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Nowhere is the world more urban than in Asia, home to 11 of the world’s 21
megacities of more than 10 million inhabitants each. The UN’s Department of
Economic and Social Affairs predicts an additional five megacities in Asia by
2025.
To slow this alarming trend, the Malaysian Green Building Index (GBI) – the
only green rating tool for the tropical zones besides Singapore’s GREENMARK –
was conceived. Officially launched May 21, 2009, the GBI incorporates The initiative "Schools:
international best practices in environmental design and performance, while Partners of the future" aims
considering Malaysia’s tropical climate, environmental and development to establish a network of at
context, and social needs. least 1,500 partner schools
spanning the globe.
Raising awareness for small things to become big
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“In a tropical climate like Malaysia, buildings
used to be built on an open floor plan and the A website offering lots of
air flow helped to keep them cool,” explains Ati information for international
Ariffin, Senior Lecturer at the University of students in Germany.
Malaya’s Department of Architecture whose
internationale-studierende.de
students are tasked with designing projects for
the Green ARC. “People looked outside for ideas
that were not always suited to their climate.
They wanted to wear long shirts and ties rather
than lighter clothing, and now we cannot live
without air conditioning.”
For the Goethe-Institut Malaysia, the Green ARC is part of their larger regional
outreach explains its director, Volker Wolf, “The city, the metropolis, the
enormous urban changes in world cities in recent years, all of this is a global
issue, a key issue for the German Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, the
German Academic Exchange Service and many other German intermediary
organizations.”
Ariffin, who’s traveled to Germany to see the use of green applications and
where she tells me she drove a concept car, admits her region lags behind in
this area, but says experts like her have the benefit of “looking to western
countries for assistance, but also to learn from their mistakes.”
She mentions rainwater harvesting as just one solution not effectively used -
Malaysia experiences frequent downpours which could be used to cool down
buildings instead of air conditioning. “If we as the experts are able to bring up
these ideas and move them forward, then the country will move forward as
well,” she believes. “But I tell my students that these ideas for the future must
come from them.”
Students have until November 5 to submit their entries, after which a jury of
experts – one each from Germany and France, an emeritus professor and a
representative from the GBI and REHDA – will judge the entries. An award
ceremony will be held December 3 and the winner will have his or her design
built by Sime Darby Property, which also constructed the prize-winning Idea
House prototype.
Angela Boskovitch
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