CONTENTS Thesis 001 / Shuzo Murakami The Global Environmental Problem and the Development of Low-Carton Buildings and Cities - The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years6 Thesis 002 / Botond Bognar A Global Vision - Nikken Sekkei's Longstanding to Commitment to Ecological Architecture 12 1 WORKS Kyoto State Guest House 20 POLA Museum of Art 30 Izumi Garden 38 Institute for Global Environmental Strategies 46 Islamic Development Bank Headquarters 54 Amami Hospital 62 JAXA Tsukuba Space Center, Headquarters Building 68 China Beijing TV Station 72 Seto City Shinanodai Elementary School 78 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature 84 Osaka Bar Association Building 88 Mokuzai Kaikan 94 Sony's Osaki new building Project 98 Cool City 102 National Museum of History in Vietnam 108 The Environmental Design Competition 112 Column 001Ryoichi Yamamoto Architecture that Embodies an Environmental Civilization 118 Column 002 Christoph Ingenhoven Creativity of Nikken Sekkei that Pursues Sustainable Design 120 Column 003 | Mark D. Levine Sustainable Architecture and Low-Energy Use in Non-Residential Buildings-Flow can they be made strongly mutually supportive? 122 2 I TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE LIGHT I Koichi Kaiho Lighting Design in the Age of Sustainability 130 Mirror Duct System Top Lights and High Side Lights Natural and Artificial Lighting BIM HEAT Yuichiro Kodama Heat Flow Design 140 Eco-Wails Thermal Oil Damper External Venetian Blind Exterior Thermal Insulation, Radiant Heating and Cooling WIND Shin-ichiTanabe Utilizing Wind in Sustainable Design 150 Double Skin Natural Ventilation Fluid Dynamics for Architectural Design DETAILS 158 WATER I Kazuhiro Otaka Confronting Water Shortages Globally 162 Water Terrace Use of Groundwater Conservation of the Ecosystem EARTH I Hiroshi Yoshino Architecture and the Utility of the Earth 170 Urban Greenery Rooftop Greenery In-ground Buildings Utilizing the Heat of the Earth CITY I Fumio Nohara Weaving a New Urban Fabric 180 Continuity of Greenery Wind Paths Area Management Urban Waterside Scenery Green Building History of Nikken Sekkei190 Skin Design 192 The Environmental Architecture of Nikken Sekkei-Design Values Transmitted Down in Our Corporate DNA | Ryo Togashi 194 Thesis 003 | Katashi Matsunawa Towards the Realization of ZEBs 196 Profile, Credits 204 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN JAPAN