APAC's 10 Most Innovative Architecture Leaders to Follow in 2021

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APAC’s Most Innovative Architecture Leaders To Follow In 2021

Atsushi OMATSU President and CEO

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rchitecture is the process and product of planning, designing, and constructing other buildings or structures.

Architectural works in the physical form of buildings are often viewed as cultural symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their preserved architectural achievements. Traditions that began in prehistoric times have been used as cultural expressions of civilization on seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered an art form.

Architecture started as a rural and verbal architecture, from trial and error to successful production. The architecture of the ancient city was taken care of during the construction of religious buildings and structures that represented the political power of the rulers. Indian and Chinese architecture has influenced shapes throughout Asia, and Buddhist architecture, in particular, has taken on different local colors.

Modern architecture began after World War I as an avant-garde movement that sought to create a whole new style appropriate to the new social and economic order of the

quality of one depends on the quality of the other.

post-war period and aimed at meeting the needs of the middle and working class. In doing so, emphasis was placed on modern technologies, materials, and technical forms that pave the way for tall buildings. Many architects were disillusioned with modernism, which they viewed as unhistorical and anti-aesthetic, as postmodern and contemporary architecture emerged.

In our edition, APAC’s 10 Most Innovative Architecture Leaders to Follow in 2021, on the cover story we have Mr. Atushi OMATSU, President & CEO of Nikken Sekkei Co. Ltd. Attempting the unattempted has been a primary focus of the company. They are preferred by their clients due to the approach of welcoming challenges.

The rise of modern architecture began when the craft was replaced by machine building. Modern architects have developed designs that focus more on people’s way of life than on what they find beautiful. This architecture is not like sentimental styles of awakening. Instead, it’s innovative, experimental, and limited.

Urban planning is the process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns, and villages and planning to provide urban services to residents and visitors. Although these are topics that go beyond architecture, they cannot be understood as a completely separate field from research and design, because the

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We aim to cover all other topics which account for the betterment of our society.

We always try to come up with articles covering the latest trends and essential topics. We as a team had worked hard for our readers and introduced to you this edition. Hope you enjoy reading this piece of our efforts!

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COVER STORY

NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD

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ARTICLES

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Why choose Eco construction materials?

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3D concstruction on its way

PROFILES

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Ong & Ong PTE Ltd.

Design Forum Pvt Ltd

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City School of Architecture Asya Design Partner

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Shakticola Design & Build PWA Architects

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Creative Studio

Nextudio Architects

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Atsushi OMATSU President and CEO

Vision and mission As a professional service firm offering a range of disciplines, from architectural and urban design to research, planning, and consulting, we are often approached by clients who have ideas about what they want to see built. In response, we try to think about how we can contribute to society or address societal problems that need to be solved. That’s my thinking, anyway. Here at Nikken Sekkei, the approach of contributing to society is a fundamental principle. This concept accelerated in the 1990s with the collapse of the so-called “Bubble Economy” (a prolonged period of falling asset values, including stock and real estate markets, along with a proliferation of outstanding debt). This led to a shakeout of architectural projects, leaving only the really important jobs. Among these were railway station and railway-related projects, including TODs (Transit Oriented Developments), the know-how for which we embraced and now actively market overseas.

The fall in national tax revenues due to the recession caused a fall in funding for public projects, so we focused on privately funded jobs. Before the recession, there were many public-private joint ventures (the so-called “third sector” of the economy). These gave way to the rise of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) aimed at lessening the public financial burden. Current PPPs include the plans for remaking the Shibuya Station area of Tokyo where both private enterprises and public-use spaces are closely intertwined.

Why clients choose Nikken Sekkei Clients prefer Nikkei Sekkei because we undertake projects that others won’t do and/or have never done before. We are built in this way -- to embrace the cutting edge. We do not typically compete for jobs that any architecture design firm can do. Clients don’t hire us because we are the fastest or the most economical; it’s because we welcome challenges. Since our founding in 1900, attempting the unattempted has been a primary focus of the company.

Ongoing challenges faced while continuing to grow the company Deciding how to respond to the societal issues is a challenge. We apply our strength and ability into architecture, urban spaces, parks, and public spaces. These are “real,” tangible efforts in places, locations and facilities. It’s not like the exhilarating 3-D digital gaming world; there is no virtual reality to create in what we do.

