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The Collaborative Building: Mediating Between Climate and Interior Quality
Abstract Collaborative environments can be understood to be “enabling” environments, which enable individuals and organizations to be creative and productive. Buildings can be seen to operate as enabling environments at different yet inter-related levels: 1) as mediator between outdoor and indoor environments; 2) as provider of appropriate indoor physical settings; 3) as host to information technology for an organization. This paper focuses on the first level, and describes a range of architectural alternatives for improved indoor environments in commercial buildings. The paper uses illustrative examples of high-performance buildings in the U.S. and Europe, contrasting their respective approaches to the integration of enclosure, mechanical, and lighting systems.
The Collaborative Building: Mediating Between Climate and Interior Quality
Abstract Collaborative environments can be understood to be “enabling” environments, which enable individuals and organizations to be creative and productive. Buildings can be seen to operate as enabling environments at different yet inter-related levels: 1) as mediator between outdoor and indoor environments; 2) as provider of appropriate indoor physical settings; 3) as host to information technology for an organization. This paper focuses on the first level, and describes a range of architectural alternatives for improved indoor environments in commercial buildings. The paper uses illustrative examples of high-performance buildings in the U.S. and Europe, contrasting their respective approaches to the integration of enclosure, mechanical, and lighting systems.
The Collaborative Building: Mediating Between Climate and Interior Quality
Loftness, Vivian (author) / Hartkopf, Volker (author) / Lee, Stephen (author) / Mahdavi, Ardeshir (author) / Mathew, Paul (author) / Shankavaram, Jaykrishna (author) / Aziz, Azizan (author)
1999-01-01
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
cooperative buildings , architecture , interior quality , energy effectiveness , environmental sustainability Computer Science , User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction , Building Types and Functions , Office Management , Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems , Management of Computing and Information Systems , Computers and Society
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