PASSIVE RESILIENCE

Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen and Veera Saastamoinen

KEY READINGS 

  • Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., Designing for the climate emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, RIBA

  • Pelsmakers, S., The Environmental Design Pocketbook, RIBA

  • Nick Baker and Koen Steemers, Healthy Homes: Designing with Light and Air for Sustainability and Wellbeing, RIBA

  • Vivienne Brophy and J. Owen Lewis, A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design, Routledge

  • Huw Heywood, 101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture, RIBA

  • Kimpian, J., Hartman, H., Pelsmakers, S. Energy, People Buildings: Making Sustainable Architecture Work, RIBA

INSPIRATIONAL BUILT EXAMPLES

  • Alvar Aalto, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark

  • Glenn Murcutt, Marie Short/Glenn Murcutt House, Kempsey, Australia

  • Herzog & de Meuron, Dominus Winery, California, USA

  • Sauerbruch Hutton, GSW Headquarters Tower, Berlin, Germany

  • Muzharul Islam, The College of Arts and Crafts, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Geoffrey Bawa, Ena de Silva House, Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • Charles Correa, Tube Housing, Ahmedabad, India

  • Glenn Murcutt, Marika House, Australia

  • Bearth and Deplazes, Vineyard Gantenbein, Switzerland

NATURAL VENTILATION

Natural ventilation is used to reduce overheating during hot periods (e.g. heat waves, in a hot climate). You must always consider natural ventilation and cooling strategies before considering active systems. Natural ventilation needs and strategies differ depending on different climates and building use and other factors, so you need to explore and understand the needs of your project and the context at the early design stages (Step 1). Natural ventilation in summer / during hot periods can be achieved with purge ventilation (cross-ventilation, single-sided ventilation, stack ventilation - also used for night-cooling), and earth tubes and evaporative cooling. In a cold / temperate climate year-round controlled background ventilation is also needed to ensure good indoor air quality (IAQ), this is often provided by low-energy Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR).

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