Museum Tower Kyobashi - Harunori Noda (Gankohsha)

Describing services and completed projects In introducing our work and pitching ourselves, we try to demonstrate that it’s not really a matter of the size of the project per se, but the societal value of a project, large or small. Of course, there are many projects in which we aren’t the sole designer. Take, for example, the redesign of Ginza Station (in central Tokyo, completed in 2020). We were responsible for the station design itself, but remained conscious of the fact that our design influenced the surrounding areas and stations, too. Who and how were these areas going to be taken care of? This aspect of the industry, socalled “process design” (essentially, ensuring that all design components fit together), is also a critical element in responding to societal needs.

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Tokyo Midtown - Kawasumi Kobayashi Photo

Achievements and awards In an architecture firm, things are sharply defined in terms of who does what and who is responsible. But responding to pressing societal needs requires cooperation. What is really important in modern projects is to be able to overcome partisanship and form structures that allow for cooperation and proper management, etc. Teamwork is really important. As far as the urban development projects in which Nikken Sekkei is involved, I think we achieve pretty good collaboration. Of course, we have rivals in the industry, but when it comes to addressing the important societal issues of our times, these rivals are also our partners. Over the decades, the company has won hundreds of accolades for innovative, cutting-edge designs. One of its most internationally recognizable projects in recent years is the 634-meter tall TOKYO SKYTREE. Completed in 2012 for Tobu Railway Co., Ltd. and Tobu Tower Skytree Co., Ltd., it has become a national landmark. It has received widespread recognition, including the 2014 Building Contractors Society (BCS) award.

Over the past 12 months, and despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, Nikken Sekkei has continued to collect design awards. These include the Museum Tower Kyobashi (May, 2021), which won the MEP Engineering Award category at the 18th Annual CTBUH (Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat) Awards Program. The project features a lowenergy hybrid ventilation system that harnesses natural wind.

Earlier this year, DaiyaGate Ikebukuro was awarded Project of the Year - International at CIBSE - Building Performance Awards 2021, becoming the first Japanese project to receive the prize.

Tokyo Station Yaesu Development - Rainer Viertlböck

Four Nikken Sekkei projects were recognized at the MIPIM Asia Awards 2020 held in Hong Kong in January.

These include Museum Tower Kyobashi (SILVER for Best Infrastructure, Community & Civic Building), Shibuya Station Area Redevelopment (BRONZE for Best MixedUse Development), Daimaru Shinsaibashi Store Main Building (SILVER for Best Refurbished Building), and the aforementioned DaiyaGate Ikebukuro project (GOLD for Best Office Development). Recent high-profile international design competition wins include the architectural and urban planning development concept for Moscow’s Rizhsky Freight Yard (2021), a sprawling, mixed-use project for Russian Railways. In 2016, Nikken Sekkei won the renovation design competition for Camp Nou, the home stadium of FC Barcelona, in a joint proposal with a local firm.

Expectations for the future Among the major issues confronting the world such as environmental destruction, global warming, COVID-19, and natural disasters, we have chosen to concentrate our efforts on carbon neutrality and disaster prevention. This is where I think we can best contribute as a company. As an expert in my field, but also as an average person, I need to think in terms of how I live, what I eat, how I move from place to place, what I consume, etc., as it all adds up and points to the same issues at large.

Shibuya Station Area Redevelopment - Courtesy of SHIBUYA SCRAMBLE SQUARE

Personal struggle/journey As a university student, I was interested in the Daikanyama Hillside Terrace (a diverse complex of residences, shops, and offices in an upscale Tokyo neighborhood). Its concept to connect private and municipal public spaces particularly appealed to me. I understood that Nikken Sekkei worked on projects like this, so I was excited to do that there after graduation. Seven to eight years into my term at the company (around 1990), I had a chance to work on the SHIODOME SIO-SITE, and Saitama New Urban Center redevelopment projects.

Shiodome is near Ginza, where land values are very high. Big companies also bought property there, so designing public spaces, especially the underground walkway and sunken plaza, and making subways easily accessible took quite a bit of my energy.

On the other hand, Saitama New Urban Center (located about 36km northwest of Tokyo) was much bigger and full of public facilities. We had to come up with a “master plan” to determine how we could best contribute to the city. These experiences helped my confidence later on when I worked on projects such as Tokyo Station Yaesu Development and Tokyo Midtown.

Since our founding in 1900, attempting the unattempted has been a primary focus of the company.

