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Designing the green skyscraper
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Viswanath, H. R. Tolloczko, Jurek Clarke, J. N. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Description | Already well-argued elsewhere is the case for architects and engineers to design our man-made environment to be sustainable or 'green'. "Green" or ecologically-responsive design objectives are to build with minimal impact on the natural environment and to integrate the built-environment with the ecological systems (ecosystems) of the locality. For many designers today, these design objectives are regarded as given pre-requisites for all their design endeavours. This proposition of the skyscraper as an ecologically-responsive building might well appear to be a conundrum for some. Afterall, the skyscraper is the city's most intensive building-type (besides perhaps, the shopping-mall or the convention centre). Skyscrapers, in comparison to those other considerably smaller experimental low-energy ecological buildings, are by all means and purposes not low-energy nor self-evident ecological building types by virtue of their enormous size and high consumption of energy and materials. Book Name: Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings |
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| Ending Page | 40 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 25 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781482272048-8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2003-09-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings Architecture Built Environment Low Energy Building Types Skyscraper Ecological Building Design Objectives Ecologically Responsive |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
