THE OWNER BUILT HOME & HOMESTEAD
(Page 10 of 15)
January/February 1971
By Ken Kern
Throughout the humid, the arid, and the temperate regions of the world, these, and many more, independent investigators are making their efforts known to all who will but take the trouble to search them out. Though most of their research is still in its experimental stages, enough can be learned by the individual home builder to be of great assistance in planning a more economical and comfortable home.
RELATED CONTENT
In effect, this new science of Building Climatology is directed toward the control of climate. The term "Climate Control" is often seen in the literature on this subject. This control is manipulated in two ways; through constructional means and with artificial aids. Cooling by evaporation of water or by fans, and warming by heaters and fireplaces are "artificial" features which are a part of the building, and items of basic equipment which do not call for the consumption of fuel or power, are considered "constructional." (Both methods of control will be discussed in the next two chapters—Cooling and Heating.) From a practical, economic, or esthetic point of view, I feel that it makes much more sense to develop constructional features for warming or cooling the owner-built home.
As a general summary of basic constructional considerations, I have presented in this chapter a model plan for each of the three climatic regions in the United States.
*A similar temperature index, called Sol-Air, has more recently been used by air conditioning engineers. Sol-Air temperature depends upon the solar orientation of the surface, its absorptivity to solar radiation (and to low temperature radiation), the intensity of solar radiation (and low temperature radiation), as well as air temperatures and the surface.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (books listed in order of importance)
House Beautiful; Climate Control Project, Bulletin Institute of Architects, March, 1950
Physiological Objectives in Hot Weather Housing; Douglas Lee, Housing and Home Finance Agency
Weather and the Building Industry; Building Research Advisory Board, Conference Report No. 1, Washington, D.C., 1950
Application of Climatic Data to House Design; Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., 1954
Symposium on Design for Tropical Living; South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Durban, 1957
Climate and Architecture; J. E. Aronin
The Weather Conditioned House; G. Conklin
Climate and House Design; J. W. Drysdale, Commonwealth Experiment Building Station, Australia, 1945-48
THE OWNER-BUILT HOME, BOOK ONE, CHAPTER 7
CENTRAL HEATING
"How are you going to heat it?" This is the question most often asked at the first stages of owner-builder planning. Pertinently so, as the type of heating has a major effect on room location and window placement, as well as general house design and orientation layout. To answer this question most people have no more information than the half-truths offered by heating appliance salesmen, heating contractors and fuel distributors.
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