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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Building Orientation"”.
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Residential building design : comprehensive comparative guidelines for building single-family dwellings in Hawaii
… strategies that can be applied to site planning, building orientation, building form, roof design, wall design, and foundation design. In addition to energy efficiency, homes in Hawaii must also provide protection from natural disasters. In the past, earthquakes and hurricanes have caused much …
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Therapeutic Architecture: Housing for People with Dementia
… more intensively to the immediate environment. Building orientation, color, lighting, and access to nature can affect the psyche of a resident and can help stabilize and reduce the effects of the disease.
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Alexandria Underwater Museum For Sunken Monuments
… architectural context: "Underwater museum". The building orientation, shape and location allow a discovery of the building elements and shape consequently while participating in the building visit. From street level, the building can be seen as a simple curved wall on the harbor facing the sea. …
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The effects of building envelope parameters on energy performance for high-rise buildings in central Saudi Arabia
… mainly for generating electricity to operate buildings and cope with population growth. Despite Saudi Arabia’s fast economic development, building envelopes in Saudi Arabia deserve more research attention to address energy consumption and environmental challenges. With the extremely hot …
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Adapting vernacular strategies for the design of an energy efficient residential building in a hot and arid climate: City of Yazd, Iran
<p>Today, buildings consume a significant amount of primary energy, and consequently they are a major source for greenhouse gas emissions resulting in global warming. During the last decades, the concept of sustainable architecture with the major aim of diminishing negative environmental impact of …
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Re-imagining the Maison Tropicale : a 21st century prefabricated building system inspired by Jean Prouvé
… workers is required to construct the final building. Lastly, the kit of parts was applied to the design of a new home in the Tropics, accounting for local concerns such as shading building orientation, moisture and ventilation.
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Natural ventilation through windows in a classroom (CFD analysis crossventilation of asymmetric openings: Impact of wind direction and louvers design)
… façade such as an angle and geometry of louvers, building orientation and wind direction. Therefore, the geometry of louvers and wind direction can have a considerable influence on the cross-ventilation flow. Many studies on natural ventilation have been released in the past, however, a review of …
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The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign
… a broad-based, political capacity for movement building orientation. I suggest that this is largely so because the social coordination of what we do and what we understand about what we do turns on at least three components of social reality: an institution-based organization of multi-layered …
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Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system energy demand coupling with building loads for office buildings.
The UK building stock accounts for about half of all energy consumed in the UK. A large portion of the energy is consumed by nondomestic buildings. Offices and retail are the most energy intensive typologies within the nondomestic building sector, typically accounting for over 50% of the …