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Also available at Kobo

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.

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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.