Overheating Prevention
PASSIVE RESILIENCE
Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen and Veera Saastamoinen
KEY READINGS
Gething, B., Puckett, K., Design for Climate Change, RIBA
Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., Designing for the climate emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, 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
Taylor et al, Ten questions concerning residential overheating in Central and Northern Europe in Building and Environment, Vol. 234, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132323001816
Pelsmakers, S., The Environmental Design Pocketbook, RIBA
Olgyay, V., Design with Climate: A Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
Huw Heywood, 101 Rules of Thumb for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, RIBA
Cooling buildings sustainably in Europe: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/cooling-buildings-sustainably-in-europe
Solar angle (altitude and azimuth) calculation tool, for example: www.suncalc.org
INSPIRATIONAL BUILT EXAMPLES
HHS architects/Jourda and Gilles Perraudin, Mont-Cenis Academy, Herne, Germany
Haworth Tompkins, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, UK
Jørn Utzon, Can Lis, Majorca, Spain
Francis Kere, Gando Primary School, Boulgou Province, Burkina Faso
The Vauban, Freiburg, Germany
Architype Architects – The Enterprise Centre, Norwich, UK
OVERHEATING PREVENTION
Building overheating is an increased risk in a changing climate, and is influenced by outdoor environmental conditions, the design of the building, internal production of heat and occupant behaviour. Overheating affects the health and well-being of people, especially older and vulnerable people and can lead to increased injustices and can cause increased mortality. Key strategies to prevent overheating that you should include in your project is to first and foremost ensure all sources of overheating are tackled first and risks minimised. Then provide green, blue and social infrastructure at macro, meso, and micro-scale (building-scale). The design of the building should also include: light coloured surfaces, careful building form, orientation and design of windows, efficient fabric with summer solar shading and appropriate (night) ventilation strategies