Green Architecture

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Strategies for Sustainability: Integrating Landscape and Architecture to make cities delightful. The more livable our cities, the more sustainable they can be.

1.   Conserve Energy

1.   Cities: Reduce automobile use, Build compact cities, Public transit, pedestrian environment

2.   Buildings : Insulation, orientation, passive and active solar energy. Daylighting. Shading, Sustainable sources of materials

2.   Reduce Heat Island effect

1.   Bring landscape into city for shade, air quality and delight. Plant trees for shade, green roofs, green corridors, reduce paving

3.   Reduce Pollution

1.   Recycle. Control sources for pollution, Regulate emissions, find alternatives to polluting substances.

4.   Conserve Water

1.   Return rainwater to ground (permeable paving). Native landscaping requires less irrigation. Reuse gray water. Treat sewage to high degree.

5.   Conserve Wildlife

1.   Protect wildlife habitat. Habitat corridors through city. Design habitats for native wildlife (parks for animals and people)

Wildlife corridors bring native ecosystem into city.

Tukwila, Washington, Wildlife Corridors, University of Washington

Ken Yeang, Project for Elephant and Cast.e, London,

Why can’t wildlife corridors climb buildings too?

Pond edge

Strategies for Sustainability: Integrating Landscape and Architecture to make cities delightful. The more livable our cities, the more sustainable they can be.

1.   Conserve Energy

1.   Cities: Reduce automobile use, Build compact, mixed use cities with transit and rich pedestrian environment

2.   Buildings : Insulation, orientation, passive and active solar energy. Daylighting. Shading, Sustainable sources of materials

2.   Reduce Heat Island effect

1.   Bring landscape into city for shade, air quality and delight. Plant trees for shade, green roofs, green corridors, reduce paving

3.   Reduce Pollution

1.   Recycle. Control sources for pollution, Regulate emissions, find alternatives to polluting substances.

4.   Conserve Water

1.   Return rainwater to ground (permeable paving). Native landscaping requires less irrigation. Reuse gray water. Treat sewage to high degree.

5.   Conserve Wildlife

1.   Protect wildlife habitat. Habitat corridors through city. Design habitats for native wildlife (parks for animals and people)

Copenhagen cyclists

Parking problem in Copenhagen

Haren, near Groningen, Germany

Hamilton Baillie Architects, UK

Copenhagen, Denmark

Mixed Use. Rotterdam Market, MVRDV

Market, commercial, office, residential

Dorn Avenue, 1990

Dorn Avenue now. Dover Kohl Associates Town Planners

Strategies for Sustainability: Integrating Landscape and Architecture to make cities delightful. The more livable our cities, the more sustainable they can be.

1.   Conserve Energy

1.   Cities: Reduce automobile use, Build compact cities, Public transit, pedestrian environment

2.   Buildings : Insulation, orientation, passive and active solar energy. Daylighting. Shading, Sustainable sources of materials

2.   Reduce Heat Island effect

1.   Bring landscape into city for shade, air quality and delight. Plant trees for shade, green roofs, green corridors, reduce paving

3.   Reduce Pollution

1.   Control sources for pollution, Regulate emissions, find alternatives to polluting substances. Recycle.

2.   Plant buffers between highways and populated areas

4.   Conserve Water

1.   Return rainwater to ground (permeable paving). Native landscaping requires less irrigation. Reuse gray water. Treat sewage to high degree.

5.   Conserve Wildlife

1.   Protect wildlife habitat. Habitat corridors through city. Design habitats for native wildlife (parks for animals and people)

Ken Yeang

Menara Boustead

Malaysia

Cross Ventilation. Air flow

Location of Core, Central vs. Flanking core on East and West

Shading Screens on North and South

Recessed Balconies Shared Green Spaces

Ken Yeang, Principles of Green Highrise Design in the Tropics

Raised Base Green Walls Wind Scoops Cross-Ventilation

Ken Yeang, Principles of Green Highrise Design in the Tropics

Ken Yeang, Principles of Green High-rise Design in the Tropics

Solar Shading Solar Collectors Insulation on East and West in humid climates

Mass on East and West in arid climates

Double Skin Design

William McDonough, NASA Building

Strategies for Sustainability: Integrating Landscape and Architecture to make cities delightful. The more livable our cities, the more sustainable they can be.

