"But Connecticut was paying up to $5 a watt for investments in energy efficiency," he continued, and a landed system, with greater exposure to sun than the partly shaded roof, though twice the price, offered twice the efficiency.
Niemeyer swiftly learned to design according to Le Corbusier's five principles: full-width strip windows; rigid sun shading; roof gardens; pilotis (columns raising a building above the ground); and, most important of all, free-forming plans within a grid of columns.
It may be built in an urban environment with other buildings around it that shade its roof and walls.
And you can cut air-conditioning costs in half by plantings (bushes, high-canopy trees, vines on trellises) and wooden screens that shade the roof and sunniest walls of the house and the air-conditioners.
Under closed loop operation, the controller automatically readjusts the operating status and rate of different climate control equipments (shade screen, roof vents, exhaust fan, cooling system and heating system) and simulates automatic control of GH-crop VPD within set limits irrespective of the variations in outside weather conditions.
For example, a neighbor of the Antonios' son wanted to install a system on his house in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, but could not because the city would not let him prune the tall trees shading his roof.
The four measures selected for uplifting the energy performance of the building envelope include glazing type, window-to-wall ratio, sun shading and roof strategies.
The danger is that the Vietnamese will turn their unique capital of tree-lined streets shading tile roofs into a second Bangkok--a forest of skyscrapers, a crawl of traffic, and an environmental catastrophe.
Or wandering down city streets, reading history in the shade of a roof, the frame of a door.
In the process, Dunescape provides slopes for sunning, eaves for shade, a cascading roof for running water, dips for pools and a cool, interior cave for changing clothes.
