Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health (Springer Optimization and Its Applications Book 56)

Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design. Numerous methods have been developed to enhance architectural design in order for it to be more energy efficient, sustainable and health enhancing. This book presents several theories and techniques that can be used to improve how buildings are engineered and designed in order to utilize more sustainable construction methods while promoting the health of the building's occupants. Contributions to the study of environmental design have come from a diversity of fields including applied mathematics, optimization, computer science, medical research, psychology, management science, architecture, and engineering. The techniques developed in these areas of research can be used to increase building performance, occupant satisfaction, productivity, and well being, and reducing the incidence of health conditions and chronic diseases related to the use of a designed space. This book provides architectural practitioners, civil engineers as well as other interdisciplinary researchers with the techniques needed to design, implement, and test for sustainability and health promotion in new or existing structures. The Chapters In This Book, Written By International Experts From Different Fields Of Architecture And Engineering, Are Devoted To Recent Interdisciplinary Works In A Variety Of Subjects Related To Sustainable Architecture And Engineering, Environmental Modeling, Behavioral Science And Public Health. The Invited Contributions Focus On New Ideas, Concepts And Research Work With Multidisciplinary Applications. Special Features Of This Volume Include Indoor And Urban Design Impacts On Human Comfort, Modeling And Assessment Of Multi-scale Design Dynamics, As Well As New Results From Diverse Areas Of Research Spanning From Architecture And Engineering To Neuroscience And Public Health. Sustainable Environmental Design In Architecture Is Intended For Graduate Students And Researchers Of Architecture, Engineering, Neuroscience, Public Health, Social And Computational Sciences, Architectural Modeling And Related Fields. Sustainability And Neuroscience / John P. Eberhard -- Behavioral Science Perspectives On Designing The Environment To Promote Child Health / Mckane E. Sharff, Elissa Gerfen, And Kenneth P. Tercyak -- Form Follows Function : Bridging Neuroscience And Architecture / Eve A. Edelstein And Eduardo Macagno -- Active Transport, The Built Environment, And Human Health / Takemi Sugiyama, Maike Neuhaus, And Neville Owen -- Environmental Control And The Creation Of Well-being / Shweta Manchanda And Koen Steemers -- Design Of Healthy, Comfortable, And Energy-efficient Buildings / Claude-alain Roulet Et Al. -- Environmental And Behavioral Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning Use In Athens And London / Lia Chatzidiakou Et Al. -- The Influence Of Weather Conditions On Pedestrians' Behavior And Motion, With Respect To Queues In Outdoor Urban Areas / Ioannis Tzouvadakis And Athanassios Stamos --^ The Health Of Informal Settlements : Illness And The Internal Thermal Conditions Of Informal Housing / Matthew French And John Gardner -- Live Urbanism : Towards Senseable Cities And Beyond / Bernd Resch, Rex Britter, And Carlo Ratti -- Computer-aided Analysis Of Pedestrians' Motion Behavior Using Video Frames / Ioannis Tzouvadakis, Athanassios Stamos, And Dimitra Vassilaki -- The Sustainable Schedule Of Hospital Spaces : Investigating The Duffle Coat Theory / William Fawcett -- Philosophy About The Quality Of Our Indoor Climate / Leo De Ruijssher -- Sustainable Environmental Design In Architecture : Impacts On Health, The Variety Of Problems, And Problems Of The Variety / Mojtaba Samimi, Mohammad Yousef Nili, And Sana Seifi -- Forming The Building Blocks Of A Sustainable Environment : How Dialogue And Public Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions / William Frnech And Salome Meyer -- Advantages Of The Verticalo Farm / Dickinson Despommier --^ Restoration-preservation In An Urban Environment And Seismic Stability Of The Statues Of Athena And Apollo Along The Forefront Of The Academy Of Athens / Antonios Kounadis And Nikolaos Makris -- A Health Damage Pattern Due To Street-level Pollution In The Central Paris Area Estimated With A Turbulence-resolving Model / Igor Esau -- Les écoquartiers En France / Pierre Lefèvre. Stamatina Th. Rassia, Panos M. Pardalos, Editors ; Foreword By Nick V. Baker. Includes Bibliographical References. Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture 3 Foreword 5 Preface 9 Contents 11 Contributors 15 Part I: Public Health and Neuroscience for Architecture and Sustainability 19 Chapter 1: Sustainability and Neuroscience 20 Chapter 2: Behavioral Science Perspectives on Designing the Environment to Promote Child Health 24 Chapter 3: Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture 43 Part II: Indoor Environmental Design Impacts on Health and Well-Being 58 Chapter 4: Active Transport, the Built Environment, and Human Health 59 Chapter 5: Environmental Control and the Creation of Well-being 82 Chapter 6: Design of Healthy, Comfortable, and Energy-Efficient Buildings 95 Part III: Impact of Outdoor Environmental Conditions on Human Behavior and Health 121 Chapter 7: Environmental and Behavioral Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning Use in Athens and London 122 Chapter 8: The Influence of Weather Conditions on Pedestrians’ Behavior and Motion, with Respect to Queues in Outdoor Urban Areas 155 Part IV: Remote Sensing, Modeling and Assessment of Multi-Scale Design Dynamics 166 Chapter 9: The Health of Informal Settlements: Illness and the Internal Thermal Conditions of Informal Housing 167 Chapter 10: Live Urbanism ? Towards Senseable Cities and Beyond 182 Chapter 11: Computer-Aided Analysis of Pedestrians’ Motion Behavior Using Video Frames 192 Part V: Sustainability: Theory, Philosophy and Diplomacy 200 Chapter 12: The Sustainable Schedule of Hospital Spaces: Investigating the ‘Duffle Coat’ Theory 201 Chapter 13: Philosophy About the Quality of Our Indoor Climate 218 Chapter 14: Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture ? Impacts on Health, the Variety of Problems and Problems of the Variety 238 Chapter 15: Forming the Building Blocks of a Sustainable Environment: How Dialogue and Public Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions 254 Part VI: Ecology, Damage and Pollution in Multi-Scale Environments 261 Chapter 16: Advantages of the Vertical Farm 262 Chapter 17: Restoration?Preservation in an Urban Environment and Seismic Stability of the Statues of Athena and Apollo Along the Forefront of the Academy of Athens 279 Chapter 18: A Health Damage Pattern Due to Street-Level Pollution in the Central Paris Area Estimated With a Turbulence-Resolving Model 308 Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Sustainability and Neuroscience....Pages 3-6 Behavioral Science Perspectives on Designing the Environment to Promote Child Health....Pages 7-25 Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture....Pages 27-41 Active Transport, the Built Environment, and Human Health....Pages 43-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Environmental Control and the Creation of Well-being....Pages 69-81 Design of Healthy, Comfortable, and Energy-Efficient Buildings....Pages 83-108 Environmental and Behavioral Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning Use in Athens and London....Pages 109-141 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 The Influence of Weather Conditions on Pedestrians’ Behavior and Motion, with Respect to Queues in Outdoor Urban Areas....Pages 145-155 The Health of Informal Settlements: Illness and the Internal Thermal Conditions of Informal Housing....Pages 157-171 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Live Urbanism – Towards SENSEable Cities and Beyond....Pages 175-184 Computer-Aided Analysis of Pedestrians’ Motion Behavior Using Video Frames....Pages 185-192 The Sustainable Schedule of Hospital Spaces: Investigating the ‘Duffle Coat’ Theory....Pages 193-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Philosophy About the Quality of Our Indoor Climate....Pages 213-232 Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture – Impacts on Health, the Variety of Problems and Problems of the Variety....Pages 233-248 Forming the Building Blocks of a Sustainable Environment: How Dialogue and Public Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions....Pages 249-255 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Advantages of the Vertical Farm....Pages 259-275 Restoration–Preservation in an Urban Environment and Seismic Stability of the Statues of Athena and Apollo Along the Forefront of the Academy of Athens....Pages 277-305 A Health Damage Pattern Due to Street-Level Pollution in the Central Paris Area Estimated With a Turbulence-Resolving Model....Pages 307-324 Les Ecoquartiers En France....Pages 325-336 This book examines sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. It covers a wide array of topics, including indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort and modeling of multi-scale design dynamics.