Green Architecture

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)
 Pond Apple, Florida

Native trees of South Florida support

diverse wildlife. Trees are the foundation
of terrestrial ecosystem

Live Oak, Florida

Emilio Ambasz, ENI Headquarters:
The Palace of Vertical Gardens
Competition, 2nd Place
Emilio Ambasz Fukoka, Japan
Prefectural International Hall, 2000
Wildlife corridors bring native ecosystem into
city.
Tukwila, Washington, Wildlife Corridors,
University of Washington
Tukwila, Washington, Wildlife Corridors,
University of Washington
Educational Environments
Ken Yeang, Project for Elephant and Cast.e, London,

Why can’t wildlife corridors climb buildings too?

Ken Yeang,. Project for Elephant and Cast;e London
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)
Village Homes, Davis California
Energy conservation
Water retention
Pedestrian community
Narrow Streets
Pedestrian paths, Surface swales
for water retention, Park corridors
Passive solar heating
Streets for multiple uses: Pedestrian,
bicycle, cars
Lyngby High Street near
Copenhagen
Designed by Bjarne Winterberg
(Ramboll Nyvig)
Haren, near Groningen, Germany

Hamilton Baillie Architects, UK

Copenhagen, Denmark
New High-density housing, Rijevijk, The
Netherlands

Residential streets for Pedestrians

Hamilton Baillie Architects, UK

Copenhagen, Denmark
Streets for kids
Woonerf Fijsvijk, The Netherlands
Hamilton Baillie Architects, UK
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
Location of Core, Central vs. Shading Screens Recessed Balconies Shared Green
Flanking core on East and West on North and South 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

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

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

Ken Yeang Bioclimatic
Skyscraper Studies
Morphosis,
New federal Building
San Francisco, CA
2007

This is how it works

Morphosis,
New federal Building
San Francisco, CA
2007
Double Skin Design
Renzo Piano Debis Tower, Berlin,
1999
Renzo Piano, Debis Tower, Berlin 1999
Norman Foster, Reichstag Dome,
Berlin, 2001
Norman Foster, Reichstag Dome,
Berlin, 1999
Norman Foster, Reichstag Dome, Berlin,
1999
Norman Foster, Reichstag Dome, Berlin, 1999
This is how it works
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
Wind Tunnel Testing, Cardiff University
Buildings can funnel wind to make very
high velocities at ground level.
Awnings and trees can dampen the wind at
ground Wind Velocity Profile
City is hard on trees
Street Canyon, Effects of sun and wind
David Perlmutter, Univ of Arizona
Ken Yeang
Menara Boustead

Tropical Green
building
Ken Yeang, Menara
Mesininaga, 1996
Ken Yeang, Menara
Mesininaga, 1996
Ken Yeang, Menara
Mesininaga, 1996
Green Roofs
Now accepted by building code
in Miami
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)
Waste is food

This garden is
supported by waste
water from building

Water is precious
resource

Plenetary Coral Reef Foundation Field Station Akumal, Mexico

Rocky Mountain Institute, Solar
Power, 1970s
Passive Solar design in cold climate
Here’s how it works
Solar Umbrella House, Pugh + Scarpa 2002,
Venice, California
Solar panels provide shade for roof terraces
Solar Umbrella House, Pugh +
Scarpa
Solar Umbrella House, Pugh + Scarpa
Nice place, very expensive
Solar Umbrella House, Pugh +
Scarpa
Shops, Jamaica

No solar panels, but here are same principles of shading,

open terraces, social space and trees make a nice place,
built by people who have very little money.
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