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Touch This Earth Lightly
Walls that breathe, roofs with glimpses of the sky, sliding windows with views of the vast Australian landscape, together with the smell of seasonal flowers and occasional sound of dripping rain, I can imagine myself relaxing and enjoying my cup of morning coffee in a veranda house designed by Glenn Murcutt. The Architect describes his […]
tagged: architect, architecture, books, climate, like
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Air Pollution
When I came home from badminton tonight, my mom told me worryingly to close the windows and turn on the air conditioning before going to bed. The weather isn’t too hot yet, it’s the air pollution! The air pollution index (api) topped off at 500 (severe) today mainly due to the devastating sandstorm from northern […]
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Greening My Studio – Part I
Walk into an electrical appliance store in HK and I’m sure you can easily find a vast amount of indoor air purifier options. This to me reflects how badly polluted the air in HK is. I don’t like the idea of electrical indoor air purifier. Since most electricity is generated from burning coal, those devices […]
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Sustainable Energy – without the hot air
Completed the recommended reading for a course. The book is great as it answered a lot of the questions I’ve always pondered. It’s free too! Looking at some of the graphs from the book, I realized that I’m now living more sustainably in HK compared to Canada. This is an unintended good thing. It kind […]
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Moving On From….. the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit
It was freezing cold at the BYOB forum on Sat. evening, I was shivering while listening to the panels discuss issues about climate change. What stirred me most was the way one of the panels reacted to a question from the floor. I can sense his passion and love of nature. Yes, how can we […]
tagged: architecture, climate, school, travel
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Bioclimatic Building Design
It was a bit of a relief after the last lecture of the Bioclimatic Building Design course yesterday. At the same time, I was actually a bit saddened to see our professor go. It was only 2 weeks ago when he came from New Zealand to teach us. At first, I found him to be […]
tagged: architecture, cherish, climate, hk, school
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PGBC Symposium 2009 (UC|UG)
It was my first time visiting the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park (HKSTP) this morning. The Professional Green Building Council Symposium 2009 on Urban Climate & Urban Greenery was unexpectedly interesting. I enjoy sitting in and listening to this type of conference that inspires me to think, but often times I just leave wondering […]
tagged: architecture, climate, environment, hk, like
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Autumnal Equinox
I just realized today that I had missed the Autumnal Equinox – an important moment that signifies the start of Autumn for people living in the Northern Hemisphere. It was actually just a couple of weeks ago that we were briefly taught on the topic of solar geometry. No wonder I didn’t feel too hot […]
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