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Summary
Summary
Saving the environment from continued devastation by our built environment is the single most important issue for our tomorrow, feeding into our post-millennial fears that this third millennium will indeed be our last.
Ken Yeang reconstructs and revisions how and why our current design approach and perception of architecture must radically change if we are to ensure a sustainable future. He argues forcefully that this can only be achieved by adopting the environmentalist's view that, aesthetics apart, regards our environment simply as an assembly of materials (mostly transported over long distances), that are transciently concentrated on to a single locality and used for living, working and leisure whose footprints affect that locality's ecology and whose eventual disposal has to be accommodated somewhere in the biosphere.
This manual offers clear instructions to designers on how to design, build and use a green sustainable architecture. The aim is to produce and maintain ecosystem-like structures and systems whose content and outputs not only integrate benignly with the natural environment, but whose built form and systems function with sensitivity to the locality's ecology as well in relation to global biospheric processes, and contribute positively to biodiversity (as opposed to reducing it). The goal is structures and systems that are low consumers of non-renewable resources, built with materials that have low ecological consequences and are designed to facilitate disassembly, continuous reuse and recycling a (a cyclic process that mimics the way ecosystems recycle materials), and that at the end of their useful lives can be reintegrated seamlessly back into the natural environment. Each of these aspects (and other attendant ones) is examined in detail with regards to how they influence design and planning.
Ecodesign provides designers with a comprehensive set of strategies for approaching ecological design and planning combined with in-depth analysis and research material not found elsewhere.
Author Notes
Ken Yeang is the distinguished Plym Professor at the University of Illinois and Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya and University of Hawaii (at Manoa)
Table of Contents
0 Preface | p. 016 |
Chapter A General Premises and Strategies | p. 020 |
A1 What is ecodesign?: Designing the biointegration of artificial-systems-to-natural-systems | p. 022 |
A2 The objective of ecodesign: Design for benign and seamless environmental integration | p. 025 |
A3 The basis for ecodesign: The ecosystem concept | p. 030 |
A4 Ecomimicry: Designing based on the ecosystem analogy | p. 045 |
A5 The general law and theoretical basis for ecodesign: The system-to-environment Interactions Matrix | p. 059 |
Chapter B Design Instructions | p. 074 |
B1 Interrogate the premises for the design: Deciding to build, to manufacture or not | p. 076 |
B2 Differentiate whether the design is for a product (with no fixed abode or with a temporary abode) or for a structure or an infrastructure (both abode or site specific): Determining the strategy towards the useful lifespan and the site specificity and fixation of the designed system | p. 088 |
B3 Determine the level of environmental integration that can be achieved in the design: Establishing specific practical limitations | p. 093 |
B4 Evaluate the ecological history of the site (for the designed system): Site selection and establishing the overall site strategy | p. 098 |
B5 Inventory the designed system's ecosystem (site-specific design): Establishing the ecological baseline and context for planning and design to protect the ecosystems and to restore disturbed or degraded ecosystems | p. 107 |
B6 Delineate the designed system's boundary as a human-made or composite ecosystem in relation to the site's ecosystem: Establishing the general extent for ecosystem and biodiversity enhancement | p. 130 |
B7 Design to balance the biotic and abiotic components of the designed system: Integrating the designed system's inorganic mass vertically and horizontally with biomass and designing for the rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems | p. 133 |
B8 Design to improve existing, and to create new ecological linkages: Enhancing the biodiversity of the designed system, conserving existent continuities of ecosystems and creating new ecological corridors and links (eg using ecological land-bridges, hedgerows and enhancing horizontal integration) | p. 150 |
B9 Design to reduce the heat-island effect of the built environment on the ecology of the locality: Reducing and improving urban micro-climate impacts | p. 161 |
B10 Design to reduce the consequences of the various modes of transportation and of the provision of access and vehicular parking for the designed system | p. 167 |
B11 Design to integrate with the wider planning context and urban infrastructure of the design system | p. 178 |
B12 Design for improved internal comfort conditions (of the designed system as an enclosure): Designing the built system based on the progressive optimisation of modes (B13 to B17) | p. 184 |
B13 Design to optimise all passive-mode (or bioclimatic design) options in the designed system: Configuring the built form, its layout and plan, and designing for improved internal comfort conditions without the use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality | p. 191 |
B14 Design to optimise all mixed-mode options in the design system: Designing for improved internal comfort conditions with partial use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality | p. 229 |
B15 Design to optimise all full-mode options in the designed system: Designing for improved internal comfort conditions with minimal full use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality | p. 238 |
B16 Design to optimise productive-mode options in the designed system: Designing for improved comfort conditions by the independent production of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality | p. 244 |
B17 Design to optimise composite-mode options in the designed system: Designing for improved internal comfort conditions by composite means with low use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality | p. 251 |
B18 Design to internally integrate biomass with the designed system's inorganic mass (eg by means of internal landscaping, improved indoor air quality (IAQ) considerations, etc) | p. 254 |
B19 Design for water conservation, recycling, harvesting, etc: Conserving water resources | p. 262 |
B20 Design for wastewater and sewage treatment and recycling systems: Controlling and integrating human waste and other emissions | p. 272 |
B21 Design for food production and independence: Designing to promote urban agriculture and permaculture | p. 280 |
B22 Design the built system's use of materials to minimise waste based on the analogy with the recycling properties of the ecosystem: Designing for continuous reuse, recycling and eventual biointegration | p. 288 |
B23 Design for vertical integration: Designing for multilateral integration of the designed system with the ecosystems | p. 294 |
B24 Design to reduce light and noise pollution of the ecosystems | p. 298 |
B25 Designing the built environment as the transient management of materials and energy input flows: Assessing inputs and outputs through the designed system and their consequences | p. 307 |
B26 Designing to conserve the use of non-renewable energy and material resources | p. 317 |
B27 Design for the management of outputs from the built environment and their integration with the natural environment: Designing to eliminate pollution and for benign biointegration | p. 333 |
B28 Design the built system over its life cycle from source to reintegration: Designing to enable and facilitate disassembly for continuous reuse, recycling and reintegration | p. 351 |
B29 Design using environmentally benign materials, furniture, fittings, equipment (FF&E) and products that can be continuously reused, recycled and reintegrated: Assessing the environmental consequences of materials, etc, used in the designed system | p. 376 |
B30 Design to reduce the use of ecosystem and biospheric services and impacts on the shared global environment (systemic integration) | p. 407 |
B31 Reassess the overall design (ie product, structure or infrastructure) in its totality for the level of environmental integration over its life cycle | p. 411 |
Chapter C Other Considerations | p. 412 |
C1 What is the green aesthetic? | p. 414 |
C2 Issues of practice | p. 417 |
C3 The future of ecodesign: Prosthetics design as the parallel basis for designing biointegration of artificial-to-natural systems | p. 427 |
C4 Appendix 1: Timeline of key international developments relating to the global environmen | p. 435 |
C5 Appendix 2: Sustainable development | p. 438 |
C6 Appendix 3: The Rio Principles | p. 439 |
Glossary | p. 441 |
Bibliography | p. 463 |
Index | p. 477 |