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Vision Of The Green Future (interview with Ken Yeang on CNN’s Just Imagine)

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This video presents an interview with Ken Yeang who is a prolific Malaysian architect and writer best known for advancing green design and planning. He is varies in his eco-views from other green architects by his comprehensive ecological approach. During the interview, Yeang describes his vision of the future of buildings and how we might live in and organize our cities in 2020 to make them greener.

The way we live and organize our cities is critical to the successful future. Yeang has some big ideas of what skyscrapers of the future might look like. He believes that the nature is the best source of inspiration and invention. He says that nobody can invent better things than nature. He convinces that eighty percent of the impact on the building is coursed by its design. If we are able to anticipate the impact at the design stage we will reduce it to the minimum. In his opinion, this is the most important issue which all architects and designers should deal with. Otherwise, this millennium will be our last.

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Yeang convinces that architecture of the future should have the comprehensive and holistic view of the world. It ought to focus on the natural environment on the one hand but on the other hand it must consider this side of surroundings that was designed by humans. The connectivity between these two is essential for him. During the design of the building he does not look on it as on an object but as a side of the relationship with the nature. He called this method eco-nemesis – imitating the processes in the nature. One of the aspects of this method is learning how to draws energy from the sun.

Yeang, on the example of the skyscraper designed by him, explains more specific details of the eco-nemesis. He describes how many innovative technologies he used in that building to make it more efficient. He proudly treats this building as a human made ecosystem in a tower.

Yeang predicts that in the near future we will see not just new green buildings but also green cities, green environments, green masterplans, green products and green transportation which all will affect our everyday life. In his opinion, the only problem is about the awareness of importance of green politics. However, he believes that if more developed regions commit and educate people, the whole world’s green community will be created. This community will implement the green features and aspects not just in people’s lifestyles but also in businesses and industries in the way to create green future. That is the Yeang’s green dream.