Advice to emerging entrepreneurs When offering advice, I often invoke a quote from Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), honored as the father of microbiology: “Chance favors the prepared mind.” This doesn’t mean pouring endless hours into studying for tests and such, but rather, to have conviction and resolution in what you want to do. So, when you pick up a newspaper, for example, and you read something, you will spontaneously come to think of ways in which you can contribute with your own ideas. Many Japanese proverbs resonate in a similar way to Pasteur’s quote, but this one is especially good, I think.

TOKYO SKYTREE - ©TOKYO SKYTREE

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Ong & Ong PTE Ltd. Philosophy & Values

Future-Forward Culture

Driven by their philosophical values, an individual has the power to achieve the best in mind. ONG&ONG is a holistic consultancy excelling in infrastructure, education, commercial and high-density living. Their close comprehension of present-day living permits them to minister remarkable and moving conditions, setting another benchmark that sets ONG&ONG apart.

Magnanimity / Philanthropy is profoundly implanted in our way of life at ONG&ONG. We champion the improvement of ability for the design of local areas through Education.

Empowering new development, they see interruption as a culture by accepting the most recent AEC advancements.

The ONG&ONG Traveling Fellowship was set up in 1997 to give gifted students the freedom to seek after information on the assembled climate through autonomous travel. In 2000, the Ong Siew May Professorship was set up so famous professionals could address at the NUS Department of Architecture.

ONG&ONG supports the BCA-Industry Built Environment Scholarship and accomplices with Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Design to broaden the understudies’ plans past the homeroom.

The company states that “We Understand Asia with on-ground experiences from key urban communities across the district. Our manifestations are pervaded with neighborhood zing and worldwide encounters by a specific group devoted to your requirements, for an Experience Beyond”.

We are likewise committed to supporting the abilities of our staff through our own special corporate college, 360U. This converts into a far-reaching set-up of the Technology Driven genuine world and hands-on projects and openings for A basic piece of ONG&ONG’s 360 Solution, and each individual from ONG&ONG. in guaranteeing the uncompromising stance’s as an industry chief in plan advancement, we have inclined up concentration and obligation to BIM (Building Bounded for the Society & Environment Information Modeling) innovation, with center around Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) is an extraordinary Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Analysis methodology offering project groups arrangements that and Simulation, Computing and Automation and not just alter the manner in which they establish and Information Management. configuration assembled climate projects, tending to These are completely upheld by the Digital Technology long-standing efficiency challenges in the development office, determined to keep ONG&ONG Group at the business, yet in addition, conveys the more intelligent computerized front line. The division regulates the structures that networks of things to come interest. broad multi-disciplinary BIM use in all stages for each undertaking.

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little heed to project types: modern, retail, business, private, common, and so on.

The result-based focal point of IDD work processes empowers effective using time productively, simplicity of business, and maintainability of development with a potential for cost decrease.

To make it simple, “An Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) workflow enables seamless project execution across the value chain and embraces the Single Source of Truth (SSOT) concept by leveraging cloud-based technologies through a Common Data Environment (CDE) setup. In addition, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) processes are the key enablers that account for the success of IDD”.

The combining of digital design, fabrication, construction, asset delivery & management is the key appeal of Integrated Digital Delivery.

These kinds of advanced technologies are being utilized by ONG&ONG to create a sustainable architectural design that cherishes human wants and environmental needs.

☐ Website: https://www.ong-ong.com/ ☐ Industry: Architecture & Planning ☐ Company size: 501 - 1000 employees Ong Tze Boon Group Executive Chairman

☐ Headquarter: Singapore, Singapore ☐ Type: Privately Held ☐ Founded: 1972

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Design Forum Pvt Ltd

esign Forum established in the year 1985 and later incorporated as a company in the name of Design Forum India Private Limited (DFIPL) in the year 2005, is an Architectural and Structural designing firm with offices in Coimbatore and Bangalore. Design Forum has successfully handled projects of varying magnitudes which includes residences, housing, interior designing, large-scale industrial projects, institutions, hotels & commercial buildings, and other innovative projects.

professionals operating in perfect harmony towards providing innovative architectural and structural engineering solutions. They have a team that intently listens, understands, analyse, operates, and delivers solutions in a time-bound environment

The Team Design Forum India Private Limited has a team of 40 highly qualified and multi-disciplinary

Harsha Vardhan Tenkayal

Mission In our Endeavour to fulfill the expectations of our clients, we are committed to respect professional ethics and strive towards excellence in planning, designing, and providing technical support in creating their buildings with Aesthetic appeal, functional utility, and structural stability.

