KEN YEANG

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SHIRIN IZADPANAH 095124

CONTENT

PART 1……………………………………………BIOGRAPHY

PART 2……………………………………………LIFE and CAREER

PART 3…………………………………………… BOOKS

PART 4…………………………………………… HONORS and

EXHIBITIONS

PART 5……………………………………………MAJOR PROJECTS

PART 6……………………………………………PROJECTS PICTURES

PART 6……………………………………………ECOCITY 2009

BIOGRAPHYDr. Ken Yeang is the world's leading architect in ecological and passive low energy design. He has delivered over 200 built projects and his 'bioclimatic' towers have had an impact around the world, fusing high-tech and organic principles.He is a member of the RIBA and is registered with ARB. Over his 35 years of professional practice, he has seen to completion over a hundred projects on site, including having designed over 50 skyscrapers.

LIFE AND CAREERDr. Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect and ecologist whose planning and designs have had the constancy of the theoretical framework of ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficiency for almost 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974,Yeang continues his research and designs to further this theory for architecture around the world. In

addition to a fulltime practice that encompasses large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning, Yeang has been a prolific writer of books about ecodesign and a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Yeang attended Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, England, received his first degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in London, and received a PhD in ecological design from Cambridge University.

His dissertation was entitled, "A Theoretical Framework for the Ecological Design and Planning of the Built Environment". As a principal in T. R. Hamzah and Yeang in Kuala Llumpur, Malaysia, since 1975, he was instrumental in developing the design of low energy skyscrapers.

As a result of his energy conserving innovations, Yeang has designed skyscrapers in London, Singapore, Kuwait, Canada, China, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The firm has also designed master plans for both sites and multi-building complexes in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, and China. In 2005 Yeang became a director of the old and venerable English firm of Llewelyn Davies Yeang. It is a multidisciplinary firm of urban designers, architects, and landscape architects with headquarters in London. The combined firms of Llewelyn Davies Yeang and T. R. Hamzah and Yeang have offices in London, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shenzen, and Sydney

Ken recognized 40 years ago that world population, industrialization, and technology would continue to increase, and the resulting global warming and increased contamination of the environment would adversely affect the natural balance of biodiversity and ecosystems. His architecture projects all represent his constant pursuit of ecodesign. Yeang’s buildings feature low energy usage, eco-land bridges, vertical landscaping, ecocells, light shelves, light pipes, sky courts, stepped terraces, vertical linked enclosed atria, bioswales, and deep green architecture. They are designed to minimize disruptions with the adjoining ecosystems and to maintain the sensitive ecobalance.

BOOKS by KEN YEANG

The green skyscraper: the basis for designing sustainable intensive building

Reinventing the skyscraper: A VerticalTheory of Urban Design

Eco skyscraper

The mutiara master plan

Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design

Tropical Urban Regionalism: Building in a South-East Asian City

HONORS and EXHIBITIONSThere have been 18 exhibitions of Yeang’s bioclimatic works, from Tokyo to Berlin to New York, London, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Rotterdam dating from l985 through 2008. Yeang and his ecodesigns have been featured in a number of special broadcasts, including BBC television and radio, NHK (Japan) and Asia Discovery Channel, and Public Broadcasting System’s design=e2 in which he was specifically identified as one of three architects in the world who have the greatest influence on ecodesign. Yeang began garnering awards for his designs in l989, and since then he has been recognized for his extraordinary designs with over 35 awards, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his Menara Mesiniaga. In 2003 Yeang was awarded the Government of Malaysia’s Danjah Mulia Pangkuan Negen (DMPN) that carries with the official title of Dato.

MAJOR PROJECTS•Plaza Atrium•Menara Boustead•Menara Mesiniaga•MBF Tower•Tokyo-Nara Tower•Penggiran Apartment Towers No. 1•UMNO Tower•Mesiniaga Penang•New National Library of Singapore•Solaris•Jumptown Tower

Plaza Atrium (kuala lumpur . Malaysia)

A twenty-two storey office tower aimed at an appropriate, climatically responsive form for tropical high-rise buildings. The main design feature is an external atrium which acts as a traditional space with stepped back terraces.

Menara Boustead (kuala lumpur . Malaysia)

It is a thirty-two-storey office tower connected by an overhead bridge to a twelve-storey car parking annex.

Menara Mesiniaga (Subang jaya, Malaysia)

It is a high-tech, 15-storey corporate showcase on a convenient and visually prominent corner site.

Its tri-partite structure consists of a raised "green" base, ten circular floors of office space with terraced garden balconies and external louvers for shade, and is crowned by a spectacular sun-roof, arching across the top-floor pool.

MBF Tower (Penang, Malaysia)

It’s a banking and office hall at the base, and an upper apartment block of 68 units. the upper parts of the tower have large two-storey high skycourts" as the building's key feature that provide better ventilation and deck-space for planting and terraces.

UMNO TowerThe UMNO Tower is one of the few skyscrapers of the world engineered to use wind to create interior comfort. If necessary all office corridors can be ventilated naturally. A set of wing walls has been installed in key positions according to an analysis of wind direction data at the building location; these walls direct the wind into special balcony zones, which serve the natural ventilation and cooling with containers with air locks.

Ken yeang will be addressing the issue of the water use, public health, Urban density in cities in eccocity world summit 2009.