Eco Skyscrapers (Volume 2)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1864703873
ISBN 13
9781864703870
Category
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Pages
160
Description
Tall buildings represent a way of the future which is perceived as necessary despite being environmentally unfriendlyThis book demonstrates methods to make these energy-consuming buildings as efficient as possible until a time when the world finds economically viable alternativesKen Yeang remains one of the world's foremost experts on sustainability and the modern skyscraper. Acknowledging that the skyscraper is possibly one of the most ecologically unfriendly of all building types, he states that until an economically viable alternative is identified, it is necessary to make them as humane and as sustainable as possible. Each project is presented together with data on its climatic location, the local vegetation, plot ratio, net and gross areas. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
