The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer is an accessible and highly illustrated guide which primes those involved in the design and research of tall buildings to dramatically improve their performance. Using a mixture of original research and analysis best-practice design thinking and a detailed look at exemplar case studies author Philip Oldfield takes the reader through the architectural ideas engineering strategies and cutting-edge technologies that are available to the tall building design team. The book takes a global perspective examining high-rise design in different climates cultures and contexts. It considers common functions such as high-rise housing and offices to more radical designs such as vertical farming and vertical cemeteries. Innovation is provided by examining not only the environmental performance of tall buildings but also their social sustainability guiding the reader through strategies to create successful communities at height. The book starts by critically appraising the sustainability of tall building architecture past and present before demonstrating innovative ways for future tall buildings to be designed. These include themes such as climatically responsive architecture siting a tall building in the city zero-carbon towers skygardens and community spaces at height sustainable structural systems and novel façades. In doing so the book provides essential reading for architects engineers consultants developers researchers and students engaged with sustainable design and high-rise architecture. |The Sustainable Tall Building A Design Primer | Architecture
