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Tropical sustainable architecture : social and environmental dimensions / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon Lay Ong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Architectural, 2006Description: xviii, 292 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0750667974
  • 9780750667975
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.913 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2542.T7 T767 2006
Contents:
1. Social and environmental dimensions in tropical sustainable architecture : introductory comments / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon-Lay Ong -- 2. Rethinking design methodology for sustainable social quality / Alexander Tzonis -- 3. The selective environment : environmental design and cultural identity / Dean Hawkes -- 4. Green design in the hot humid tropical zone / Ken Yeang -- 5. Socio-environmental dimensions in tropical semi-open spaces of high-rise housing in Singapore / Joo-Hwa Bay, Na Wang, Qian Liang and Ping Kong -- 6. BEAMs and architectural design in Singapore public housing / Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam -- 7. Policy and evaluation system for green building in subtropical Taiwan / Hsien-Te Lin -- 8. 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 -- 9. 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 -- 10. The urban heat island effect in Singapore / Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu -- 11. Tropical urban street canyons / Elias Salleh -- 12. Tropical and traditional : inventing a new housing model for the old 36 streets quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam / Shoichi Ota -- 13. ECOPET 21 : an innovative sustainable building system for ecological communities in tropical regions / Jose Roberto Garcia Chavez -- 14. Is sustainability sustainable? : interrogating the tropical paradigm in Asian architecture / Anoma Pieris.
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Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Social and environmental dimensions in tropical sustainable architecture : introductory comments / Joo-Hwa Bay and Boon-Lay Ong -- 2. Rethinking design methodology for sustainable social quality / Alexander Tzonis -- 3. The selective environment : environmental design and cultural identity / Dean Hawkes -- 4. Green design in the hot humid tropical zone / Ken Yeang -- 5. Socio-environmental dimensions in tropical semi-open spaces of high-rise housing in Singapore / Joo-Hwa Bay, Na Wang, Qian Liang and Ping Kong -- 6. BEAMs and architectural design in Singapore public housing / Boon-Lay Ong and Chi-Nguyen Cam -- 7. Policy and evaluation system for green building in subtropical Taiwan / Hsien-Te Lin -- 8. 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 -- 9. 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 -- 10. The urban heat island effect in Singapore / Wong Nyuk-Hien and Chen Yu -- 11. Tropical urban street canyons / Elias Salleh -- 12. Tropical and traditional : inventing a new housing model for the old 36 streets quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam / Shoichi Ota -- 13. ECOPET 21 : an innovative sustainable building system for ecological communities in tropical regions / Jose Roberto Garcia Chavez -- 14. Is sustainability sustainable? : interrogating the tropical paradigm in Asian architecture / Anoma Pieris.

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