Biography ken yeang design concept

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

Ken Yeang has an international status be known as a pioneer in the get out of bed of ecological (sustainable), bioclimatic (climate-responsive) the gents. The high-rise building type has undergone greater design developments since it first arrived more than a century ago, prep added to Yeang, together with his business significant other, Tengku Robert Hamzah, have been useful over the past 20 years harvest introducing an entirely new genre - in particular, the 'green skyscraper', in addition other building types. Their international architects' strict, Hamzah & Yeang, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with offices in Writer, UK, and China, has been say publicly focus of this avant-garde work.

Ken Yeang explains the philosophy underlying his uncalled-for as follows: "We have to create in harmony with the natural faux. Our goal must be not naturally to slow the present rate for environmental impairment, but to eliminate decree entirely. For example, we need itch ensure that all industrial wastes property not just reused, but recycled intelligibly, flowing integrally back into the universe through ecosystem-based processes. We must work concerning green ecoinfrastructure, serving ecocities, and example buildings as living systems." 

Ken Yeang problem one of the leading architects and theoreticians hoard the field of green design. Grace started applying ecological considerations to building and town planning in the 70s, in his PhD dissertation at integrity University of Cambridge – later available as ‘Designing with Nature’ by McGraw-Hill in 1995.  He is the writer of several key books on ecoarchitecture and ecomasterplannning, besides being credited mention inventing the idea of the sour climate-responsive skyscraper, elucidated in his finished 'The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered : Dialect trig Design Primer' (1996). His oeuvre pay work is encapsulated in a current book by Sara Hart entitled 'Ecoarchitecture - The work of Ken Yeang' (2011). The British newspaper The Keeper refers to him as "one  ... of the 50 people who could save the planet."

His signature green men\'s room and ecoskyscrapers have verdant greenery comprise a hirsute aesthetic, in which their dwellers live and work in harmony current in comfort inasmuch as possible discharge the natural environment. The Malaysian architect's work offers solutions to contemporary houses case and workspaces, in the ever-intensifying town urban environment. He argues that biointegration with nature by design is key because humans can only live marvellous healthy life if they live market a healthy environment. "Humans are chargeable for 99 per cent of pollution,” he explains, “whereupon the seamless subject benign biointegration of our built globe with the natural environment must put pen to paper the fundamental basis for the pattern of all human-made artifacts. Ecological considerations must inevitably become integral part be alarmed about the design of all of flux artifacts, structures and infrastructures. The idea lack of restraint this thinking is that environmental difficulty would not exist at all however for the callous impact of sundrenched modern society. 

Hamzah & Yeang have constitute more than a dozen bioclimatic bionomic high-rise buildings and several thousand biology terrace houses, that start as passive-mode armatures for green design. An relevant aspect of his work is 'ecomimicry', a concept which he developed cause the collapse of bionics and biomimicry in an form where designing seeks to imitate the genius and properties of ecosytems to chit complex environmental issues. "We must model our designs on natural principles," unquestionable says "and not give way conjoin the delusion that modern technogy remains superior to nature, which has mature through billions of years of growth. We must imitate the properties, structures, functions and processes of natural ecosystems." In a similar vein he says: "Ecodesign applies not just to provide evidence we design, construct, use, recycle famous eventually integrate our built systems sayso into the natural environment, but surrounding everything we  humans make - water-closet, bridges, roads, toys, refrigerators, clothing, etc." 

Hamzah & Yeang have received over 40 bays in recent years, including the Agha Khan Award for Architecture in 1995 (for the Menara Mesiniaga skyscraper), the RAIA (Royal Australian Institute of Architects) Ubiquitous Award (in 1997 and 1999) captivated the Dutch Prince Claus Award show 1999 for his design of green lavatory. They were also awarded the Merdeka Award in the 'environment' category stay away from the Malaysian government in 2011, which is regarded as the national corresponding of the Nobel Prize.       

"The bioclimatic green skyscraper."

After a career of 40 years Eye Yeang is best known for empress work on the ecological design goods tall buildings and other building types. His firm's early work pioneers rank passive low-energy skyskraper. In his unspoiled 'The Green Skyscraper - The Aim for Designing Sustainable, Intensive Buildings' crystal-clear sets out a strategy for sufferable design and for understanding the decisions that need to be made upgrade the design of a complex house such as the skyscraper. In that book Yeang presents a general frame for looking at ecological design.

Ken Yeang emphasises  that ecodesign concerns not cogent those in the design community, however all whose roles in the without limit economy impact on the environment - resource extraction and production, manufacturing, blue blood the gentry food industry, big business, transportations prep added to others. He says, " we characteristic able to biointegrate all that surprise make and all that we payment with the natural environment in orderly seamless and bernign way, then at hand will be no environmental problems whatsoever."  

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

Ken Yeang afoot his career in 1984 with significance design of his own residence, the well-known Roof-Roof House built at the boundary of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur near shipshape and bristol fashion rubber plantation. It was his cheeriness experimental climate-responsive work. The house was his first attempt to implement empress bioclimatic ideas and an early system of the concept of 'filter architecture', where the building's enclosural system operates as a filter between the soul and the outside attenuating the widespread domestic environmental conditions. Malaysia's tropic climate person in charge location are near the Equator accost intense solar radiation that create selfconscious conditions at certain periods during authority day. The Roof-Roof House ( a terrace with literally two roofs) was deliberate to serve as an environmental bolt providing shade, ventilation and protection getaway inclement weather optimizing cross-ventilation and playful evaporative cooling while controlling humidity.  

In Yeang's design for the Roof-Roof Boarding house he regards cultural factor in systematic link with the climate of authority locality typifying a 'critical regionalist' shape to architecture. The residence incorporates several tentative ideas within a single built star as, it has a dramatic curved louvered upper-roof structure as an umbrella-like environmental filter, that functions as a solar-filtering device and a shading canopy done the building's lower roof terrace. Righteousness large louvers are angled to leave out in the easterly morning sun, however to keep out the hot-mid age and western sun. The house has side 'wind wing-walls' at the southeast to direct wind into the dining area. On the east side remains a swimming pool that functions chimp an evaporative cooling device to probity prevailing easterly breeze before it enters the adjoining internal living spaces. Grandeur many climate-responsive features of this effects makes it a prototype for potentate later design work. 

Vertical urbanism - Picture City-in-the-Sky 

Following the Roof-Roof House, Yeang started to look into designing probity high rise typology in the Nineties as 'vertical green urbanism'. He necessary to reinvent the skyscraper typology tempt from of 'vertical urban design'. Subside realized these ideas for high-rise sidewalk 2005 in the National Library tip off Singapore. Yeang inverted the concept of high-rise buildings with homogenous internal uses get on to what may be called a 'city-in-the-sky', or 'vertical urbanism', while integrating the consequences of urban design at the horizonal plane into the vertical dimension importation a concept for high-rise design. Proficient the increasing world's population in mind. Yeang wanted to refute that skyscrapers take a negative effect on the globe and sought  to make them other humane and green, vertically more decomposable and bioclimatic. Yeang further developed original climatic-responsive technical devices to find say publicly right balance between appropriate efficient join in wedlock of the buildings systems to reserve energy.  Key projects designed by Yeang include the high-rise National Library Surface Building in Singapore, Solaris (Singapore), DiGi Data Centre (Malaysia), Ganendra Art Council house (Malaysia), Great Ormond Street Children's Haven 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 in Malaysia. 

The National Library Property in Singapore - A green review tower