#Materials + Comfort
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environmental sustainable design<br />
materials -general
Materials<br />
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Materials<br />
• Properties<br />
• Processes<br />
• Context<br />
• Qualities<br />
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Materials<br />
• Water Harvesting<br />
• Energy Generating<br />
• Self-Cleaning<br />
• High Performance<br />
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Materials<br />
• Context<br />
– Climate Type<br />
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Materials<br />
• Ethics<br />
– Think Globally<br />
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Materials<br />
• I will design unsustainably,<br />
• I will use enormous energy to<br />
heat and cool this poorly<br />
designed cavernous space, I<br />
will run my business in an<br />
unsustainable manner,<br />
• I will use and abuse every<br />
resource I can find now, and<br />
care nothing for the long term<br />
consequences of my actions.<br />
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Materials<br />
• The effect of materials is<br />
discerned by all the senses<br />
• Visual - sight<br />
• Tactile - touch<br />
• Thermal - feeling<br />
• Auditory - hearing<br />
• Olfactory - smell.<br />
The Five Senses by Hans Makart (image from the Belvedere Museum)<br />
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Materials<br />
• Surface Perception<br />
• Sight is based on transmitted rays. The<br />
corresponding material property is the<br />
reflection of rays from the surface of the<br />
material. The light striking a material plays<br />
a key part in visual perception.<br />
• glossy<br />
• matte<br />
• light<br />
• dark<br />
• homogeneous<br />
• textured<br />
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Materials<br />
• Colour<br />
• Scale<br />
• Association<br />
The Five Senses by Hans Makart (image from the Belvedere Museum)<br />
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Materials<br />
• Tactility<br />
• rough<br />
• smooth<br />
• dull<br />
• hard<br />
• soft<br />
• warm<br />
• cold<br />
Michelangelo - Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1508-1512)<br />
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Materials<br />
• thermal<br />
perception,<br />
– Air Speed<br />
– Air<br />
Temperature<br />
– Radiation<br />
from<br />
adjacent<br />
surfaces<br />
– Air Humidity<br />
could be, but it isn't a scene from Predator, (1987) :-)<br />
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Materials<br />
• Acoustic Quality<br />
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Materials<br />
• Acoustic <strong>Comfort</strong><br />
– Residential<br />
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Materials<br />
• Acoustic <strong>Comfort</strong><br />
– Commercial<br />
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Materials<br />
• thermal comfort<br />
– residential<br />
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Materials<br />
• thermal<br />
comfort<br />
– commercial<br />
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Materials<br />
• visual comfort<br />
– residential<br />
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Materials<br />
• visual comfort<br />
– commercial<br />
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