Reclaiming Backlanes: Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814740869)

Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today -- lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?Reclaiming Backlanes presents design visions for future development of shophouse neighbourhoods, reprogramming backlanes into viable and high-quality common spaces, while improving energy efficiency of shophouses by up to 50%. These visions mark the convergence of studies in energy efficiency, pedestrian movement, historic building stock analysis and urban diversity by a multidisciplinary team.

Author: Marcel Bruelisauer
ISBN-10: 9814740861
ISBN-13: 9789814740869
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.10w x 1.00d