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List of Projects | |
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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Environmental Considerations | |
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Take a Bioregional Approach | |
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Apparent Movement of the Sun | |
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Time of Day | |
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Seasons | |
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Geographic and Spatial Location | |
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Sky Conditions | |
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Cosmic Order | |
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Place | |
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Color and Form | |
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Climate and Site | |
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Relationship to the Environment | |
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Solar Access | |
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Comfort | |
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Endnotes | |
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Do More with Less | |
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Illumination | |
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Passive Heating and Cooling | |
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Water and Waste Processing | |
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Electric Energy Generation | |
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Roofs and Skylights | |
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Facade Systems | |
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Shading Systems | |
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Plant Growth | |
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Sunspaces and Greenhouses | |
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Glasshouses and Conservatories | |
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Endnotes | |
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Design for Evolution | |
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Waste and Evolutionary Design | |
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An Evolutionary Approach to Daylighting | |
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Adapting the Past for the Present | |
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Planning in the Present for the Future | |
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Daylighting Concepts for Adaptation and Evolution | |
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Endnotes | |
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Architectonic Considerations | |
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Shape Form to Guide Flow | |
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Form and the Luminous Program | |
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Building Massing | |
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Linear Forms | |
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Centric Forms | |
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Clustered Forms | |
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Building Plan and Section | |
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Room Depth and Height | |
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Surface Form and Characteristics | |
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Windows | |
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Window Size | |
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Window Position | |
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Window Detailing | |
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Endnotes | |
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Use Appropriate Technology | |
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Daylighting Technologies | |
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Architectural and Technological Approaches to Daylighting | |
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Daylighting Technologies and the Building Envelope | |
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Glazing Assemblies and Glass Technologies | |
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Recent Glazing Innovations | |
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New Glazing Research | |
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Daylighting Systems Within the Glazing Cavity | |
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Opportunities of the Glazing Cavity | |
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Glazing Assemblies with Integrated HVAC Systems | |
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Integrated Glazing and Shading Systems | |
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Exterior and Interior Shading System | |
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Endnotes | |
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Human Considerations | |
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Address Health and Well-Being | |
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Light and Clinical Therapy | |
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Phototherapy | |
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Chronotherapy | |
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Chromotherapy | |
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Visual Comfort | |
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Sick Building Syndrome and Building-Related Illness | |
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Computer Vision syndrome and Other Health Issues | |
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Healing Environments | |
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Endnotes | |
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Consider Quality of Life | |
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Social Connections | |
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Human Contact | |
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Hierarchy and Power | |
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Participation and Influence | |
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Environmental Connections | |
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Rural Environments | |
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Urban Environments | |
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Spiritual Connections | |
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Endnotes | |
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Learn from Nature | |
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Ecological Processes | |
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Malcolm Wells: A Wilderness-Based Checklist | |
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John Todd and Nancy Jack Todd: Nine Precepts for Ecology as the Basis for Design | |
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William McDonough: The Hannover Principles | |
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John Tillman Lyle: Strategies for Regenerative Design | |
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Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan: Second-Generation Ecological Design | |
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Ecological Literacy | |
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Ecological Experiences | |
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A Forest Ecosystem | |
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A Wetland Ecosystem | |
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Endnotes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |