Passive Design Strategies to Adapt to Heat Waves

Combining historical insights with modern advancements, Passive Design Strategies to Adapt to Heat Waves: Thermal Comfort, Energy Efficiency, and Building Resilience offers a comprehensive guide to passive design techniques tailored to various climate zones. Aimed at architects, engineers, researchers, and students, it bridges the gap between theory and application, providing real-world case studies and simulation methodologies. With a focus on reducing energy consumption and supporting global sustainability goals, it delivers actionable solutions for creating adaptive, energy-efficient buildings worldwide.

• Explores passive design techniques tailored to diverse climates, including hot and dry, hot and humid, Mediterranean, temperate, and continental regions.
• Integrates historical architectural with modern energy-efficient design, supported by real-world case studies and simulation methodologies.
• Emphasizes reducing energy consumption, enhancing thermal comfort, and building resilience to improve sustainability.