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Services Offered

☐ Tendering Services

Prominent and Leading service provider from ■ Assisting in shortlisting / selection of Contractors for the Tender.

Coimbatore, DFIPL offer the following services to their clients: ☐ Architectural Design ■ Preparation of detailed plans of the main building and other ancillary buildings with respect to their utility and zoning.

■ Preparation of Elevation drawing as per the decided concept.

■ Designing other allied services.

■ Structural Designing

■ Preparation of Contract document.

■ Preparation of necessary drawings to provide along with tender.

■ Preparation of comparative statement and assisting in the finalization of the Contractor ☐ Planning Services ■ Preparation of Master Plan ■ Preparation of Preliminary Schematic Drawings ■ Designing structural details ■ Designing all other allied buildings and services ☐ Project Management

■ Outline Specification ■ Preliminary Cost Estimation ■ Preparation of Approval drawings to the concerned authorities.

■ Inspection of work at the site with respect to quality & progress periodically.

■ Issuing of revised drawings, if there is variance at the site.

■ Checking the workmanship and sample of materials with respect to quality.

■ Checking the bills submitted by the contractor and certifying them for payment.

■ Periodically reporting the above to the management in order to take corrective steps if necessary.

☐ Website: https://www. studiodesignforum.com/ ☐ Company size: 11 – 25 employees ☐ Industry: Architecture Services ☐ Type: Privately Held ☐ Establishment: 1985

■ Taking corrective steps to achieve the target completion date and quality.

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City School of Architecture

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he City School of Architecture (CSA) with a background marked by more than 34 years, offers way in structural training towards a vocation in the structure business with an expansive based instructing and learning measure, established in genuine work on, making a pathway for understudies from getting a degree to turning into a Chartered Architect.

Its organized educational program, plan studios, hypothetical and innovation based schooling and the encounters of the act of design inside the learn and work, “sandwich idea” of the course, empowers understudies to shape working connections and build up direct connections with the development business.

Understudies study in a climate where basic reasoning, imagination and development will be enhanced in them prompting an expert vocation.

CSA is an authorize School of the Board of Architectural Education (BAE), of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA). It got The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) full accreditation for its Parts I and II Courses in January 2011 and was genuinely re-licensed in March 2016 for the following 5 Years. CSA understudies effectively finishing the Parts I and II Courses and Examinations will get the universally presumed exception of the RIBA Part I and II Professional capabilities.

This capability will empower understudies to apply for RIBA International Membership.

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VISION The City School of Architecture is optimistic in its quest to become one of the leading institutions in the South Asian Region, to educate and train Architects.

MISSION The Mission of the School remains to train students as qualified Architects with competitive and comprehensive knowledge of the profession, able to adapt to real and contemporary trends and needs and be professionally ethical and socially and environmentally responsible. Within this larger scope, the school also envisions to promote in its curriculum and ethos that would attract students from a wider cross section, including foreign students.

Courses Offered

Diploma in Architectural Studies

Higher Diploma in Architecture

Bachelor of Architecture Honors Degree

Master of Architecture and Environmental Design

Website: https://www.csacolombo.edu.lk/

Archt. Prof. Lal Balasuriya Head of School

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Green Cover is important for your city How it began?

verge of regaining the level which invaders and rulers like British government had on developing nations We need clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, like India, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Korea. It all silent environment for a good sleep. Couple of started when IT sector came in action which had the decades back, when the industrial revolution was power to revolutionize the entire world operations. rising at a rapid pace after the end of World War II, people residing in the villages was migrating towards IT sector employed many individuals which led to urban areas in search of jobs to live a peaceful rising areas of major urban cities around the globe. life. Many changes have been recorded since the It sector made lives better of consumers as well as establishment of UN council to maintain peace on developers. People started residing the downtown areas which started expanding at an unimaginable the planet. rate. New construction required forest lands which Economic prosperity was one of those important were keeping the city area cool and dust free for aspects which directly or indirectly impact our lives. a long time. Later, we started feeling the heat Manufacturing industry around the globe got a major which was termed as “global warming” and later role in nation building as every country was on the “climate change”.

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Why we need Green Cover in the city?