1.   Conserve Energy

1.   Cities: Reduce automobile use, Build compact cities, Public transit, pedestrian environment

2.   Buildings : Insulation, orientation, passive and active solar energy. Daylighting. Shading, Sustainable sources of materials

2.   Reduce Heat Island effect

1.   Bring landscape into city for shade, air quality and delight. Plant trees for shade, green roofs, green corridors, reduce paving

3.   Reduce Pollution

1.   Recycle. Control sources for pollution, Regulate emissions, find alternatives to polluting substances.

4.   Conserve Water

1.   Return rainwater to ground (permeable paving). Native landscaping requires less irrigation. Reuse gray water. Treat sewage to high degree.

5.   Conserve Wildlife

1.   Protect wildlife habitat. Habitat corridors through city. Design habitats for native wildlife (parks for animals and people)

Urban Heat Island

Hotter in city because of pavement and buildings that absorb heat during day and re-radiate it at night.

Urban Heat Island

Thermal photo from plane NASA

Street Canyon, Effects of sun and wind

David Perlmutter, Univ of Arizona

Street trees

Raymond Jungles, Garden Lincoln Rd, 2011 Notice tri-color heron

Green Roofs

Now accepted by building code in Miami

Project for Housing near Milan, Italy

Strategies for Sustainability: Integrating Landscape and Architecture to make cities delightful. The more livable our cities, the more sustainable they can be.

1.   Conserve Energy

1.   Cities: Reduce automobile use, Build compact cities, Public transit, pedestrian environment

2.   Buildings : Insulation, orientation, passive and active solar energy. Daylighting. Shading, Sustainable sources of materials

2.   Reduce Heat Island effect

1.   Bring landscape into city for shade, air quality and delight. Plant trees for shade, green roofs, green corridors, reduce paving

3.   Reduce Pollution

1.   Recycle. Control sources for pollution, Regulate emissions, find alternatives to polluting substances.

4.   Conserve Water

1.   Return rainwater to ground (permeable paving). Native landscaping requires less irrigation. Reuse gray water. Treat sewage to high degree.

5.   Conserve Wildlife

1.   Protect wildlife habitat. Habitat corridors through city. Design habitats for native wildlife (parks for animals and people)

Concrete Plant, Barcelona, 1973

Same concrete plant reused

Offices, Ricardo Bofil Taller de Arquitectura, 1975

Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitetura, 1975

Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitetura, 1975, gallery

Strategies for Sustainability: Integrating Landscape and Architecture to make cities delightful. The more livable our cities, the more sustainable they can be.

1.   Conserve Energy

1.   Cities: Reduce automobile use, Build compact cities, Public transit, pedestrian environment

2.   Buildings : Insulation, orientation, passive and active solar energy. Daylighting. Shading, Sustainable sources of materials

2.   Reduce Heat Island effect

1.   Bring landscape into city for shade, air quality and delight. Plant trees for shade, green roofs, green corridors, reduce paving

3.   Reduce Pollution

1.   Recycle. Control sources for pollution, Regulate emissions, find alternatives to polluting substances.

4.   Conserve Water

1.   Return rainwater to ground (permeable paving). Native landscaping requires less irrigation. Reuse gray water. Treat sewage to high degree.

5.   Conserve Wildlife

1.   Protect wildlife habitat. Habitat corridors through city. Design habitats for native wildlife (parks for animals and people)

John Todd, Living Machine Greenhouse for purifying waste water and growing vegetables.

William McDonough + Partners, Adam Joseph Lewis Center, Oberlin College, 2006

Here’s how it works

Ken Yeang Proposal for promenade in Netherlands

Intersection of US1 and the Snapper Creek Expressway in South Miami

Here are immediate opportunities in this most unhospitable carscape

Blue = Rooftop available for solar panels or green roof

Light Green= grass area available for wildlife habitat: native shrub planting

Dark Green= parking areas available for shade trees in strips of permeable paving

We can do it if we try