Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes : Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice

Editor's Preface: High Performance Homes: Metrics, Ethics and Design Franca Trubiano Introduction: Household Power: How Much is Enough? William W Braham Part 1: Building Envelopes, New Materials and Architectural Design 1.1 Energy Free Architectural Design - The Case of PassivHaus and Double Skin Facades Franca Trubiano 1.2 Translucent Building Skins - Advancing the Technology of Light Transmission Franca Trubiano 1.3 Responsive Building Envelopes: Characteristics and Evolving Paradigms Kathy Velikov and Geoffrey Thun 1.4 Nano-Materials + Super Insulator = Aerogel Franca Trubiano Part 2: Renewable Energies, Building Systems and Simulations 2.1 The Design Integration of Renewable Energies Franca Trubiano and Russell Gentry 2.2 Systems Integrated Photovoltaics, SIPV Jeffrey Brownson 2.3 Building Systems, Controls and Automation Russell Gentry 2.4 Building Performance and Computational Simulation Yun Kyu Yi Part 3: Integrated Practice and Residential Construction 3.1 Integrated Project Delivery - Contracting for High Performance Ryan Smith and Joerg Rugemer 3.2 Energy and the Integrative Design Process, Defining the Team of Experts Lisa Iulo 3.3 The Construction of Low Energy Prefabricated Housing in Denmark Anne Beim and Kasper Sanchez Vibaek 3.4 From Modeling to Making, Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Tristan Al-Haddad Part 4: High Performance Homes: Case Studies 4.1 LumenHaus and the Eclipsis Sun Control System Robert Dunay, Joseph Wheeler and Robert Schubert 4.2 Project Icarus: Optimizing Light and Energy in the Design of a Translucent Roof Franca Trubiano 4.3 North House: Climate Responsive Envelope and Control System Geoffrey Thun and Kathy Velikov 4.4 Modular Building Three Scales/Three Strategies Lisa Iulo