Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies , Professional Ed.

This book is for designers who want to exploit the form-generating potential of sun, wind, and light in the earliest stages of the design process. It stresses the energy implications of using sun, wind, and light. However, the book is organized by the architectural elements designers manipulate - streets, open spaces and buildings, rooms and courtyards, and walls, roofs, floors, and windows. These elements are discussed in terms of their organization: layered, elongated, dispersed, compact, and zoned, and their attributes: shape, orientation, enclosure, edge, and size. In addition, the contents are matched to the scale that is being considered- building groups, individual buildings, and building parts.