Nick Baker - Healthy Homes: Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing

We would like to thank The VELUX Group Knowledge Centre for Daylight, Energy and Indoor Climate for organising a series of expert workshops and report that provided the early stimulus for this book. We are grateful for their support and advice, and for access to their photographic library. We would also like to thank the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, for financial support.

We thank Ben Channon architect, writer and illustrator for his engaging illustrations and the trouble he has taken to faithfully convey the technical sense of our hastily scribbled drafts.

Particular gratitude goes to Ginny Mills commissioning editor of RIBA Publishing for her expert advice and patient guidance during the preparation of this book.

Finally, in relation to the Care Home scenario in , we would like to thank Michael Parmenter for helpful discussions, and allowing the author access to the care home that he manages.

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Chapter 2 is based in part on the following paper and re-appropriated here with the kind permission of the journal: Steemers, K. (2015). Architecture for well-being and health, Daylight & Architecture, Spring 2015, Issue 23, 6-27.

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