Research Catalog

Title

Sunlighting as formgiver for architecture / William M.C. Lam.

Author

Lam, William M. C.

Publication

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1986.

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Details

Description

xv, 464 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Subject

• Architecture and solar radiation
• Daylighting

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 453-454.

Contents

• Part I. Principles. Design objectives: sunlighting for economy and delight -- The delightful, healthful, luminous environment -- Light and its control -- Sunlight: sources of light and heat for buildings -- Planning for sunlighting: concepts -- Sidelighting: strategies, techniques, devices, and forms -- Toplighting: strategies, techniques, devices, and forms -- Toplit shared central spaces: courts and atria, lightcourts, litria and lightwells -- Sunlighting building systems -- Sunlighting design processes and tools -- Sunlighting and architecture --
• Part II. Case studies. Group A: Urban design and site planning. A military academy in the Middle East ; A university in the Middle East -- Group B: Offices. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Connecticut, corporate headquarters (North Haven, Connecticut) ; Melvin C. Holm Center, carrier executive office building (Dewitt, New York) ; Government Service Insurance Systems headquarters (Manila, Philippines) ; Johnson Controls Inc. branch office building (Salt Lake City, Utah) ; World headquarters/Westinghouse steam turbine-generator division (Orlando, Florida) ; Denver Technological Center prototype building (Denver, Colorado) ; TVA Chattanooga office complex (Chattanooga, Tennessee) -- Group C: Schools. Soddy-Daisy High School (Soddy Daisy, Tennessee) ; Canfield Hall, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Training Center (Yorktown, Virginia) ; A university in the Middle East -- Group D: Museums. National Gallery of Canada, 1977 competition (Ottawa, Canada) ; Tarble Arts Center (Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois) ; Beaumont Art Museum (Beaumont, Texas) ; Knight Gallery (Charlotte, North Carolina) ; Musée National de las Civilisation (Quebec, Canada) ; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal (Montreal, Canada) ; Shen Zhen Museum (Shen Zhen, China) -- Group E: Industrial buildings. Consolidated Diesel (Case/Cummins) engine plant (Rocky Mount, North Carolina) -- Group F: Religious buildings. Central United Methodist Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) ; The Universel Chapel (Suresnes, France) -- Group G: Hotel atria. Atlanta Marriott Marquis (Atlanta, Georgia) ; Hyatt Regency Embarcadero (San Francisco, California) -- Group H: Libraries. University of Missouri Medical Library (Columbia, Missouri) --
• Appendix A: Self education exercises -- Appendix B: Data normalization procedures for daylight testing model program -- Appendix C: Programming -- Appendix D: Polar sundial.

ISBN

• 0442259417
• 9780442259419

LCCN

85011169

OCLC

• ocm12103115
• 12103115
• SCSB-649417

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library