Model Illustrating Sustainable Architectural Design.

WORD COUNT: 21,000 words – 210 pages (Size A4) including many images and links to videos.

BACKGROUND:

This book started with a simple first model created in a secondary school Design and Visual Communication (DVC) classroom. The objective was to use a model to illustrate and teach the basic concepts and principles of sustainable architecture in High School. A Fellowship was awarded to the DVC teacher for 6 months exploring, investigating and researching sustainable architecture. During this time, the teacher learned much about this subject area and the idea of creating a model to illustrate and explain sustainable architectural design and practice was born. During the six months of study leave – away from work – a model was created which could be used in the classroom. The teacher is a model aircraft enthusiast who flies several models, including a jet, fixed-wing planes and gliders.  As expected, the teacher included the remote control (RC) concepts and components into the sustainable architecture model design to provide remote control capabilities for the model. The louvres could move up and down, and the top roof (clerestory) could open. This was included to illustrate the screening of the sun (passive solar design) and passive ventilation.

Using a model (with movement) to illustrate, teach, and explain Sustainable Architectural Design. Model is showing Sustainable Architectural features and functions. Includes moving louvres, led lights, green roof, photovoltaic panels, solar thermal panel, exterior water tanks, ceramic floor (passive solar design), small wind turbine, large glass window, interior water tank, 12 Volt (DC) battery, inverter, and more. Remote control movement (RC planes concept and system), construction details, measuring possibilities, links to videos of the model, videos of related concepts like solar toys, bio-mimetics in architectural design, many images of highlight and concepts and ideas on sustainability, and more.

READING AUDIENCE: Teachers, educators, architects, and student of all ages. Specific for those interested in sustainable architectural design. Design and Visual Communication teachers teaching sustainable architecture. Primary school teachers will find the book very informative – the perfect book to increase knowledge of sustainable architecture(features and functions). Primary school teachers will be able to implement many of the concepts into lesson plans on sustainability. The book will provide content for teaching lessons like ‘Sustainable homes and buildings: How can we make a difference today?’ For example, why not develop a lesson series on a sustainable architectural design! So cool. Build models and mock-ups with students. They will love it! Include working led lights, small photovoltaic panels, batteries, and more. In other words, make the model or mockup work with real components! Place it in the sun and collect some real scientific data, and create graphs (Science &Maths). Could be used for a STEM project-based learning. STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths).

Genre: Non-fiction (Sustainable Architecture, Science, Architectural design, Design and Visual Communication, Science, Technology)

KEYWORDS/PHRASES: Model, Sustainable Architecture, harvesting energy from the sun, harvesting energy from the wind, collecting rainwater, passive solar design, passive solar ventilation, led lights, green roofs, louvers, clerestory, heatsink, thermal mass, water tanks, geothermal, geofoam (insulation), deciduous trees, deciduous landscaping, inverter, 12 Volt batteries