In this book, leading architects and landscape architects provide their perspectives on the design of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts that can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability in future cities.
Dense and green: definitions.- The evolution of dense and green in Singapore.- Dense and green policies .- Dense and green planning processes.- Dense and green design processes .- Dense and green buildings.- Types of greenery.- Technical aspects and maintenance.- Dense and green challenges.- Dense and green benefits.- Integration of dense and green within other land uses.
Thomas Schroepfer is Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Principal Investigator of the Dense and Green Building Typologies project in the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC-FCL). He began his academic career at Harvard University where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture in 2004 and Associate Professor of Architecture in 2008. He was named Full Professor after joining SUTD in 2011, where he became Associate Head of Pillar of ASD, Co-Director of the SUTD-JTC I3 Centre and Director of the Universitys award-winning Advanced Architecture Laboratory. He held visiting professorships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and National University of Singapore. In 2015, he was appointed member of the SEC-FCL Steering Committee. His book publications have been translated into several languages and include Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture (Birkh?user 2016), Ecological Urban Architecture: Qualitative Approaches to Sustainability (Birkh?user 2012) and Materiall!
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