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# Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture Hardcover – April 1, 2010

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## Customer Reviews

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    Mindblowing
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2012*

For several years I have been studying and attempting to practice sustainable building.Perhaps most useful was Lechner's "Heating, Cooling, Lighting". All the time feeling something missing - until I happened on this book at ArchDaily.com. No-one else had made the distinction between radiant and convective energy transfer - both physiologically and in building, nor suggested that air is a most irrational material for energy transfer, water being 832 times denser. Add to that functional separation of fresh air supply from temperature control and we have a revolutionary new approach to architecture, from foundation to finish, as illustrated by outstanding examples. This is of particular relevance to building in our (Israel) semi-arid climate where in most parts the daily temperature differential is too small for effective night time cooling by accelerated air flow. This book is a must for every architect.

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*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016*

Bought this for my son-in-law and he was very happy with it

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    An important and pathbreaking book
  

*by R***P on Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2010*

This is an important book. which opens a path for some major rethinking of energy and comfort in buildings, and for significant new architecture. And it does so with striking visual presentation and telling metaphors. The standard paradigm for thermal comfort in a building--heating, cooling and circulating air--has been largely unquestioned for two generations or more. Kiel Moe shows the potential for a strikingly different approach, thermally active surfaces, based on recent pathbreaking European engineering (but also on neglected practices from ancient Rome and Korea). The book does an excellent job of bringing forward finished European and North American buildings which embody this approach, together with imaginative comparative diagrams which show their departures from mid-Twentieth Century practices but also their alignment with good older industrial-era buildings.  Building this way may allow major steps forward in saving energy and using sustainable materials. The book also does quite a reasonable job of translating engineering technicalities into lay terms.  Some will resist its message, because it asks practitioners and rule-of-thumb people to take a great deal of new thinking on board.  But Moe has brought together the technical aspects, the core metaphors, and the actually built examples of the new approach in a way that is inspiring. The substance is here, as well as the excitement, and the book deserves close attention.

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