Overview
- Highlights the design of comfortable buildings
- Presents how design perception and, as a result, comfort are an intentional feature of architectural design
- Helps architects in creating spaces that are comfortable in terms of thermal and visual aspects
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology (BRIEFSARCHIDE)
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About this book
This book discusses the design of comfortable buildings and shows that design perception and, as a result, comfort should be an intentional feature of architectural design. Modern buildings are often sealed boxes without operable windows or daylighting design. However, contemporary designers increasingly find themselves faced with the task of creating spaces that are comfortable in terms of thermal and visual aspects.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Alstan Jakubiec is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto where he focuses his efforts on the design of buildings and cities with emphases on human comfort, performance simulation, and low-energy design strategies. He believes that through data-driven processes, designers can create comfortable built environments that will support social interaction, require less energy, and last longer before being razed. Alstan co-created the popular DIVA tool for calculating the daylighting and energy performance of buildings and cities and actively develops new software tools as part of his research.
Before joining the University of Toronto, Alstan taught sustainable design to the first four graduating classes at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He also co-founded Mapdwell, a technology company dedicated to providing information to homeowners about the renewable energy potential of their rooftops. Alstan holds Bachelor’s (Georgia Tech) and Master’s (University of Pennsylvania) degrees in architecture and a PhD in Building Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comfort and Perception in Architecture
Authors: J. Alstan Jakubiec
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1775-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1773-5Published: 02 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1775-9Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2199-580X
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 114
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Building Physics, HVAC, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Structural Materials