Road map to the stars: teaching an integrated approach to energy conserving design

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981 · Proc. Annu. Meet. - Am. Sect. Int. Sol. Energy Soc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6318686

Lakin, J E; Millet, M S

An understanding of the trade-offs between building interior illumination strategies, daylight and/or artifical, and heating and cooling requirements has received an increasing amount of attention. Architects have begun to rekindle an interest in articulating a delicate balance of the simultaneous visual and thermal effects of the sun's rays. The tradition of teaching architecture students about these subjects has accurately reflected the architectural professions abdication of interest and influence to specialist consultants and engineers. As architects reassert their design influence, so is architectural education responding with like concerns. Building on two premises: information must be transfered both experientially and didactically for the greatest amount of longterm learning to occur; the integrated quality of sunlight/daylight, heat and light, should be experienced simultaneously to best transfer students' design awareness of the experience of light; an integrated luminous and thermal approach to energy conserving design has been organized. The approach is documented through one student's work in one of several teaching formats, graduate architecture studio, that have been offered.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Washington, Seattle
• OSTI ID: 6318686
• Report Number(s): CONF-810925-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proc. Annu. Meet. - Am. Sect. Int. Sol. Energy Soc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320100* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Buildings
ARCHITECTURE
BUILDINGS
DAYLIGHTING
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
THERMAL COMFORT
THERMAL EFFICIENCY