Ecodesign

Ecodesign: a manual for ecological design

Design the built system's use of materials to minimise waste based on the analogy with the recycling properties of the ecosystem
Design for vertical integration
Design to reduce light and noise pollution of the ecosystems
Designing the built environment as the transient management of materials and energy input flows
Designing to conserve the use of non-renewable energy and material resources
Design for the management of outputs from the built environment and their integration with the natural enviroment
Design the built system over its life cycle from source to reintegration
Design using environmentally benign materials, furniture, fittings, equipment (FF&E) and products that can be continuously reused, recycled and reintegrated
Design to reduce the use of ecosystem and biospheric services and impacts on the shared global environment (systemic integration)
Reassess the overall design (i.e product, structure or infrastructure) in its totality for the level of environmental integration over its life cycle
Other considerations
What is the green aesthetic?
Issues of practice
The future of ecodesign

Design to reduce the consequences of the various modes of transportation and of the provision of access and vehicular parking for the designed system
Design to integrate with the wider planning context and urban infrastructure of the designed system
Design for improved internal comfort conditions (of the designed system as an enclosure)
Design to optimise all passive-mode (or bioclimatic design) options in the designed system
Design to optimise all mixed-mode options in the designed system
Design to optimise all full-mode options in the designed system
Design to optimise productive-mode options in the designed system
Design to optimise composite-mode options in the designed system
Design to internally integrate biomass with the designed system's inorganic mass (eg by means of internal landscaping, improved indoor air quality (IAQ) considerations, etc)
Design for wastewater and sewage treatment and recycling systems
Design for food production and independence

General premises and strategies
What is ecodesign?
The objective of ecodesign
The basis for ecodesign
Ecomimicry
The general law and theoretical basis for ecodesign
Design instructions
Interrogate the premises for the design
Differentiate whether the design is for a product (with no fixed abode or with a temporary abode) or for a structure or an infrastructure (both abode or aite specific)
Determine the level of environmental integration that can be achieved in the design: establishing specific practical limitations
Evaluate the ecological history of the site (for the designed system)
Inventory the designed system's ecosystem (site-specific design)
Delineate the designed system's boundary as a human-made or composite ecosystem in relation to the site's ecosystem
Design to balance the biotic and abiotic components of the designed system
Design to improve existing, and to create new ecological linkages
Design to reduce the heat-island effect of the built environment on the ecology of the locality

Published Great Britain : John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Language English

Material 499 p.

ISBN 0470997788 / 9780470997789

NA 2542.35 Y38 2008 C.1

TCDC Bangkok - General Collection

NA 2542.35 Y38 2008 C.2

TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack