Sustainable Design

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Architects identify "sustainability" as the most important change in the future of their profession.
Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning is a practical, comprehensive guide to design and plan a built environment compatible with the region's economic, social, and ecological patterns.

In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, Sustainable Design answers key questions such as:

How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically?

What is the difference between "green design" and "sustainable design"?

What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost?

Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work.

Williams's book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.

Part 1.

CHAPTER ONE: The Ecological Model.

Ecology.
Ecology as a Model.
Waste Debts.
The Value of Land.
Paradigm Shift.
Thinking as a System: Connectivity, Not Fragmentation.

CHAPTER TWO: Sustainable Design.

Where Do We Want to Go?
Design Matters.
Why Architects?
Green Design versus Sustainable Design.
Why Now?
Approaching Sustainability.
Place-Based Energy and Resources.
Principles for Designing Sustainably.
Where to Start?

CHAPTER THREE: Regional Design.

Evolving from Nonrenewables.
Another Weak Link: The Power Grid.
The Regional Design.
Water: A Common Denominator.
Make No Small Plans.
The Regional Design Process.
Regional Case Studies.
Cache Valley, Utah.
Farmington, Minnesota: Building within the Community Watershed.
Smart Growth: Southeast Florida Coastal Communities.

CHAPTER FOUR: Sustainable Urban and Community Design.

A Matter of Place.
Principles for Sustainable Communities.
Regional Ecology and Biourbanism.
Sustainable Urban and Community Case Studies.
Lessons from Belle Glade: Can We Save the Everglades and Sustain Agriculture?
Rio Nuevo Master Plan.
Growing the Great River Park.

CHAPTER FIVE: Architectural Design.

The Site: Challenges and Opportunities.
Site Design and Environmental Analysis.
Sustainable Infrastructure.
The Skin.
Evolving a Sustainable Design Practice.
Sustainable Design and Existing Buildings.
Sustainable Interior Architecture.

Part 2.

CHAPTER SIX: The AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Program.