Beyond environmental comfort / / edited by Boon Lay Ong

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 720/.47
• Soggetto topico: Architecture - Human factors; Human comfort
• Classificazione: ARC000000TEC005000
• Persona (resp. second.): OngBoon Lay
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Environmental Comfort and Beyond; 2 Sensory Pleasure and Homeostasis; 3 Consciousness, Well-being and the Senses; 4 Cultural Responses to Primitive Needs; 5 Acoustical Aesthetics, Sound and Space; 6 Existential Comfort: Lived Space and Architecture; 7 Outdoor Environment Indoor Space; 8 The Poetics of Environment; 9 Why does the Environment Matter?; 10 Biophilia, Topophilia and Home; 11 Green Pleasures; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Although thermal comfort is the main topic of this book, the sense of comfort is so integral to our general sense of well-being and how we experience buildings that research in this field has expanded to address that larger picture. As such, experts from different fields have contributed in their own respective ways to the overall understanding of the subject. This is the first time that these diverse views have been brought together and additionally, an attempt is made to define the field for the future"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond environmental comfort
• ISBN: 1-136-30921-7; 0-415-45369-0; 1-136-30922-5; 0-203-11833-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809850303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II