The Eco-Home Design Guide: Principles and Practice for New-Build and Retrofit (Sustainable Building #8)

The Eco-Home Design Guide: Principles and Practice for New-Build and Retrofit (Sustainable Building #8)

Christopher Day, HRH The Prince of Wales (Foreword by)
$50.00
Publication Date: October 29th, 2015
Publisher:
Green Books
ISBN:
9780857843050
Pages:
256

Description

Designing an eco home is much more about working with your house's place and situation than relying on intrusive technology and hi-tech materials. In this book, Christopher Day draws on his extensive experience to explain the key principles of eco-home design, using common-sense methods to create a pleasant, comfortable and healthy home.

With beautifully simple hand-drawn illustrations, Christopher takes you through:

- Using the local topography, combined with landscaping, to improve your home's microclimate
- Designing to keep your home dry and warm in the winter, and cool in the summer
- Minimizing hidden environmental impacts
- Making the house safe and healthy, both emotionally and physically

The book includes several case studies of eco hoomes, reviewing (with hindsight) what worked well and what could have been better.

About the Author

Christopher Day has studied architecture and sculpture and has been committed to eco-architecture and an ecological lifestyle since the 1970s. He has received four design awards, including a Prince of Wales Award, for his work on eco-houses and Steiner schools. He pioneered a consensus design method, which has now been used in over 60 projects.

As a designer, consultant, lecturer or teacher, Christopher has worked in 20 different countries from California, USA to New Zealand, managing the construction of 150+ eco-homes across many income-levels cultures and climates. Continuing to work despite being disabled for the last fifteen years, Christopher has developed a further specialism in adapting environmentally friendly buildings for disabled residents.

Praise for The Eco-Home Design Guide: Principles and Practice for New-Build and Retrofit (Sustainable Building #8)

“This gentle book offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern construction. I was inspired.”  —Colin Amery, Financial Times, on Places of the Soul

“Presents ideas not only for a healthy planet but a healthy spirit—ultimately two conditions that are irrevocably linked. Day addresses the costs of building, from environmental pollution to social consequences such as crime and ill health. He looks at place and the unseen influences the environment imposes upon us, and he considers the past, both as a means to understanding the current condition of the planet and as a source for the wisdom we’ll need to design this new spiritually healthy earth.”  —Natural Homes Magazine on Spirit and Place

"The author certainly understands the basics of ecological design and construction and does a good job of introducing you to most of the issues involved and choices that need to be made." —Kelly Hart, naturalbuildingblog.com

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