Beneficial to Health

In last decade which ended few months back, had recorded extreme heat waves, flash floods and many other natural disasters which clearly showcase, what we had done to our environment. It is not just about any one country, region, or continent, the whole earth is suffering due to man made changes to the nature. To narrow down the effects on the factors, people living in the city area are witnessing major illness, and heat strokes. The use of multiple devices, and change in the food habit, work culture are some of the causes why we need parks and mini forest areas in the middle of our residential areas.

There’s a ton of exploration about the advantages of green spaces to our bliss and prosperity. For instance: One investigation discovered that the presence of metropolitan green spaces might improve psychological well-being and prosperity,

While one more found that individuals who experienced childhood in regions with no green spaces had an expanded danger of creating uneasiness and sorrow. Different examinations show that individuals who approach green spaces have diminished feelings of anxiety and a decreased danger of fostering a Earth911 has mentioned on their website about the mental issue. green spaces and their impacts. They speak about the urban heat island effect, which is a growing challenge It is a sensitive topic to be taken seriously by the for cities. Structures made of asphalt, cement, and steel, authorities and the living population in those areas as like roads, pavement, and buildings accumulate a lot every life on the planet is equally important. of heat, raising city temperatures by 1⁰ to 7⁰ degrees Fahrenheit in daytime and 2⁰ to 5⁰ degrees Fahrenheit “Go Green, Stay Healthy” at night compared to rural areas. Urban areas, where these structures are highly concentrated and greenery is limited, become “islands” of higher temperatures relative Source: https://earth911.com/living-well-being/whyto outlying areas. These pockets of heat are referred to as our-cities-need-green-spaces/ “heat islands.” Heat islands can form under a variety of - By Parag Ahire conditions, including during the day or night, in small or large cities, in suburban areas, in northern or southern climates, and in any season.

Benefits of Green cover in City The good news is that green covers help curb the heath island effect. Plants and trees bring down the temperature through happening and by giving shade. Surfaces that are concealed by trees can be 20⁰-45⁰ degrees Fahrenheit (11-25°C) cooler than unshaded regions at top temperatures. What’s more, plant happening alone or in mix with concealing can assist with decreasing pinnacle summer temperatures by 2 degrees to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (1-5°C).

While lessening ozone harming substance emanations is of essential significance to alleviate environmental change, trees assume a fundamental part by retaining carbon dioxide and different contaminations from the air. What’s more, in spite of the fact that trees alone have an effect, one investigation discovered that “nature-based arrangements” — trees, bushes, and herbaceous plants developing with insignificant support — make a superior showing of filtering the air and controlling the environment.

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Asya Design Partner About

reasonable plan into the form climate.

Their portfolio incorporates tasks, all things considered, from the structural plan and worth designing of individual structures to the expert arranging of networks. The firm has imagined, planned and assembled projects that incorporate shopping center turns of events; extravagance homes; skyscraper private structures; corporate workplaces; business and blended use structures; banking and money foundations; public and private organizations; Reliably, ASYA Design Partner has been granted by strict structures; sporting and sports offices; gambling BCI Asia as one of the Top Ten Architectural Firms in clubs; scholarly structures; private local area the Philippines starting around 2005 up to introduce. improvements; and site arranging.

ASYA Design adapts to meet more situations, starting new precedent in the home market by adopting a new Right now, ASYA means to be at the front line of engineering and plan, in Asia first, then, at that point, strategy on all parts of building plan. on the planet with the arrangement of a total help The organization’s complexity in building innovation bundle from structural plan to project the board run applications and obligation to plan quality has brought by exceptionally capable experts resolved to plan about a portfolio that includes the absolute most greatness and maintainability. prominent demographic in the nation and abroad.

With project in Shanghai Taicang, Xiamen, Chengdu, Songjiang, Suzhou and generally in the Philippines, Website: https://asyadesign.com.ph/ ASYA has finished various structures, a proof of its plan greatness and administration.

Established: 1993 Architect Albert Yu has led the firm in its remarkable competence in the field of architectural design, providing clients with personalized service and the best architectural design system at the most economical construction cost. The achievement that ASYA has accomplished is a demonstration of its visionary chiefs, shrewd strategic approaches and certified confidence in the worth of the representative.

