Ken Yeang is an architect, ecologist, planner and author from Malaysia, best known for his ecological architecture and ecomasterplans that have a distinctive green aesthetic.
21 Facts About Ken Yeang
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Ken Yeang pioneered an ecology-based architecture, working on the theory and practice of sustainable design.
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Ken Yeang attended courses on ecology, partial attendance in ecological landuse planning.
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Ken Yeang is registered as an architect with ARB, RIBA, PAM, and Singapore Institute of Architects.
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Ken Yeang has completed over 12 bioclimatic eco high-rise buildings, several thousand dwellings, over two million sq.
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Ken Yeang currently holds the Distinguished Plym Professorship chair.
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Ken Yeang served as board member of public listed MBf Property Unit Trust, the Malaysian Institute of Architects Education Fund, Advisory Board of the Government of Malaysia's Genovasi, President of the Malaysian Institute of Architects, Chairman ARCASIA, Vice-President Commonwealth Association of Architects and Council Member RIBA.
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Ken Yeang's key built work include the Roof-Roof House, Menara Mesiniaga, National Library Singapore, Solaris, Spire Edge Tower, DiGi Data Centre, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Extension, the Genome Research Building, Suasana Putrajaya.
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Ken Yeang's work adopts bioclimatic design as a subset to ecological design, providing for him an underlying armature for ecological design.
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Influences can be further found in Ken Yeang's later building and planning work.
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Ken Yeang applied the bioclimatic passive-mode principles to the high-rise tower typology.
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Ken Yeang sought ecologically benign ways to make this built form green and humane to inhabit.
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Ken Yeang's ideas for an urban park-in-the-sky in the high-rise building type is manifested as a 'vertical linear park' in his Solaris Building at 1-North Singapore that is a benchmark building in his green agenda for designing buildings as bioint gratin with nature.
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Ken Yeang worked on the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Extension as a green healthcare facility in a temperate climate.
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Ken Yeang's built work become more than just 'vertically-landscaped architecture' but are in effect constructed 'living systems'.
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Ken Yeang contends that an ecological architectural aesthetic should resemble a living system, looking natural, verdant and hirsute with nature and its processes visible in the bio-integration of the synthetic builtform's physical constituents with the native fauna, flora and the environmental biological processes of the land.
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Ken Yeang contends that much of existent architecture and masterplans that lay claim by other elsewhere to be sustainable are simply commonly-styled or iconically-styled builtforms stuffed internally with eco-engineering gadgetry and with occasional vegetation in its upper open courts.
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Ken Yeang contends that an eco-architecture and an eco-city should be 'alive' as a living system, analogous to a constructed ecosystem and not 'de-natured' nor look predominantly inorganic, artificial and synthetic.
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Ken Yeang adopts these assertions as the basis for his eco-architecture.
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Ken Yeang contends that eco-architecture and eco-masterplans demand their own identifiable 'style'.
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Ken Yeang sees the eco-architecture as designed like a 'constructed living system'.