本书从生活方式的选择这一哲学问题出发,介绍了现代优选技术在环境规划领域的运用。展示了建筑领域的绿色环保理念和节能减排技术,并比较了中美两国建筑节能的政策理念和技术。本书提供了大量的绿色节能建筑设计思想的案例,供读者参考。
Part I Sustainable planning and green building design
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Definition of "green building" (what is it?)
1.2 Why green building?
1.3 How to achieve a high performance building?
Chapter 2 Case study one-Gui River project
2.1 Preface
2.2 Site
2.3 Humanistic approach
2.4 Urban systems
2.5 Architecture
2.6 Sustainability
Chapter 3 Case study two-FCG planning
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Site analysis
3.3 Planning strategy
3.4 Urban living
3.5 Architecture
3.6 Eco system + sustainability
Chapter 4 Case study three-GZ Asian game building
4.1 The brief
4.2 The building
4.3 Environmental strategy
4.4 Executive summary
Part II Being the change to design and reshape our world
Chapter 5 The interdisciplinary relationship and structure of human sustainability
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The tetrahedron model
5.3 Conceptual framework
5.4 Our social world
5.5 Our economic world
5.6 Our environmental world
5.7 Our physical world
5.8 Interdisciplinary relationship: Life's restorative design
5.9 Strengthening the social
5.10 Research questions
5.11 The economic equation
5.12 Economic obsession
5.13 Ecological know-how: real or perceived?
5.14 The social challenge
5.15 The environmental plight
5.16 Our health
5.17 Restorative directive
5.18 Summary
References
Chapter 6 Issues and problems
6.1 Ships
6.2 Airplanes
6.3 Automobiles
6.4 Electricity, or the manufacturing and burning of coal
6.5 Travel
6.6 Epilogue
References
Chapter 7 An ecological life means questioning and changing habits
7.1 the necessity of change to preserveour lives and our future: we must
be the change, we seek, to find the true meaning of health
7.2 Summary
References
Chapter 8 Designing for future: architecture, humanity and nature,
in communion
8.1 Architecture as an embodiment of social, economic, environmental
and physical/moral health
8.2 Architecture as ecological process and change: the way of nature
8.3 A new language of design: to save our lives, and our home, the earth
8.4 Architecture as an adaptive organism
8.5 Small is beautiful
8.6 Transluscent walls
8.7 Insulation
8.8 Waterless toilet
8.9 Multiple functioning spaces
8.10 To the future, now
8.11 Epilogue
References