Subsequent to setting up an unmatched standing in the field of plan engineering over various years, ASYA is presently advocating for itself as one of the main structural practices at the cutting edge of joining 26

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his creative architectural practice was founded 25 years ago as a creative studio in Ahmedabad under the direction of Jignesh Patel and his team. Studio architectural styles have diversified in recent years, but are also widely used in high quality commercial, residential, and essential villas, as well as combined construction projects, 3D modeling, and CAD to aid both clients and architects by everyone. Project To work on it, we carefully think about each project from every angle that is reviewed based on the work done on all aspects of the design.

Website: https://www.creativestudioindia.com/

Jignesh Patel Principal Designer

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“Architecture is

an art & science of designing, erecting and superintending of buildings and structures for better living hood of mankind.”

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Nextudio Architects Architectural Planning The architect usually starts the work when the location, type and cost of the building are determined.

This site contains changes in the behavior of the natural environment which must be adapted to the invariable physical needs of man. Type is the general shape created by society to adapt to the particular use a building is required for. The cost includes the economics of land, labor and material, which must be adjusted to a certain amount.

Planning is therefore a process for assigning and ultimately coordinating environmental, land use and economic requirements. This process has both cultural and useful value as the architect inevitably influences how this social activity is planned.

Planning the environment The natural environment is both an obstacle and a resource, and the architect seeks his help and repels his attacks. For buildings to be habitable and comfortable, they must cope with the effects of heat, cold, light, air, moisture and drought and anticipate the devastating potential of fire, earthquake, flood and disease.

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The environmental control methods considered here are only practical aspects of planning. The architect has dealt with it in the context of expressive aspects. The arrangement and shape of buildings in relation to their location, the distribution of space within buildings and other planning tools discussed below are essential elements of architectural aesthetics.

Orientation Arrange the axes of buildings and its parts are a device to control the effects of the sun, wind and rain. The sun is normally in their period; It prefers the south and neglect of exposure to the north in the northern hemisphere buildings. Inside buildings determine the axis and put any amount of the amount of the sun that receives. The orientation in the air can be reviewed and reduced wind defects, rain and snow, because they are able to do in most climates. Immediate environmental properties also affect orientation: trees, land structures and other buildings create shadows, reduce or exacerbate winds, while water body bodies produce moisture and reflect the sun and reflect the sun.

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Why choose Eco-Construction materials?

Living in a healthy & safe environment is a dream of every middle class family. According to some reports and statistics published, developing countries have recorded high level of migration towards urban areas which is booming construction and real estate industry. Need for permanent house is rising and specially apartment house are high on demand as they are affordable for a family having a descent amount of monthly or annual income. Those multi-storey apartments are benefitting local municipal bodies by generating home tax and other forms of service tax as well.

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tax generation and builder lobby to earn huge profits.

But, this industry is becoming a threat to the regions as well. Construction industry, and to be specific residential construction industry is one of the largest Green House Gas (GHG) emitter in the world. Data published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in association with International Energy Agency (IEA) in the Global Status Report for Building and Construction 2019, states that, “The buildings and construction sector globally is showing an increase in both emissions and energy use, limited progress on new and existing policies, and a further slowdown in energy-efficiency investment growth. More action is therefore needed to curb emissions and deliver a low-carbon, sustainable built environment”.

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Building requires energy and water while construction and after it is ready for use. This has indirect ecological impacts which are seen later in the background.

Building construction and operations accounted for the largest share of both global final energy use (36%) and energy related CO2 emissions (39%) in 2018.

What needs to be done?

Impact on Who & How?

☐ Recycled Plastic

Contamination is an issue that the development business can’t disregard. The principle kinds of contamination you should know about are air, water, soil, and noise.

In the event that you don’t set up careful steps to oversee hurtful waste, it can straightforwardly influence site workers and individuals living close by. This incorporates making irreversible harm their wellbeing, with an unsettling join among toxins and disease.

Air contamination alludes to man-made outflows that are delivered into the environment. Helpless air quality is a worldwide wellbeing risk, liable for around 4.2 million unexpected losses in 2016. Further, air contamination contributes fundamentally to the warming of the planet, and hence to environmental change.

