Ken Yeang
Architect and Eccologist Ken Yeang creates amazing high density built structures inspired by natural eccosystems. Ken recognises the unsustainable current urban growth patterns and aims to address the environmental consequences of urban growth in his design work.
Yeang looks at skyscrapers as a typology and aims to achive:
' benign and seemless intergration of everthing that humans do or build in the natural enviroment' - Ken Yeang, the waste project. viewed 7.4.11 Its my beleive that this idea of benign integration should be the aim on a mico or macro scale to all facets of life when developing built environments. More information can be found in the following short video, found at: http://youtu.be/H1P1kkcEzWM
Editt Tower- singapore
- starts by looking at sites eccological system & properties
- heirachy of eccosystems
- analysis revealed devistated eccosystem
- Design Approach is to reinstate with organic mass
- Indiginouse planting within 1 mile radius mapped to identify speices
- Placemaking considered - spacial continuity between street level & upper floors due to physical compartmentalization.
- Aim to bring 'street life' to upper building.
- implementation, wide upsloping ramps from ground 'street' level utilizing activity of ground level up.
- verticle landscaping
-Embodied energy & resource recycling
Imigag taken from the T.R. Hamzah & Yeang International website.
http://www.trhamzahyeang.com- viewed 7.4.11
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