Beyond Environmental Comfort

Herausgeber: Ong, Boon Lay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415453691
• ISBN-10: 0415453690
• Artikelnr.: 26867731

Autorenporträt

Boon Lay Ong currently teaches Environmentally Sustainable Design as course subjects and design studio at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is also noted for developing the Green Plot Ratio, a sustainability metric that is used in Singapore to encourage greenery density.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Airport
Restrooms: Outdoor Environment Indoor Space 8. The Poetics of Environment
9. Why Does the Environment Matter? 10. Biophilia, Topophilia and Home 11.
Green Pleasures