In the changing environmental balance and extreme climate conditions it is better to have an eco-friendly house in order to curb heat island issue, and have a naturally insulated cool or warm house walls. The Most Eco-friendly Construction Materials are: ☐ Recycled Steel ☐ Timber Crete ☐ Recycled Rubber ☐ Recycled Paper ☐ Bamboo ☐ Ash Crete ☐ Recycled or Sustainable Wood ☐ Cob ☐ Ferrock ☐ Broken or reusable glass

Other than above mentioned materials, construction waste material recycling should be promoted by the As development exercises are an enormous supporter government to reduce the waste generated and lying of air contamination, associations inside the area have down on the ground. It will not just help to reduce the a common obligation to restrict the sum they produce. waste but also help to reduce the demand for new raw In this way, you’ll need to have a consciousness of the materials which are not so sustainable. outflows your work exercises make and play it safe to Down the line, these are just few things we’ve mentioned. restrict the unsafe effect.

There’s lot more happening in the construction industry and it should be changed in the coming future to have a sustainable lifestyle.

- By Parag Ahire

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Shakticola Design & Build transparency and open communication. We strive for fair relationships and clear and accessible processes, and the Shakticola model provides our clients with a clear view of project milestones, costs and expected results. Our success is measured by the value we give to our projects. Our design team is dynamic, versatile and detail-oriented. A family of like-minded young people who care about what they do and how they do it. ☐ Feasibility studies of projects / locations If you have land or are planning to buy land, we can assess the suitability of your proposed project and prepare a construction budget to assess the feasibility of your proposal. We can also design a site layout to see how best to use a site. ☐ Report the status of existing buildings

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If you are planning to buy a property, we can examine it and prepare a status report.

hakticola is a future-oriented, full-service design ☐ Pre-contractual documents and construction project management company Although construction in Sri Lanka is still based in Galle, Sri Lanka. We specialize in relatively good value for money, it is advisable residential, resort and hotel projects. Our approach to have solid contractual documents to reduce to project design and management is based on construction risks.

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Shakticola offers the following pre-contractual services.

Trevor Morgan Director

■ Creating Complete Drawing Packages - If the drawing has been created by an outside designer who is not familiar with building in Sri Lanka, or if you are just in the concept phase, we can create complete drawing packages to draw your complete drawing.

■ Top Building Permits and Required Permits - We can prepare building permit plans and do any work necessary to get your building permit.

■ Professional Team Jobs - Most projects in Sri Lanka will require you to have a surveyor, civil engineer, MEP engineer, and a surveyor.

■ Bidding Management - To ensure you get the best possible price from contractors, it is often best to use a competitive bidding process to award the contract.

Website: https://www.shakticola.com/

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PWA Architects PWA Architects We begin the design process by fully understanding the location, context and needs of the client. The concept phase takes these factors into account when recognizing and developing the design. The client’s aesthetic, functional and programmatic requirements are carefully considered in executing the precise design process.

In addition to the detailed design process, it is important to work with the PWA gauge to ensure the designs stay on customer budget. A competent PWA team of architects and designers then carries out the construction documentation process.

Coordination with all relevant consultants, project management and control, quality control and execution under cost and time pressure is part of the construction management process.

At PWA, we believe in sustainable design solutions that have a positive impact on the environment, society and the economy. We use sustainable initiatives in architecture and interior design, MEP design, resources and construction phases to ensure a livable, comfortable, safe and constructively built environment. We support renovation projects, adapt existing buildings where possible and work on a number of projects with our environmentally conscious customers.

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projects that have a positive impact on the community. We offer architecture students internship opportunities and enable them to gain practical experience under the guidance of our senior team.

We also work with various local artists when working on interior components for projects. This allows us to promote and promote local artists while managing beautiful spaces for our clients.

Design Services by PWA We offer comprehensive consulting services with a multidisciplinary team of specialists. Our services include project appraisal, comprehensive design services, solutions and project management.

We offer consortium services that we can integrate internally or on a project basis and work together with renowned consultants for quantification, project management, structural solutions and MEPs. We have benefited greatly from working with some of the world famous architects like Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, MVRDV and SCDA. In addition, we work as registry architects and offer local expertise, advice and coordination in cooperation with internationally renowned architecture firms who play the role of design architect. As a company, we believe in creating sustainable solutions for as many of our design projects as possible.

Website: https://www.pwa.lk/

PHILIP WEERARATNE PRINCIPAL

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Airmas Asri

the Pramban crown is interpreted through an Art Deco design, making the crown tower the center of the city.

The details of this crown are related to the batik style.

This is an application of “Java Ancient” in tower design.

