Renovating carbon / Erik L'Heureux, Ed., Giovanni Cossu, Ed.
Contributor(s): L'Heureux, Erik G [editor.] | Cossu, Giovanni [editor.] | Menon, Lakshmi [contributor.] | Höweler, Eric [contributor.] | Heng, Chye Kiang [contributor.] | Ho Puay-Peng [contributor.] | Kessling, Wolfgang [contributor.] | Kishnani, Nirmal [contributor.] | Knapp, Chris [contributor.] | Comaroff, Joshua [contributor.] | Lam, Khee Poh [contributor.]
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TextEdition: First editionDescription: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 26 cmISBN: 9781954081444Subject(s): Sustainable architecture | Architecture -- Environmental aspects | Carbon dioxide mitigation | Architecture -- Environmental aspects | Carbon dioxide mitigation | Sustainable architectureDDC classification: 720.47 Summary: With global building stock projected to double in the next two decades, the challenge of reducing the carbon expenditure becomes a planning-design-construction opportunity. This urgently warrants an assessment of existing architectural practices and employment/usage of building systems, by professionals and experts to facilitate sustainable and optimistic experimentations. It is high time that we rethink the creative aspects of not just technology and buildings systems, but also the culture and the foundation of the building industry. The book begins to explore these facets of the complex relationship between the built environment, carbon mitigation and climate change through the low-carbon adaptive re-use of SDE1/3 of the former School of Design and Environment (SDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The essays / articles extrapolate key themes on adaptive re-use to the hot and wet atmospheres on the urbanizing Equator. Unlike new-builds, the design and development of adaptive re-use projects straddle the existing realities of the built form and future projections of building use and operations.
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With global building stock projected to double in the next two decades, the challenge of reducing the carbon expenditure becomes a planning-design-construction opportunity. This urgently warrants an assessment of existing architectural practices and employment/usage of building systems, by professionals and experts to facilitate sustainable and optimistic experimentations. It is high time that we rethink the creative aspects of not just technology and buildings systems, but also the culture and the foundation of the building industry. The book begins to explore these facets of the complex relationship between the built environment, carbon mitigation and climate change through the low-carbon adaptive re-use of SDE1/3 of the former School of Design and Environment (SDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The essays / articles extrapolate key themes on adaptive re-use to the hot and wet atmospheres on the urbanizing Equator. Unlike new-builds, the design and development of adaptive re-use projects straddle the existing realities of the built form and future projections of building use and operations.
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