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Buildings &Climate

dWood, Seattle,ington

Passive Environmental Architecture (Arc 313)B Prialuc !sou"a #edd

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Climate varies around the glo$e andindigenous architecture used to res%ond toclimate

'thcentur $uildings $ecame eclusivelde%endent on mechanical sstems to heatand cool $uildings

International Stle Architecture,characteri"ed $ sealed $uildings, tried to

create an architectural stle that ignoredclimate

Such $uildings have dou$led the AE*selectricit demand over the last decade

+rom 3 $illion -Wh to over .' $illion -Wh/hen com%ared to a %o%ulation increase o+a%%ro 0' over the same %eriod2 and thiscannot $e sustained given Climate Change(4) and +ossil +uel shortages5

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Weather and Climate6

7he /eather o+ the/orld varies $location as relates tothe distance +rom thee8uator and asin9uenced $ as%ects

o+ geogra%h such asthe trade /inds,ad:acenc to $odieso+ /ater, elevation,etc5

7he earth*satmos%here hel%s tomoderate the climateto %revent radicalshi+ts in tem%erature+rom season to

season and da tonight5

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7he Sun

7he im%act o+ thesun on our $uildingsis a direct result o+our distance +romthe e8uator5

7his a;ectsamounts o+ solarradiation as /ell assolar geometr5

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A $uilding*s %rimar +unctionis to %rovide shelter +romthe elements, as a +unctiono+ C5 solar and other radiation

Environmental

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r$an Ecolog Centre,

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Building envelo%es are li-e

$alloons?

=odern $uilding envelo%es are li-e $alloons? ver thin $uttheir %er+ormance is there+ore even more critical@

#ose Planetarium, C

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7echni8ue vs5 7echnolog

ld stone$uildingsrelied ontheirmassive

nature to/ithstandthe /eather5e/$uildings arecom%rised o+

thinnerlaers, thatareindividuallless a$le to/ithstand

theelements5

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4igh Per+ormance Buildings

7hese $uildings also have Dthins-ins5 But no/adas, %eo%le e%ectan a/+ul lot =#E PE#F#=ACE+rom their $uildings 2 astechnological sm$ols and cultural

icons5 Shelter is just not enough.

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