An Overview of the Cyclic Process from Sensation to Adaptive Behaviour: Interaction between body proper, brain and built environment

摘要

Built-environmental thermal conditioning can be made bytwo distinctively characterized means of technology: one is socalled“passive” technology and the other “active” technology.The former is to prepare thermally-well insulated buildingenvelopes and thereby put appropriate openings such aswindows, vents and doors so that a variety of immediate naturalresources such as solar radiation, wind, and others can beutilized for lighting, heating, cooling and ventilating indoors.The latter is to exploit fossil fuels to produce “heat” and then“work” with mechanical and electrical devices at the supplysites and deliver either of them or both of them to the demandsites for running a variety of indoor environmental conditioningsystems. The wording “active” comes from “work”.