Lisa Heschong
Autor(a) de Thermal Delight in Architecture
Obras de Lisa Heschong
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 144
- Popularidade
- #143,281
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 8
- Idiomas
- 1
Thermal regulation is necessary for life. Humans can only live with a reasonably small range of temperatures. As Heschong puts it, "Buildings, even in the conventional ways we now build them, can be viewed as a way to modify a landscape to create more favorable microclimates."
Yet once that basic need is met, thermal regulation takes on an aesthetic aspect. Take sitting around a fire as an example. Part of the delightfulness of such as exercise is from the contrast between the warm (perhaps almost too warm) fire and the cooler space beyond. Heschong gives many other examples, all of which lead to the conclusion that, despite common building practices, our buildings are more delightful when they are not uniformly heated and cooled.
It's an interesting thesis and has some intuitive appeal, but overall, as a lay person, I was left with a "so what" feeling.… (mais)