Sustainable Architecture - Sustainable Sleep-out Design Brief Series

BOOK DETAILS: Volume 1 : 222 pages in total. 20,000 words in total. Volume 2 - second book (not included in this book) This book was written with the intent to assist teachers, parents, caregivers, students, architects, designers, and those who are interested in Education for Sustainability, Environmental Education, Eco Education, Sustainable Architecture, and Design and Visual Communication. Sustainable architectural solutions are the focus. Different sustainable sleepout solutions are discussed and illustrated. The sleepout briefs and the solutions by 16-year-old students are: The Egg Sleepout (egg-shaped, floating sleepout) The Shipping Container Sleepout. (Constructed by using 3 x shipping containers. The Armadillo and Onion Inspired Sleepout (focus on the biomimetic principles of the onion and the armadillo). Based on a Design and Visual Communication book by the author. Included free in this book. BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR AND THE BOOK As a practising Design and Visual Communication teacher, who has also practised Technical Drawing, 'Ingenieur's Grafika' (Afrikaans), and Graphics, for the past 22 years, the author wanted to give back to students and teachers.  He has studied extensively over the past 15 to 20 years (education). He is qualified in Design and Visual Communication, Education for Sustainability, Technology Education, Innovations for  STEM (Science, Technology, Environment, and Mathematics), Gifted and Talented, Research Methods and eventually completed a Master's degree in Open Education, Global development Education, Peer-to-Peer collaboration (P2P), Peer Learning (PL), Peer Assisted Learning(PAL), and Peer-to-Peer Learning Technologies. The author has secondary school teaching experience of over 22 years in Technology Education.  The benefits for reading this book is that the contents focus on informing the reader about sustainable architectural practice, and then continues to give practical examples of how a typical sustainable design brief could be structured and planned. As mentioned, three different sleepouts are included to provide depth to the sustainable features and functions considered for each design brief. Several resources are included in the appendices for the reader. The author produced a systematic solution to the design briefs with a range of media and techniques, which the reader will find valuable. The resources include freehand sketches, illustrations, screenshots, drawings, Sketch-up design work, annotations, and YouTube video clips produced by the author specifically for these design brief. The resources will provide a solid starting point for readers either to attempt their own sustainable design projects or to teach sustainable architectural design. Armadillo and Onion inspired design brief is included: After touching on the first two sustainable sleepout briefs, the author includes the solution to an armadillo and onion inspires sleepout towards the end. The intention is to develop the sleepout design brief to include creativity and innovation for students. This section is taken from a book by the author namely, 'Armadillo and Onion inspired sleep-out design brief: Research, climate, weather, ideation and freehand sketching- Sustainable Architecture.' For more details go to https://fivehousepublishing.com/

Preface This book is about Design and Visual Communication for secondary school students and teachers. The book consists of 2 volumes. It is also beneficial for primary school teachers and students who are interested in sustainable architecture. Designers and architects could also find it an interesting read. The software Google Sketch-up, discussed and illustrated in this book, is very user-friendly. The computer-aided drawing program - Sketch-up - is freeware, which can be downloaded from the Internet. The program is straightforward to use; very young kids, like primary school students, secondary school students, can use it. It is a great design program and many tertiary students, as well as professional architects and designers, make use of it. Included in the brief is general research (inspiration board, design eras & influential architects), and design activities that include possible solutions to a sustainable architectural design brief. Extensive content is included on freehand sketches, Sketch-Up computer-aided drawings, elevations, site plans, diagrams, screenshots, biomimetics, assessments, and more. The assessment of the building site is presented, including weather and climate factors. Additionally, the author has included links to his YouTube videos (model/movement). These videos were specifically included to assist the solution to sustainable architectural briefs. Links to published academic work by the author, and much more, are included. See Five House Publishing for more details. Exemplars of secondary school student work (sixteen-year-olds) from a New Zealand Secondary School context are included. Keywords & Key Phrases: design and visual communication, 16-year-olds, sleep-out, sustainable architecture, sustainable features & functions, secondary school, sleepout, shipping containers sleep-out, armadillo and onion inspired, biomimetics, ask nature how, passive solar design, the living classroom, model, movement, illustrate sustainable function, design eras, modernism, influential designers, modernist architects, generating design ideas, ideation, freehand sketching, ideation, Sketch-Up, computer-aided software, shadows and shading, passive solar, passive ventilation, clerestory, site assessment, weather, climate, harvesting energy from the sun, harvesting energy from the wind, collecting rainwater, location, retrofitting, creativity, innovation, thermal mass, heatsink, animal architecture, New Zealand Excerpt - CHAPTER 19: Model building to illustrate sustainable architectural principles. NEW MODEL SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE:  The picture below shows the model built by the author during his New Zealand Govt/Ministry/Royal Society Fellowship at Waikato University in 2012....  Volume 2: 14,900 words with images, sketches, diagrams, references, and video links, and more. 173 size A4 pages.