The shape of the Java Temple has been beautifully altered to create a shape that matches the body of the There are meanings in the world. Then the body building and the base of the building. experiences the things around it. Perception is based on the relationship between meaningful objects in this Contextually Iconic world while maintaining a certain distance from the object, which enables us to study, combine, analyze and One of Airmas Asri’s works that expresses the concept of question. This gives the same quality of visualization. textile iconography is the Talavera Office Park. Located Here is a question: What meaning determines our between TB Simatupang Road and Pangeran Antasari understanding of Airmas Asri? This article attempts Street, next to the busy Jakarta Outer Road, it is a symbol to examine the various ways, assumptions, and of the area. In relation to the situation in the region in reasons for understanding the importance of doing 2005 (when the project started), which was not now overcrowded, this plan gives the courage to develop business in a company. the region. The Talavera Office Park is a neighborhood landmark that has successfully created an identity for Perception of Airmas Asri this neighborhood. The design of the building has an In Indonesian architecture, the roof is the crown and “aerodynamic” quality in that it is visible to people head of a building. For example, traditional Javanese in fast cars. irmas Asri’s works can be seen as an important part of Indonesia’s architectural history. Trying to understand his work leads us to different perceptions of a particular style, classification, shape and personality. In the end, a spatial image of the diversity of the company’s architecture business is created.

architecture has five roof shapes: Panggang Pe, Kampung, Limasan, Joglo and Tajug. Each number Website: https://www.airmasasri.com/ represents the upper limit of social status. The crown above the building - can be part of the spatial legitimacy that gives it a special meaning.

The crown is also evident in modern Airmas works such as The Pakubuwono View. Although there does not seem to be a connection between this work, it is inspired by the Prambanan temple complex. Similar to the temple, the Pakubuwono facade is designed as a head (crown), body and legs. The Pakubuwono View crown itself is based on the Pramban crown, but here 38

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Jusuf Setiadi Principal

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3D concstruction on its way 3D Printing on the move

3D printing have increased to the point that some 3D printing processes are considered viable as an 3D printers were in the trial stage with ability to build industrial-production technology, whereby the term small scale structures or prototypes of a particular additive manufacturing can be used synonymously design with given a command to it by a computer with 3D printing. software CAD (Computer Aided Design). 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a One of the key advantages of 3D printing is the three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a ability to produce very complex shapes or geometries digital 3D model. The term “3D printing” can refer to that would be otherwise impossible to construct by a variety of processes in which material is deposited, hand, including hollow parts or parts with internal joined or solidified under computer control to create truss structures to reduce weight. Fused deposition a three-dimensional object, with material being modeling (FDM), which uses a continuous filament added together (such as plastics, liquids or powder of a thermoplastic material, is the most common 3D grains being fused together), typically layer by layer. printing process in use as of 2020.

In the 1980s, 3D printing techniques were considered suitable only for the production of functional or 3D Construction/Printing aesthetic prototypes, and a more appropriate term for it at the time was rapid prototyping. As of 2019, 3D construction/Printing refers to various the precision, repeatability, and material range of technologies that use 3D printing as a core method 40

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to fabricate buildings or construction components.

Alternative terms are also in use, such as additive construction, Autonomous Robotic Construction System (ARCS), Large Scale Additive Manufacturing (LSAM), or Freeform Construction (FC).

There are an assortment of 3D printing strategies utilized at development scale, with the principle ones being expulsion (concrete/cement, wax, froth, polymers), powder holding (polymer security, receptive security, sintering), and added substance welding. 3D printing at a development scale will include a wide assortment of uses inside the private, business, modern and public areas. Expected benefits of these robotization advances incorporate quicker development, lower costs, simplicity of development, empowering DIY development, expanded intricacy or potentially precision, more prominent mix of capacity, and less waste created.

As per our research and information collected, few countries in the list have at least their first 3D printed home are: The Netherlands, India, the USA, Malawi, Germany, Mexico, and UAE. It is still in trial & error stage with the capacity to build one storey house or apartment. The machines and the concrete or the construction material used in it are also in the trial stage and scientists with the integration of civil engineers and construction material experts are trying their best to create a material with having the capacity to withstand all the required tests and requirements.

According to the data mentioned by the World Economic Forum (WEF) the 3D home construction industry was valuated at $3million back in 2019 and now it is projected to be $1.6 Billion by 2024.

Supporters of this industry say that “it could boost the world’s supply of affordable housing”.

A number projects has been demonstrated across What are your views on 3D printed house? Would various cities in each continent having at least one you like to live in new construction form of house? successful building standing strong on the field.

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