Adding Affordability to Sustainability: A study of Environmentally Sustainable Design Elements in Housing in Malaysia - Couverture souple

Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad; Khan, Tareef Hayat

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3659483745 ISBN 13 : 9783659483745

Editeur : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Sustainability is the major concern in today’s world. In built environment, it has tremendous significance. Housing, as its major bulk, needs serious attention on all the three major pillars of sustainability. Turning to the environmental aspects, there are different active and passive design elements that can be incorporated with housing. However, it varies from context to context. This book tried to identify environmentally sustainable elements of housing in the hot-humid climate in Malaysia through extensive literature review. After that, it conducted field survey to find out the affordable ones among them which could address the big group of middle income people in the country. With that, the study tried to find out the economic feasibility of those environmentally sustainable elements. Categorizing them as user-controlled and designer-controlled elements, results showed that several user-controlled passive and active elements were not affordable, though they had been highly regarded as sustainable elements. At the end, the study highlighted the significance of adding affordability to sustainability so that it can eventually contribute to the biggest bulk in built environment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Seyed Mohammad Mousavi received Masters in Urban Design from the Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2013. He received his Bachelor degree in Architecture (B.Arch) from ILAM University,IRAN in 2010. His research interest includes Environmental aspects in Built forms.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3659483745
• ISBN 13: 9783659483745
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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