Climate Skin

by Hausladen, Gerhard

• ISBN13: 9783764377250
• ISBN10: 3764377259
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-03
• Publisher: Birkhauser Architecture

Summary

The facade plays a critical role in the conception of energy- and climate-optimized buildings: it is the building's skin and functions as an interface between interior and exterior space. It provides thermal and sound insulation and ventilation, and controls and guides the entrance of daylight into the building. Climate Skin offers concrete planning advice for architects and engineers who wish to exploit not only the architectural potential of facades but also their energy and climate-control possibilities, treating the building envelope as an essential component within a complete climate-control and technology solution. It provides a solid foundation of knowledge that equips the reader to make competent technical and economic evaluations of building envelopes. For everyone concerned with facades, Climate Skin is a comprehensive planning handbook and reference work that covers all of the relevant technical and physical aspects of the design and detailed planning of energy-efficient facades.

Author Biography

Gerhard Hausladen is a professor at the Lehrstuhl fur Bauklimatik und Haustechnik at the Technische Universitat Munchen.

Table of Contents

Essay	p. 8
Building skins	p. 10
Human skin	p. 12
Clothing	p. 13
Building	p. 14
Atmosphere	p. 15
Climatic factors	p. 17
Climate in cities	p. 18
Facade functions	p. 26
The facade in winter	p. 28
The facade in summer	p. 38
Ventilation	p. 52
Daylight	p. 66
Facade concepts	p. 84
Facade principles	p. 86
Facade typology	p. 94
Facade technologies	p. 120
Facade interactions	p. 148
The facade as an interface	p. 150
Light - facade - indoor climate - building technology	p. 158
Design guidelines	p. 166
Appendix	p. 174
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