Ecodesign : a manual for ecological design

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Author:

Yeang, Ken, 1948-

ISBN:

9780470852910

9789832726401

Personal Author:

Yeang, Ken, 1948-

Publication Information:

London : Wiley, 2006.

Physical Description:

499 p. : ill., plans ; 22 x 27 cm.

Contents:

What is ecodesign? -- The objective of ecodesign -- The basis for ecodesign -- Ecomimicry -- The general law and theoretical basis for ecodesign -- Interrogate the premises for the design -- 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) -- Determine the level of environmental integration that can be achieved in the design -- Evaluate the ecological history of the site (for the designed system) -- Inventory the designed system's ecosystem (site-specific design) -- Delineate the designed system's boundary as a human-made or composite ecosystem in relation to the site's ecosystem -- Design to balance the biotic and abiotic components of the designed system -- Design to improve existing, and to create new ecological linkages -- Design to reduce the heat-island effect of the built environment on the ecology of the locality -- Design to reduce the consequences of the various modes of transportation and of the provision of access and vehicular parking for the designed system -- Design to integrate with the wider planning context and urban infrastructure of the designed system -- Design for improved internal comfort conditions (of the designed system as an enclosure) -- Design to optimise all passive-mode (or bioclimatic design) options in the designed system -- Design to optimise all mixed-mode options in the designed system -- Design to optimise all full-mode options in the designed system -- Design to optimise productive-mode options in the designed system -- Design to optimise composite-mode options in the designed system -- 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) -- Design for water conservation, recycling, harvesting, etc -- Design for wastewater and sewage treatment and recycling systems -- Design for food production and independence -- Design the built system's use of materials to minimise waste based on the analogy with the recycling properties of the ecosystem -- Design for vertical integration -- Design to reduce light and noise pollution of the ecosystems -- Designing the built environment as the transient management of materials and energy input flows -- Designing to conserve the use of non-renewable energy and material resources -- Design for the management of outputs from the built environment and their integration with the natural environment -- Design the built system over its life cycle from source to reintegration -- Design using environmentally benign materials, furniture, fittings, equipment (FF&E) and products that can be continuously reused, recycled and reintegrated -- Design to reduce the use of ecosystem and biospheric services and impacts on the shared global environment (systemic integration) -- Reassess the overall design (ie product, structure or infrastructure) in its totality for the level of environmental integration over its life cycle -- What is the green aesthetic? -- Issues of practice -- The future of ecodesign -- App. 1. Timeline of key international developments relating to the global environment -- App. 2. Sustainable development -- App. 3. The Rio Principles.

Subject Term:

Architecture -- Environmental aspects.

Industrial design -- Environmental aspects.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007386411-d.html

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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.