Passive Design Strategies to Adapt to Heat Waves: Thermal Comfort, Energy Efficiency, and Building Resilience offers a comprehensive guide to passive design techniques tailored to various climate zones. Combining historical insights with modern advancements, this book explores practical strategies for enhancing thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and building resilience. Aimed at architects, engineers, researchers, and students, it bridges the gap between theory and application, providing real-world case studies and simulation methodologies. With a focus on reducing energy consumption and supporting global sustainability goals, it delivers actionable solutions for creating adaptive, energy-efficient buildings worldwide.
• Explores passive design techniques tailored to diverse climates, including hot and dry, hot and humid, Mediterranean, temperate, and continental regions.
• Integrates historical architecture with modern energy-efficient design, supported by real-world case studies and simulation methodologies.
• Emphasizes reducing energy consumption, enhancing thermal comfort, and building resilience to improve sustainability.
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