Reinventing the skyscraper : a vertical theory of urban design / by Ken Yeang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeang, Ken, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skyscrapers--Design and construction.

Skyscrapers.

Skyscrapers--Social aspects.

City planning.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Academy, 2002.

Summary:

This book is invaluable to the reader interested in tall buildings, to architects and engineers seeking a new approach for their designs and to investors and developers seeking to create more marketable and habitable high-rise dwellings and skyscraper commercial spaces.

It puts forward Ken Yeang's ideas for the reinvention of the skyscraper as a city-in-the-sky, in a novel design approach that resembles urban design and planning as against the design of a conventional building in a high-rise structure. The book proposes a new approach to high-rise design as a vertical theory of urban design and discusses Yeang's theoretical propositions and design concepts that include those for de-compartmenting the skyscraper's built form, for urban analysis as a three-dimensional matrix and for a strategy to map the land use of the skyscraper. It also suggests ideas for the diversification of vertical land uses, the creation of public realms and places-in-the-sky, vertical landscaping, creating high-rise neighbourhoods, vertical townscape, vertical transportation and accessibility, the skyscraper as an urban ecosystem and other related topics. The book's many ideas and its theoretical approach radically change the current design approach to tall buildings to make them into more humane environments and be more satisfying to its inhabitants in its endeavour to recreate the ideal conditions at the ground now up in the sky. The book is illustrated by numerous diagrams and illustrations. This book is a sequel to Yeang's earlier book, The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered.

Contents:

01 Premises for a Vertical Theory 8

02 The Tall Building Typology and Cities 33

03 Decompartmentalising the Skyscraper's Built Form 56

04 Urban Design Framework and Vertical Land-Use Mapping 72

05 Diversification of Vertical Land Uses 88

06 Public Realms and Place-Making in the Sky 101

07 Vertical Landscaping and Open Spaces 126

08 Creating Neighbourhoods in the Sky 138

09 Movement, Accessibility and Streets-in-the-Sky 148

10 Artificial Land in the Sky: Flexibility and Change 173

11 The Skyscraper as an Urban Ecosystem 180

12 The New Skyscraper 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0470843551

OCLC:

48753187