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BOOK>  ARCHIITETTURE IN AMBIENTI ESTREMI. Il progetto Post-ambientale tra finizone e sperimentazione computazionale
Giuseppe Ridolfi

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Book containing the theoretical foundations of multi-agent and computational design with explanatory projects coming from the Environmental Design Courses at the Florence School of Architecture.

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BOOK> BIM IN SMALL SCALE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Francoise Levy

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A booklet providing a useful guide to small- and medium-sized firms that a commitment to undertake a transition to a Green BIM

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BOOK> SUN WIND & LIGHT
FMark Dekay, G.Z. Brown

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This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildingsbooklet providing a useful guide to small- and medium-sized firms that a commitment to undertake a transition to a Green BIM

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BOOK> GREEN AND SMART BUILDINGS. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS [excerpt]
Nilesh Y. Jadhav
An excerpt concerning BIM applied to energy simulation and Passive Design Strategies.

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A guide to an in-house energy design simulation to help make more sustainable design decisions.
Written by a practicing in the LMN Architects -Seattle, Washington, USA this software-agnostic book shows environmental aspects influencing architectures and how to approach them with smart tools. Examples are related to shading, daylighting, airflow and energy modeling applied in the early decision phase.

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A book focused on site planning process and the organization, analysis, and communication of information throughout the process. Tools, techniques and methods are widely explained with examples covering visual of spatial information; site inventory, analysis and selection; programming, design and project implementation,

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BOOK> INSULATING MODERNISM 
Moe Kiel
A For over a century, the building industry has largely focused on ideas of insulation and isolation for its energetic practices. A growing movement of designers claim that other concepts and practices are required for the non-isolated energy systems of architecture. This book describes the history, theory and facts of the mainstream isolation technologies and the emerging alternative design approaches. It is a book on the scientific, material, and design history of building isolation; but more importantly, it is a book on isolated and non-isolated perspectives on energy in architecture. The aim is to understand the different scientific, architectural and cultural approaches to energy and to promote a non-isolated perspective: a thermodynamically accurate, ecologically powerful, culturally relevant, and architecturally ambitious perspective on energy in architecture.implementation,

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A technical manual from the Californian CHPS (The Collaborative for High Performance Schools) containing design guidelines for high performance schools. These are tailored for California climates and are written for the architects and engineers who are responsible for designing schools as well as the project managers who work with the design teams. Volume II is organized by design disciplines and addresses specific design strategies for high performance schools.
MAGAZINE ISSUE> CLADDING, HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY 
Irene Paoletti et alii
A collection of articles on evolution, role and technological devices of cladding. Different paradigmatic architectures from history to the Contemporary  are analyzed showing passive approach and high energy solutions.
RESEARCH REPORT> BEST PRACTICE FOR DOUBLE SKIN FAÇADE
Wolfang Streicher (ed.)
The first report of a European research concerning the state of art of double skins facades. The report contains analysis on architectural aspects,  case studies, technical descriptions, and standard protocols of information based on selected case studies.
A selection of resources collected and accessible  in Ridolfi’s ISSUU Stack