Comfort and Perception in Architecture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • J. Alstan Jakubiec

   Pages 1-7

3. History of Thermal Comfort Standards

   • J. Alstan Jakubiec

   Pages 9-46

4. History of Visual Comfort Standards

   • J. Alstan Jakubiec

   Pages 47-77

5. Performance-Driven Design Workflows

   • J. Alstan Jakubiec

   Pages 79-105

6. Comfort in Design and Design Education

   • J. Alstan Jakubiec

   Pages 107-114

This book discusses the design of comfortable buildings and shows that design perception and, as a result, comfort should be an intentional feature of architectural design. Modern buildings are often sealed boxes without operable windows or daylighting design. However, contemporary designers increasingly find themselves faced with the task of creating spaces that are comfortable in terms of thermal and visual aspects.

• Building design codification
• Comfortable buildings
• Daylighting controls
• Environmental controls
• Operational energy use
• Urban sustainable metrices
• Visual comfort

• John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, School of the Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  J. Alstan Jakubiec

Dr. Alstan Jakubiec is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto where he focuses his efforts on the design of buildings and cities with emphases on human comfort, performance simulation, and low-energy design strategies. He believes that through data-driven processes, designers can create comfortable built environments that will support social interaction, require less energy, and last longer before being razed. Alstan co-created the popular DIVA tool for calculating the daylighting and energy performance of buildings and cities and actively develops new software tools as part of his research.

Before joining the University of Toronto, Alstan taught sustainable design to the first four graduating classes at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He also co-founded Mapdwell, a technology company dedicated to providing information to homeowners about the renewable energy potential of their rooftops. Alstan holds Bachelor’s (Georgia Tech) and Master’s (University of Pennsylvania) degrees in architecture and a PhD in Building Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Policies and ethics