The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability
This guide is written so that it can be utilized as a real-world guide
Item #: 160-8110-09
ISBN: 0470181109
ISBN13: 9780470181102
Author: 7group, Bill Reed Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Manufacturer Item #: 9780470181102 Format: Hardcover
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Written for architects and the design and construction team, this is a comprehensive guide to an integrated design process to create more sustainable buildings. The book is organized in a sequence similar to that employed by conventional design, so that it can be utilized as a real-world guide. Learning how to shift into the mindset essential to implementing integrated design, readers will explore into such processes as systems thinking, appreciative inquiry, non-hierarchical leadership, holistic mapping, and linear versus integrated architectural design progression. Multiple case studies are incorporated to provide concrete examples of successful integrated design implementation.432 pp.
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Many Minds.
Chapter Two: Building as an Organism.
Chapter Three: Reframing Sustainability.
Chapter Four: Aligning Values, Purpose and Process.
Chapter Five: The Discovery Phase.
Chapter Six: Schematic Design.
Chapter Seven: Design Development and Documentation.
Chapter Eight: Construction, Operations, and Feedback.
Chapter Nine: Epilogue: Evolving the Field.
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability
The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability
