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Naturally Animated Architecture
Using the Movements of the Sun, Wind, and Rain to Bring Indoor Spaces and Sustainable Practices to Life
Winner of 2018 Digital Book World Awards — Best Book in Architecture
This video-augmented book explains how the natural movements of the sun, wind and rain can be used to improve the well-being of people in buildings and raise awareness of sustainable living practices. In demonstrating how buildings can be designed to reconcile their traditional role as shelter from the elements with the active inclusion of their movement, the book shows how, in the process of separating us from the extremes of the natural world, architecture can also be a means of reconnecting us with nature.
The e-version of this book is also available on Amazon, Apple and Kobo.
Contents:
Redefining Interior Space (Kengo Kuma)
Here But Not Present (Kevin Nute)
Missing Nature and Change:
The Hidden Price of Shelter
Testing the Theory
Sustaining the Earth as Well as Ourselves
Sunlight:
Migrating Sunlight
Seeing the Earth's Rotation
Transforming Light and Shade
Curved Surfaces and Changing Light Patterns
Tracking the Sun Under Cloudy Skies
Colored Sunlight
Making the Sun's Heat Visible
Sun-Based Indoor Animation
Wind:
Wind-Generated Movement
Wind-Animated Shading
The Benefits of Translucency
Still Water and Moving Air
Prospects Without Windows
Invisible Change
Wind-Based Indoor Animation
Rain:
Standing Water Revealing Falling Water
Rediscovering Rainwater Runoff
Rain Shadows
The Sounds of Rain
Rain-Based Indoor Animation
Sustaining the Earth as Well as Ourselves:
Naturally Animated Sustainable Practices
Natural Movement and Low Technology
Implications
Appendices:
The Water Light Shelf
The Digital Tree Shadow
Mediated Wind Movement
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index
Readership: Architects, interior designers, undergraduate and graduate students of architecture and those interested in sustainable, natural buildings.
The following eight videos from the book can be viewed here as a sample. The remaining forty plus video and audio clips can be accessed by scanning photographs in the print book with a smartphone. Electronic versions of the book also exist for the Apple i-Book, Rakuten Kobo and Amazon Kindle platforms:
Reflected Water Caustics
Convection Caustics
Back-Projected Caustics
Water Caustics at Night
Glass Roof Pond Caustics
Glass Roof Pond Caustics
Wind-Animated Spectrum
Camera Obscura Video
Modern Impluvium
Rain on Courtyard Pool
Rain on Courtyard Pool
Eaves Rainwater Runoff
Roof Cascade Waterfall
Rain-Shedding Glass Roof Rain-Collecting Glass Roof
Rainwater Runoff Shadows
Night Rain Shadows Night Raindrop Reflections
Night Raindrop Reflections
Mechanical Movement
WLS Field Testing
Algorithm-Animated Tree
Wind-Animated Tree
Audios
Summer Breeze Sound
Winter Gale Sound
Sound of Rain on Foliage
Sound of Rain on Glass
Sound of Rain on Fabric