventilation Principles: Airflow Mechanisms and Climatic Applications 12. Integrated Passive Cooling in Vernacular Architecture: Synergies of Shading, Thermal Mass, and Natural Ventilation 13. Research in Passive Cooling Technologies 14. Research on Building Thermal Resilience 15. Year-Round Thermal Efficiency 16. Carbon Footprint Analysis of Single-Family Homes in Zielona Góra: The Impact of Climate Scenarios and Construction Choices 17. Innovative Building Solutions for Future Climate Challenges 18. Synthesis and Implications 19. Toward a Climate-Responsive Design Paradigm
