Tropical sustainable architecture : [book] social and environmental dimensions /
Bay, Joo-Hwa.
Tropical sustainable architecture : social and environmental dimensions / [book] Joo-Hwa Bay, Boon Lay Ong. - Oxford : Architectural Press, 2006 - xviii, 292 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index
Social and Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Sustainable Architecture: Introductory Comments / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon Lay Ong -- Architectural and Environmental Theories -- Rethinking Design Methodology for Sustainable Social Quality / Alexander Tzonis -- The Selective Environment: Environmental Design and Cultural Identity / Dean Hawkes -- Green Design in the Hot Humid Tropical Zone / Ken Yeang -- High-rise High-density Living -- Socio-Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Semi-open Spaces of High-rise Housing in Singapore Public Housing / Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam -- Building and Planning Requirements -- Policy and Evaluation System for Green Building in Subtropical Taiwan / Hsien-Te Lin -- In Search of a Habitable Urban Space-Built Ratio: A Case Study of Building and Planning Regulation in Dhaka City / Q.M. Mahtab-uz-Zaman, Fuad H. Mallick, A.Q.M. Abdullah and Jalal Ahmad -- Urban Environmental Impacts -- Designing High Density Cities - Parametric Studies of Urban Morphologies and their Implied Environmental Performance / Edward Ng, Tak-Yan Chan, Vicky Cheng, Nyuk Hien Wong and Meiqi Han -- THe Urban Heat Island Effect in Singapore / Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu -- Tropical Urban Street Canyons / Elias Salleh -- Experimental Sustainable Projects -- Tropical and Traditional: Inventing a New Housing Model for the Old 36 Streets Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam / Shoichi Ota -- ECOPET 21: An Innovative Sustainable Building System for Ecological COmmunitites in Tropical Regions Jose Robert Garcia Chavez -- Critique on Tropical Architecture -- Is Sustainability Sustainable? Interrogating the Tropical Paradigm in Asian Architecture / Anoma Pieris.
0750667974 (pbk.) 2230 Bht
ARCHITECTURE, TROPICAL--CONGRESSES.
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE--CONGRESSES.
ARCHITECTURE--ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS--TROPICS--CONGRESSES.
ARCHITECTURE--SOCIAL ASPECTS--TROPICS--CONGRESSES.
NA 2542.T7 / B39T 2006
Tropical sustainable architecture : social and environmental dimensions / [book] Joo-Hwa Bay, Boon Lay Ong. - Oxford : Architectural Press, 2006 - xviii, 292 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index
Social and Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Sustainable Architecture: Introductory Comments / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon Lay Ong -- Architectural and Environmental Theories -- Rethinking Design Methodology for Sustainable Social Quality / Alexander Tzonis -- The Selective Environment: Environmental Design and Cultural Identity / Dean Hawkes -- Green Design in the Hot Humid Tropical Zone / Ken Yeang -- High-rise High-density Living -- Socio-Environmental Dimensions in Tropical Semi-open Spaces of High-rise Housing in Singapore Public Housing / Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam -- Building and Planning Requirements -- Policy and Evaluation System for Green Building in Subtropical Taiwan / Hsien-Te Lin -- In Search of a Habitable Urban Space-Built Ratio: A Case Study of Building and Planning Regulation in Dhaka City / Q.M. Mahtab-uz-Zaman, Fuad H. Mallick, A.Q.M. Abdullah and Jalal Ahmad -- Urban Environmental Impacts -- Designing High Density Cities - Parametric Studies of Urban Morphologies and their Implied Environmental Performance / Edward Ng, Tak-Yan Chan, Vicky Cheng, Nyuk Hien Wong and Meiqi Han -- THe Urban Heat Island Effect in Singapore / Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu -- Tropical Urban Street Canyons / Elias Salleh -- Experimental Sustainable Projects -- Tropical and Traditional: Inventing a New Housing Model for the Old 36 Streets Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam / Shoichi Ota -- ECOPET 21: An Innovative Sustainable Building System for Ecological COmmunitites in Tropical Regions Jose Robert Garcia Chavez -- Critique on Tropical Architecture -- Is Sustainability Sustainable? Interrogating the Tropical Paradigm in Asian Architecture / Anoma Pieris.
0750667974 (pbk.) 2230 Bht
ARCHITECTURE, TROPICAL--CONGRESSES.
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE--CONGRESSES.
ARCHITECTURE--ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS--TROPICS--CONGRESSES.
ARCHITECTURE--SOCIAL ASPECTS--TROPICS--CONGRESSES.
NA 2542.T7 / B39T 2006