Concluding the highrise conference of the day and what i have learnt:
Speaker 1: Ar Hijjas Kasturi
Highrise and Sustainability
To gain sustainability, carbon emission is to be reduced. The world's developement is contributing 33-38% of carbon emission. However, there's no exact way of doing so, but the established guidelines serves as a beginning to help in reducing.
When mentioning about sustainability, what is it actually? is it about water and energy efficiency?
No, it is more than that. We need to look into the materials and construction industry etc to reduce the impact to the environment, and that would be where technology comes in.
The sustainability could be done through the aspects of the usage, method, type, transportation, disposal, and construction method of the materials. For example, using recycle papers as formwork instead of topical plywood would be a practise in the past.
The other technology introduced would be the bubble deck, which reduce the amount of concrete used and saving material up to 50% by using plastic balls. Another would be the air purification by using photocatalytic pavement blocks which absorbs water with special concrete pavement blocks. The water harvest system and heavy glazing windows are introduced too, not forgetting the raised floor system for the inverter air-conditioning system/cold generation.
He strongly urged us to lobby politicians and policy makers.
When asking about his opinion on the 100 storey highrise proposed by our beloved prime minister, he voiced our that it is merely an ego trademark, obviously, and that proposal is unsustainable at all. He reasoned that with the same amount of money can build 30 buildings of 30 storey highrise.
Highrise with its vertical transportation means would be wasting even more electric and time etc.
Speaker 2: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Faridah Shafii
The Sustainability of Tall Buildings: A bird's Eye View
Face the inconvenient truth where there's a major increased in energy price and security, she highlighted three pillars to tackle the sustainable issues: environment, economy and social. Highrises would means only high energy consuption for highrise's elevators and water pumping.
The guidelines used are mainly to grade buildings initial planning idea, not for after construction purposes. That would be a bit different from my previous understandings.
Speaker 3: Prof. Dr. Azlan Adnan
Earthquake Effect and Highrise Building Design in Malaysia
Very engineering speech. Not really interested. For more info please google.
Speaker 4: Miss Lillian Tay (Principal, chief deisgn officer of Veritas Architects)
A Sustainable Approach for Design and Our City
The presentation was done by showing the ongoing Veritas projects. Here i would highlight some of it that creates impacts to me.
One central: linkage towards the KLCC. To her, sustainability is about bringing the development into the neighbourhood. Creating building envelope would be equally important. She demonsrates the way they manipulate the design of portable photovoltaic panels and how they create natural ventilated but protected + heat buffer green space. With protected atrium, it would also sufficiently sheltered from the rain and sun.
Most of the projects used CFD stimulation by the engineers to understand the solar/wind influence on the building.
There's also a project alike rifle range, penang. The approach they use is to reclaim common spaces by clear the courtyard. They also create entrance into the building by taking away a ground floor unit, which is a wow to me. She also emphasis on the importance to maintain the sense of ownership and sense of identity. For the project, they introduce a diy rainhood system to settle the water dripping problems.
"To build a highrise only take three or four years, but to build a community takes much more than that. "~~~Lilian Tay
5th speaker Mrs Saleha Yusoff
Highrise Demand in Malaysia
It's about calculation of housing/condo to know the demand or things like that. I lose my concentration. sorry for that.
6th speaker Prof Dr Mohd Hamdan Ahmad
Ideas from Studio
This is yet another interesting sharing of insight. He pointed out how students always get lost in the design route, forgetting the initial intention/big idea. By showing some of the senior's work, we get to understand more of the sustainability approach lays within. Sam's boards are shown. hahaha!
Happy reading. Cheers!
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informative! thanks..
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