Greening AsiaEmerging Principles of Sustainable Architecture epub reader

The central argument of this book is that despite the current trend to embrace Green an urgent rethink is needed in the way that Asia builds The hard truth about Green buildings today is they are products of fragmented and cautious approach They not do enough to mitigate impact nor do the conventions of Greening address the diverse needs of the region and its people Asia must get past the current do less harm market driven approach towards truly sustainable outcomes Greening Emerging Principles of Sustainable Architecture reports on over 30 recent projects in Asia that go beyond Green The author an educator architect and Green building expert extracts from them six principles for sustainable design that are Asia centric and scalable In the first one third of the book the optimism regarding the Green building movement in Asia is questioned against facts on the region s rising consumption and worsening environmental track record Arising from this critique and an examination of what is defined as a Green building today 6 principles are proposed as a way of moving the industry towards sustainable development These are illustrated with nineteen projects in Asia In the following two thirds of the book another twelve in depth case studies are featured to illustrate how these six principles might be integrated at the drawing board and what this might mean to performance Many of these projects are by well known and forward thinking designers such as Woha Singapore Morphogenisis India and Stephen Holl USA They illustrate different building typologies policy agendas and socio economic constraints This publication has 334 pages with over 200 drawings and 330 photographs projects featured are from Bangladesh China India Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand and Vietnam Greening AsiaEmerging Principles of Sustainable ArchitectureBuku bagus untuk memahami perbedaan antara bangunan Hijau dan berkelanjutan. Greening AsiaEmerging Principles of Sustainable Architecture books Seharusnya dikatakan bahwa hijau menurut definisinya tidaklah sama dengan berkelanjutan Hijau adalah suatu ukuran relatif sebuah argumen untuk melakukan hal yang lebih sedikit merugikan Sebuah bangunan dipandang Hijau jika menyerap atau membuang kurang dari tolok ukur yang telah ditentukan sebelumnya Keberlanjutan lebih sulit diukur Tidak ada indikator sederhana yang menyimpulkan maksud berkelanjutan dalam bangunan Menjadi berkelanjutan berarti hidup dalam daya dukung planet kita tidak menyerap atau membuang lebih cepat dari apa yang dapat digantikan atau diperbaiki secara alami Dengan kata lain tidak melakukan sesuatu yang merugikan Greening AsiaEmerging Principles of Sustainable Architecture this is one of the few books that talks about sustainability holistically it outline the various aspects involved with sustainabilityelucidating the differences between greening and sustainabilityeverything has been explained well and with sample projectsi would definitely recommend this book Greening AsiaEmerging Principles of Sustainable Architecture