Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings
An interational movement is developing to design houses that are home-y and also tiny.
An interational movement is developing to design houses that are home-y and also tiny.
There is a preferred ratio between solid areas and voids (doors and windows).
There is a new report on daylight in residential environments. This review is comprehensive and addresses a range of useful topics.
Recent research receiving a lot of press attention can reasonably be expected to change the Western concept of “a good night’s sleep” in ways that influence how Westerners use their homes during the evening hours.
Beale reports on a new design option from Del Webb, which builds communities for people 55 and older – snore rooms.
The Daylighting Cooperative has enhanced their website (http://www.daylighting.org/).
The National Building Museum, in Washington, DC, will soon open an exhibit profiling American homes.
Thompson led a research effort investigating the relationship between green space on well-being in deprived communities in Scotland.
Although research recently conducted at Cornell and London Metropolitan University relates to adult’s and children’s plates, it ultimately may be shown to have repercussions for a broad range of design decisions - such as color use in healthcare facilities where eating needs to be encouraged (e.g., anorexia treatment facilities) – particularly when adults are designing these sorts of spaces for child users.
At Home details how the way that we live in our homes has evolved through time.