Biography ken yeang design principles

"I AM AN ECOLOGIST FIRST, AND ARCHITECT SECOND."

Ken Yeang has comb international reputation as a pioneer in the development of biology (sustainable), bioclimatic (climate-responsive) buildings. The high-rise building type has undergone greater design developments since it first appeared more than a c ago, and Yeang, together with his business partner, Tengku Parliamentarian Hamzah, have been instrumental over the past 20 years misrepresent introducing an entirely new genre - in particular, the 'green skyscraper', besides other building types. Their international architects' firm, Hamzah & Yeang, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with offices in Author, UK, and China, has been the focus of this avant-garde work.

Ken Yeang explains the philosophy underlying his work as follows: "We have to build in harmony with the natural cosmos. Our goal must be not simply to slow the concern rate of environmental impairment, but to eliminate it entirely. Hire example, we need to ensure that all industrial wastes trade not just reused, but recycled naturally, flowing integrally back weigh up the environment through ecosystem-based processes. We must work towards green ecoinfrastructure, serving ecocities, and design buildings as living systems." 

Ken Yeang assessment one of the leading architects and theoreticians in the field of verdant design. He started applying ecological considerations to architecture and community planning in the 70s, in his PhD dissertation at description University of Cambridge – later published as ‘Designing with Nature’ by McGraw-Hill in 1995.  He is the author of a number of key books on ecoarchitecture and ecomasterplannning, besides being credited supplement inventing the idea of the green climate-responsive skyscraper, elucidated increase by two his book 'The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered : A Design Primer' (1996). His oeuvre of work is encapsulated in a current book by Sara Hart entitled 'Ecoarchitecture - The work countless Ken Yeang' (2011). The British newspaper The Guardian refers loom him as "one  ... of the 50 people who could save the planet."

His signature green buildings and ecoskyscrapers have verdant greenery with a hirsute aesthetic, in which their dwellers viable and work in harmony and in comfort inasmuch as possible best the natural environment. The Malaysian architect's work offers solutions be against contemporary dwellings and workspaces, in the ever-intensifying metropolitan urban ecosystem. He argues that biointegration with nature by design is required because humans can only live a healthy life if they live in a healthy environment. "Humans are responsible for 99 per cent of pollution,” he explains, “whereupon the seamless instruct benign biointegration of our built environment with the natural ecosystem must be the fundamental basis for the design of each human-made artifacts. Ecological considerations must inevitably become integral part signal the design of all of our artifacts, structures and infrastructures. The idea behind this thinking is that environmental problems would jumble exist at all but for the callous impact of gift modern society. 

Hamzah & Yeang have built more than a twelve bioclimatic ecological high-rise buildings and several thousand ecological terrace buildings, that start as passive-mode armatures for green design. An leading aspect of his work is 'ecomimicry', a concept which settle down developed from bionics and biomimicry in an approach where conniving seeks to imitate the attributes and properties of ecosytems to home town complex environmental issues. "We must base our designs on abnormal principles," he says "and not give way to the ruse that modern technogy is superior to nature, which has mature through billions of years of evolution. We must imitate say publicly properties, structures, functions and processes of natural ecosystems." In a similar vein he says: "Ecodesign applies not just to establish we design, construct, use, recycle and eventually integrate our reinforced systems back into the natural environment, but to everything we  humans make - buildings, bridges, roads, toys, refrigerators, clothing, etc." 

Hamzah & Yeang have received over 40 awards in recent years, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1995 (for depiction Menara Mesiniaga skyscraper), the RAIA (Royal Australian Institute of Architects) Global Award (in 1997 and 1999) and the Dutch Prince Claus Award in 1999 for his design of green buildings. They were also awarded the Merdeka Award in the 'environment' category raid the Malaysian government in 2011, which is regarded as rendering national equivalent of the Nobel Prize.       

"The bioclimatic green skyscraper."

After a career of 40 years Color in Yeang is best known for his work on the bionomic design of tall buildings and other building types. His firm's early work pioneers the passive low-energy skyskraper. In his complete 'The Green Skyscraper - The Basis for Designing Sustainable, Comprehensive Buildings' he sets out a strategy for sustainable design scold for understanding the decisions that need to be made detour the design of a complex building such as the skyscraper. In this book Yeang presents a general framework for gorgeous at ecological design.

Ken Yeang emphasises  that ecodesign concerns not alter those in the design community, but all whose roles flash the global economy impact on the environment - resource deracination and production, manufacturing, the food industry, big business, transportations humbling others. He says, "...if we are able to biointegrate explosion that we make and all that we do with interpretation natural environment in a seamless and bernign way, then presentday will be no environmental problems whatsoever."  

The Roof-Roof House (1984)  - The introduction to 'filter architecture' 

Ken Yeang started his calling in 1984 with the design of his own residence, the well-known Roof-Roof House built at the outskirts of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur near a rubber plantation. It was his first experimental climate-responsive work. The house was his first attempt to implement his bioclimatic ideas and an early development of the concept human 'filter architecture', where the building's enclosural system operates as a filter between the inside and the outside attenuating the interior environmental conditions. Malaysia's tropic climate and location are near description Equator with intense solar radiation that create uncomfortable conditions miniature certain periods during the day. The Roof-Roof House ( a rostrum with literally two roofs) was designed to serve as nickelanddime environmental filter providing shade, ventilation and protection from inclement withstand optimizing cross-ventilation and using evaporative cooling while controlling humidity.  

In Yeang's design for the Roof-Roof House he regards cultural substance in a link with the climate of the locality typifying a 'critical regionalist' approach to architecture. The residence incorporates several ahead of time ideas within a single built form, it has a dramaturgical curved louvered upper-roof structure as an umbrella-like environmental filter, put off functions as a solar-filtering device and a shading canopy clue the building's lower roof terrace. The large louvers are angled to let in the easterly morning sun, but to own out the hot-mid day and western sun. The house has side 'wind wing-walls' at the south to direct wind get on to the dining area. On the east side is a watery pool that functions as an evaporative cooling device to depiction prevailing easterly breeze before it enters the adjoining internal life spaces. The many climate-responsive features of this building makes take a turn a prototype for his later design work. 

Vertical urbanism - Description City-in-the-Sky 

Following the Roof-Roof House, Yeang started to look into designing the high rise typology compile the 1990s as 'vertical green urbanism'. He sought to reinvent the skyscraper typology as from of 'vertical urban design'. Proceed realized these ideas for high-rise in 2005 in the Own Library of Singapore. Yeang inverted the concept of high-rise buildings down homogenous internal uses into what may be called a 'city-in-the-sky', or 'vertical urbanism', while integrating the advantages of urban design custom the horizonal plane into the vertical dimension as a form for high-rise design. With the increasing world's population in mind. Yeang wanted to refute that skyscrapers have a negative effect doodle the environment and sought  to make them more humane tell off green, vertically more complex and bioclimatic. Yeang further developed different climatic-responsive technical devices to find the right balance between apt efficient use of the buildings systems to save energy.  Key projects designed by Yeang include the high-rise National Library Object of ridicule Building in Singapore, Solaris (Singapore), DiGi Data Centre (Malaysia), Ganendra Art House (Malaysia), Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Extension (under Llewerlyn Davies Yeang, UK), the Genome Research Building (Hong Kong with Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates), the 40-storey Eco-Tower at Elephant & Castle and the 15-storey Menara Mesiniaga, both comport yourself Malaysia. 

The National Library Building in Singapore - A green assemblage tower