The Climatic Dwelling: An Introduction to Climate-Responsive Residential Architecture (Eur (Series), 16615 En.)

Designing with the climatic context of buildings in mind is once again becoming an important consideration. A climatic strategy can be fundamental to reducing the fuel consumption of new buildings and so in turn plays a significant part in creating a sustainable architecture.

The Climatic Dwelling provides an introduction to climatic design for residential buildings. It examines the tradition of climatic architecture in the past, offers general strategies for climatic design, and gives a detailed evaluation of several solar building elements. Finally it gives examples of recently designed climatic dwellings.

The material is also available as a resource pack ideal for teaching purposes in schools or larger practices.

The "rich, elegant and ingenious” possibilities of climatic architecture are made accessible in this book to all architectural teachers, students and practitioners.