Sustainable School Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable School Architecture write by Lisa Gelfand. This book was released on 2010-03-29. Sustainable School Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get the comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of schools. The elementary and secondary school buildings and campuses built today are the schools of the future. Sustainable School Architecture is a guide to the planning, architecture, and design of schools that are healthy, stimulating, and will conserve energy and resources. Written with the needs of architects, construction professionals, educators, and school administration in mind, the book provides a road map for sustainable planning, design, construction, and operations. By its very nature, a school is often the centerpiece of its community and, therefore, well positioned to take the lead in influencing environmental awareness. Building on this point, Sustainable School Architecture shows how eco-friendly practices for school construction can create an environment that young students will emulate and carry into the world. Written by experts on sustainable school design, this book: Focuses on the links between best sustainable practices and the specific needs of educational institutions. Has nineteen international case studies of the best contemporary sustainable schools located in urban, suburban, and rural communities in temperate, tropical, and extreme climate zones. Contains valuable information on the California Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) rating system. Serves as a resource for incremental modernization and operation strategies as well as comprehensive transformation. Offers tips on running an integrated, community-based design process with support information on the materials and systems of the sustainable school. Includes contributions by experts on approaches to the sites, systems, maintenance, and operation of sustainable schools. With a practical overview of how sustainability can be achieved in new and existing schools, and how to maintain this momentum in the years ahead, this important book provides architects with detailed guidance for designing healthier learning environments to help usher in a more promising future.
Designing the Sustainable School
Designing the Sustainable School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing the Sustainable School write by Alan Ford. This book was released on 2007. Designing the Sustainable School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having designed more than 75 K-12 school projects, and with a long-standing commitment to sustainability and a passion for architecture, Alan Ford is perfectly positioned to present this illuminating collection of sustainable school projects from around the world. Designing the Sustainable School is a compendium of ideas illustrating how some very talented architects and committed facility planners are meeting the challenge of creating better schools for the 21st century. They are creating schools that are eco-friendly, embody high-performance design principles, are rich in architectural character, and enhance the health and well-being of students and teachers. The projects represent a wide range of design solutions, aesthetics, location, and scale, ranging in size from the Aga Khan Award-winning three-room schoolhouse in Burkina Faso by Diebedo Francis Kere, to the 2500-student, 260,000-square-foot high school in Santa Ana, California by LPA Architects. Each of the 45 featured projects is presented with an overview of the components of the high-performance "tool kit" employed by architects to achieve sustainable design goals. Collectively, these demonstrate the breadth of tools that today's architects can employ to build a sustainable future for our children.
Schools for the Future
Schools for the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schools for the Future write by Great Britain: Department for Education and Skills. This book was released on 2006-11-30. Schools for the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication contains 12 case studies of sustainable school building design, with practical examples of primary and secondary schools around the country that have addressed the environmental challenges of sustainable development to deliver school buildings that use less energy and water, that minimise waste and avoid the use of pollutants, that protect and enhance habitats for plants and wildlife, and that meet wider community needs. This guide is designed to be accessible to the whole school community, but it is aimed particularly at professionals such as designers and local authority clients. It also addresses the refurbishment of existing schools as many sustainability techniques used in the design of new schools can be applied to existing schools, and vice versa.. More information on DfES policies relating to sustainable development can be found at: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools and at http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainabledesign
Linking Architecture and Education
Linking Architecture and Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linking Architecture and Education write by Anne Taylor. This book was released on 2009-05-16. Linking Architecture and Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the past forty years Anne Taylor has studied how schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, museums, and parks affect children and how they learn. As a result, she has developed a holistic, sustainable philosophy of learning environment design. She argues persuasively that architects must integrate their design knowledge with an understanding of the developmental needs of learners, while at the same time educators, parents, and students must broaden their awareness of the built, natural, and cultural environment to maximize the learning experience. In other words, schools and other environments can themselves become "three-dimensional textbooks." When architects are cognizant of newer models of education and educators view the environment as more than a box in which to teach prescribed lessons, the result is an informed architecture that enables children to discover the power of their own learning. The book presents numerous examples of dynamic designs that are the result of interdisciplinary understanding of place. Taylor includes designer perspectives, forums derived from commentary by outside contributors involved in school planning, and a wealth of photographs of thoughtful and effective solutions to create learning environments from comprehensive design criteria. Because the concept of "school" is enlarged to a community campus, the book also spawns a new model of teaching and learning. This book is essential reading for educators, architects, and community members who are anxious to transform education in America and elsewhere. "Anne Taylor is the most outstanding educator, leading proponent, and practitioner in the three-dimensional textbook field. Her work is the finest resource available for connecting students (young and old) to their learning environments, and visa versa."--Edward E. Kirkbride, NCARB, REFP "Before Western man divided the universe into discrete subject matter areas, the order in the universe was (and still is) both interdisciplinary and holistic. The branching of trees, spiraling of shells, meandering of streams, and the radial designs of flowers, for example, represent an analogy of mathematics, biology, and art. The current artificial separation of subject matter is in contrast to the way the world is constructed and the way children perceive it. Architecture and the study of the built, natural, and cultural environment synthesize the world of material things and the world of ideas. Further more, it helps us to realize that we are a part of not apart from the environment. This book is a tool and a gift to designers, educators, and students everywhere to assist them in seeing the meaning behind all that we view and use for living on earth. To know our precious relationship to our surroundings is the intent of this book. In this way, life is a work of art and each of us is an artist."--Anne Taylor
Architecture as Pedagog Y
Architecture as Pedagog Y - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture as Pedagog Y write by Ester Ehrlich Schwartz. This book was released on 2013. Architecture as Pedagog Y available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The importance of school buildings has been recognized as a fundamental element of modern society. Today, roughly a quarter of America’s population, including our youngest citizens, spend the majority of their days in school buildings. Still, many of our nation’s schools are in disrepair, with systems in need of repair or replacement. Over the years, strong evidence and research have shown that school building impact student’s health and their ability to learn. Green schools mean healthier environments for students and staff. Pragmatically, we also know that that green schools save money. Energy-efficient buildings help reduce energy costs, which in turn frees up money for crucial academic and student support services. This thesis proposes a study in which a combination of green school design and educational goals set the stage for the attributes of green schools to become teaching tools that help children develop a conscience of sustainability and complexity of living and built systems around us. Assuming that school facilities, whether functioning well or not, serve as powerful pedagogical instrument, one may argue that if the power of these attributes as three-dimensional textbooks was connected, the impact on learning for the next generation of students would be limitless. School buildings could then provide students with opportunities to connect with themselves, their community and their local environment. Through hands-on, real world learning experiences children could see their learning as relevant to their world, take pride in the place they live and grow to become concerned and contributing citizens. Through the exploration of themes of sustainable design, ecological schoolyards and environmental education, along with case studies, I will gather creative ideas which schools have successfully developed on their grounds to create opportunities that encourage children to explore the natural environment and learn about sustainability. Finally, the goal of this thesis will be to demonstrate how architecture can become an important part of educating our children about stewardship and sustainability, setting them to create a sustainable future.
