Beyond Environmental Comfort

Boon Lay Ong, Boon Lay Ong

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136309212
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Beyond Environmental Comfort highlights some of the key ideas that form the foundation of the field of environmental comfort and, at the same time, gives voice to some of the concerns and considerations on the limitations of the field as it stands today.

Bringing together a range of foremost thinkers in their respective fields - Michel Cabanac, Derek Clements-Croome, Nick Baker, Harold Marshall, Juhani Pallasmaa, Dean Hawkes, and Constance Classen - this book argues for a deeper appreciation of how environmental comfort may be understood in terms of our relationship with the environment rather than as independent qualities. For the first time these diverse views are brought together by Editor Boon Lay Ong to present insights into a world beyond what is normally covered in academic research. In the process, an attempt is made to define the field for the future.

This book shows that it is by understanding just how environmental design needs to go beyond mere comfort and deal with well-being that we can meaningfully design our future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Environmental Comfort and Beyond
• 2 Sensory Pleasure and Homeostasis
• 3 Consciousness, Well-being and the Senses
• 4 Cultural Responses to Primitive Needs
• 5 Acoustical Aesthetics, Sound and Space
• 6 Existential Comfort: Lived Space and Architecture
• 7 Outdoor Environment Indoor Space
• 8 The Poetics of Environment
• 9 Why does the Environment Matter?
• 10 Biophilia, Topophilia and Home
• 11 Green Pleasures
• Index