This book is a how-to manual for designing sustainable residences for human wellness. While the commercial market has embraced these principles, the residential market lags behind.
Residential designers work much more intimately with clients and are attuned to specific and individual needs. This book enhances that approach by also supporting them in making sustainable choices throughout the design process and providing the resources to make this an integrated part of the design process form start to completion. Case studies such as those from CIRCLE Design Studio and architect, Ken Wilson of Perkins&Will are used to demonstrate the application of principles. This book takes an inclusive view of wellness, providing information on Universal Design, the importance of designing for all people and abilities, including older occupants for ageing in place.
Including information on residential programming, space planning, materials, building systems, energy and water efficiency, this will be a helpful and complete guidebook for all residential designers and students of residential interior design and architecture.
This book is a how-to manual for designing sustainable residences for human wellness. While the commercial market has embraced these principles, the residential market lags behind.
1. Introduction
2. Background Context
3. History of Single-Family Homes
in the US
4. Design Basics: Principles of Design Excellence
5. Design Basics:
Residential Programming
6. Design Basics: Residential Space Planning Process
7. Residential Materials
8. Buildings Systems, Energy Efficiency, and Water
9. Specializations: Universal Design, Aging in Place, Adaptive Reuse
Lisa M. Tucker is a Professor and Director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Virginia. She is a LEED BD + C and WELL accredited professional. Dr. Tucker is a registered architect and certified interior designer and holds degrees in Architecture and Architectural History from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri in Human Environmental Sciences. Dr. Tucker, honored as the 2016 IIDA Educator of the Year, has been identified by Design Intelligence as a Most Admired Design Educators in 2010, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She received the Nancy McClelland Award, the Polsky Prize (2015) and is an ASID Educator Medallist. She is a Fellow of IIDA, ASID and IDEC.
