Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design (Paperback)

by Ken Yeang (Author)
Key Phrases: partitioned matrix, interactions matrix, proposed designed system, North America, Hong Kong, Summary Ecodesign (more...)

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"...stuffed full of solid practical advice and fascinating statistics...I would recommend that everybody downs tools until they have read this." (House & Garden, November 2008)

Product Description
You'll find clear instructions on how to design, build and use a green sustainable architecture in Ecodesign. Author Ken Yeang will show you how to produce and maintain ecosystem-like structures and systems whose content and outputs not only integrate benignly with the natural environment, but whose built form and systems function with sensitivity to the locality's ecology as well in relation to global biospheric processes. He will help you learn to develop structures and systems that are low consumers of non-renewable resources, built with materials that have low ecological consequences and are designed to facilitate disassembly, continuous reuse and recycling, and that at the end of their useful lives can be reintegrated seamlessly back into the natural environment. Each of these aspects, and other attendant ones, is examined in detail with regards to how they influence design and planning.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; illustrated edition edition (June 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470997788
• ISBN-13: 978-0470997789
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #723,593 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Where are the drawings?, January 27, 2008

By	Rachel Smith - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design (Hardcover)

I love ken's "rethinking the skyscraper" There is so much description in the diagrams and drawings etc. This book is difficult because there is so much to read and not as many diagrams to explain the ideas. THe ideas are complex and i just wish there was more information to clarify.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good and technical, July 14, 2007

By	J. T. Solheim "tycho" (Norway) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design (Hardcover)

It is a good and very complete book on the subject. It looks at all the aspects of eco-architecture, but maybe a bit to dificult to read if you are not specialy interested in the subject. It has given me a lot of new thoughts and ideas. Very good indeed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Complex & useful as well as a pleasant & readable book, May 21, 2007

By	Francisco J. Guerra "eupalinos" (México, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design (Hardcover)

«Ecodesign, a manual for ecological design», is a complex & useful as well as a pleasant & readable book. The approach followed by Ken Yeang and the structure of the book makes it useful for those interested in sustainability as well as professional designers. Premises & strategies --some of them subject of debate-- are presented in a non-dogmatic fashion, allowing the reader to form its own opinion, thus contributing to build new knowledge on the subject. Chapter B, Design Instructions, the core of the book, is precisely a toolbox that guides the reader in a step by step set of directions that assist designers & planners to make the relevant decisions in the ecological design process, far beyond the concept of green buildings. The book has been very useful to us as socioeconomic & regional planners, allowing not also to determine the main guidelines for a regional strategic plan, but also to determine the specific criteria that should be applied in the specific design at the urban & building levels. The book is much more than a useful tool, it is a «landmark» in the field of sustainability, a much needed line of thought in the world of today, if we want to have a world tomorrow.