Design and Construction of Bioclimatic Wooden Greenhouses, Volume 4

Architectural Integration and Quantitative Analyses

Gian Luca Brunetti

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781394192175
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Sustainability in Architecture

This book is the fourth of four dealing with bioclimatic design and construction by focusing on the most basic and polyvalent of modern environmental systems: the bioclimatic greenhouse, the "Swiss-army chainsaw" of architecture. More specifically, this fourth volume focuses on architectural integration, environmental prediction and how to simulate and structurally size a bioclimatic wooden greenhouse. In more general terms, it helps us to consider how to design and build the structure of bioclimatic, low-energy architecture, with low environmental impact.

This multi-volume book covers both free-standing greenhouses that can naturally heat and cool themselves, and lean-to greenhouses that support the natural heating and cooling of buildings; this includes both agricultural greenhouses and greenhouses suited to host people. As a result, it is a trans-disciplinary work deriving its areas of concern from a broad range of study areas, spanning from environmental, to constructional, to structural, drawing the clarity of the approach from the fact that the topics are presented by a single author with a single voice and a designer's mindset.

To achieve this, the book adopts a composite set of explanatory strategies and communication registers – including extensive support by 3D construction drawings and examples – and presents not only stateof-the-art solutions, but also experimental ones.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Greenhouse Typologies
• Chapter 2. Calculation Approaches
• Chapter 3. Design Studies
• Conclusion
• Afterword
• Appendices
• References
• Index
• Summaries of other volumes
• EULA