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Maestro

April 26, 2007

What is the concept of a building envelope?

What is the concept of a building envelope?

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expert EXPERT April 26, 2007

The concept of a house as an environmental envelope is a helpful one. A home is an artificial environment surrounded by a huge natural environment. This is a problem because

  • we can't isolate ourselves from the natural environment or we'd have no fresh air to breathe.
  • we can't completely control the interaction between the indoor and outdoor environments.
This leakage of indoor air outside, and outdoor air into our homes is necessary and yet troublesome. A house is not a tightly sealed chamber isolated from the world outdoors, but a rather loose envelope between the indoor and outdoor environments.

As insulation strategies changed in the latter half of the 1900s, we recognized the need to control moisture (largely by controlling air movement).

 

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