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Author: Mary Guzowski
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Date Published: 2010 Size: 224mm x 287mm x 25mm Pages: 208 Format: Hardback Available From: Amazon, Book Depository Publication Quality: Hardback cover, gloss paper, glue binding, high resolution colour photos and diagrams. |
Towards Zero Energy Architecture’s (TZEA) primary audience is those with a personal or professional interest in contemporary zero-impact / passive architecture, renewable energy technology, and sustainable building techniques. In addition, TZEA can also be of value to readers involved in the fields of contemporary art, graphic design, photography and woodworking. TZEA's adaptive nature is due to the publication's quality production and layout, and the artistic merits of its featured building projects .
TZEA was developed by Mary Guzowski in an attempt to address a growing issue in traditional architecture and building design. This issue is that current buildings methods are resource intensive, wasteful, and harmful to a now fragile echo system. To introduce and promote possible solutions to this issue, Mary Guzowski presented within TZEA a set of ten architecture case studies, which include private residences, housing estates, and office buildings projects sourced from different nations. These case studies are used by TZEA as a means to discuss and promote the sustainable, low energy design concepts and technology used in their construction, or at least to promote further interest and research in these subjects
As TZEA was released in 2010, some of the technology and construction techniques featured within the case studies may be dated. However, the publication’s founding objectives and purpose remain relevant if not more important.
TZEA’s content has been arranged into five categories, with two architecture projects per category. Mary Guzowski has provided a content page and a detailed index to assist with locating specific information within TZEA. A full bibliography has also been provided with the index for additional reading on the case studies’ various subjects. The main subjects discussed throughout TZEA, and shared between the chosen architecture case studies, include the importance of a defined purpose and creative thinking for innovative architectural design, the influence of the surrounding environment in the design of passive low impact architecture, the prudent use of resources and materials for a building project, and the importance of a building’s comfort and aesthetics.
For each of the individual case studies TZEA covers a broad range of design topics, including a building’s design goals and reasoning behind its development, an overview of the landscape and climate chosen for the building project (and the requirements this places on the building to achieve a low / zero impact rating), the building’s electrical systems, how the building’s architecture and development has met the architect’s design goals, and how the building’s achievements can be of use to future projects.
The information provided within TZEA’s case studies is supported with detailed architectural diagrams, and a variety of charts depicting the chosen landscapes’ yearly weather patterns. Large high quality photos are also used throughout the case studies. The information presented by TZEA is of a primary nature, sourced from the projects’ notes and industry research materials. The information is factual, precise, and appears void of opinionated or emotive language. Mary Guzowski has covered each of the project case studies in detail, and allowed the projects to promote themselves through their environmental and financial benefits, design aesthetics, and innovation.
As TZEA was released in 2010, some of the technology and construction techniques featured within the case studies may be dated. However, the publication’s founding objectives and purpose remain relevant if not more important.
TZEA’s content has been arranged into five categories, with two architecture projects per category. Mary Guzowski has provided a content page and a detailed index to assist with locating specific information within TZEA. A full bibliography has also been provided with the index for additional reading on the case studies’ various subjects. The main subjects discussed throughout TZEA, and shared between the chosen architecture case studies, include the importance of a defined purpose and creative thinking for innovative architectural design, the influence of the surrounding environment in the design of passive low impact architecture, the prudent use of resources and materials for a building project, and the importance of a building’s comfort and aesthetics.
For each of the individual case studies TZEA covers a broad range of design topics, including a building’s design goals and reasoning behind its development, an overview of the landscape and climate chosen for the building project (and the requirements this places on the building to achieve a low / zero impact rating), the building’s electrical systems, how the building’s architecture and development has met the architect’s design goals, and how the building’s achievements can be of use to future projects.
The information provided within TZEA’s case studies is supported with detailed architectural diagrams, and a variety of charts depicting the chosen landscapes’ yearly weather patterns. Large high quality photos are also used throughout the case studies. The information presented by TZEA is of a primary nature, sourced from the projects’ notes and industry research materials. The information is factual, precise, and appears void of opinionated or emotive language. Mary Guzowski has covered each of the project case studies in detail, and allowed the projects to promote themselves through their environmental and financial benefits, design aesthetics, and innovation.
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