9 Bioclimatic Designs - Low Carbon Materials Processing

Brokering the environmental design strategy
for the Queens Building: the final recipe of
thermal mass, structural form, relative cost
and time implications, free areas, internal
heat gains, comfort criteria, heating, passive
cooling, air flow, acoustic isolation,
absorption, natural light, solar gains, plan and
section geometry, sight lines…exercising this
panoramic judgement and leadership should
be once again the Architects’ contribution, but
they should be educated beyond the GP level
to perform it.