Renovating carbon / Erik L'Heureux, Ed., Giovanni Cossu, Ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

L'Heureux, Erik G., editor.

Cossu, Giovanni, editor.

Menon, Lakshmi, contributor.

Höweler, Eric, 1972- contributor.

Heng, Chye Kiang, 1958- contributor.

Ho, Puay-peng, contributor.

Kessling, Wolfgang, contributor.

Kishnani, Nirmal, 1962- contributor.

Knapp, Chris, contributor.

Comaroff, Joshua, contributor.

Lam, Khee Poh, 1956- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable architecture.

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

Carbon dioxide mitigation.

Physical Description:

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Novato : Oro Editions 2023.

Summary:

With global building stock projected to double in the next two decades, the challenge of reducing the carbon expenditure becomes a planning-design-construction opportunity. This urgently warrants an assessment of existing architectural practices and employment/usage of building systems, by professionals and experts to facilitate sustainable and optimistic experimentations. It is high time that we rethink the creative aspects of not just technology and buildings systems, but also the culture and the foundation of the building industry.00The book begins to explore these facets of the complex relationship between the built environment, carbon mitigation and climate change through the low-carbon adaptive re-use of SDE1/3 of the former School of Design and Environment (SDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The essays / articles extrapolate key themes on adaptive re-use to the hot and wet atmospheres on the urbanizing Equator. Unlike new-builds, the design and development of adaptive re-use projects straddle the existing realities of the built form and future projections of building use and operations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781954081444

1954081448

OCLC:

1374561227