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Roof Roof House by Ken Yeang: Vernacular Heritage

Ken Yeang designed the Roof Roof House in 1984 as a prototype for his bioclimatic design ideas. The house has a north-south orientation to protect interior spaces from the tropical sun. Its design takes advantage of prevailing winds to cool the microclimate, with four adjustable layers that control ventilation and lighting. The baffle roof shades the roof terrace and lower floors, reducing solar heat gain with angled surfaces. As an experimental design, it translates considerations of climate factors like sun, wind, and rain into a functional tropical architecture using its adjustable systems like a "valve" to filter the environment.

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Roof Roof House by Ken Yeang: Vernacular Heritage

Ken Yeang designed the Roof Roof House in 1984 as a prototype for his bioclimatic design ideas. The house has a north-south orientation to protect interior spaces from the tropical sun. Its design takes advantage of prevailing winds to cool the microclimate, with four adjustable layers that control ventilation and lighting. The baffle roof shades the roof terrace and lower floors, reducing solar heat gain with angled surfaces. As an experimental design, it translates considerations of climate factors like sun, wind, and rain into a functional tropical architecture using its adjustable systems like a "valve" to filter the environment.

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  • About the Architect
  • Roof Roof House
  • Theoretical Proposition
  • Plan
  • Section
  • Concept
  • Visuals

VERNACULAR HERITAGE

ROOF ROOF HOUSE


BY KEN YEANG
SUBMITTED BY- RISHANSH MISHRA
M.ARCH 1ST YEAR 2ND SEMESTER
F.O.A.P., A.K.T.U., LUCKNOW
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT
KEN YEANG (6 OCTOBER 1948) IS AN ARCHITECT,
ECOLOGIST, PLANNER AND AUTHOR FROM
MALAYSIA, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ECOLOGICAL
ARCHITECTURE AND ECO MASTERPLANS THAT
HAVE A DISTINCTIVE GREEN AESTHETIC. HE
PIONEERED AN ECOLOGY-BASED ARCHITECTURE
(SINCE 1971), WORKING ON THE THEORY AND
PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN. YEANG'S
HEADQUARTERS IS IN KUALA LUMPUR (MALAYSIA)
AS HAMZAH & YEANG, WITH OFFICES
IN LONDON (UK) AS LLEWELYN DAVIES KEN YEANG
LTD. AND BEIJING (CHINA) AS NORTH HAMZAH
YEANG ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING
COMPANY.
ROOF ROOF HOUSE
Year: 1984 The house is designed as a life-size working
Architectural style: Modernism prototype of the architect’s bioclimatic design
Building type: residential
Architect and planner: Kenneth Yeang and T.R. Hamzah ideas. Buildings are seen conceptually as “enclosure
Client: Kenneth Yeang systems that operate as environmental filters within
the landscape”.
The design is a systemic effort to use climatic factors
opportunistically to shape the building’s enclosure,
its configuration and spatial organization.
For instance, its north-south orientation protects
the major spaces from the tropical sun. The ground
floor living spaces face the East and the spaces open
out to the poolside, which takes advantage of the
prevailing SE to NW wind to modify the
microclimate. This prevailing wind is cooled as it
traverses over the pool water before entering the
living spaces whereupon four “moveable-layers” of
parts (i.e. sliding grilles and glass panels, solid
panels and adjustable blinds) are provided to
control the microclimate of the living spaces. 3
• The planning of the internal spaces follows a radial
configuration along an East-West axis and in this way
integrates the spaces between the building and the site
boundary walls as mini-courtyards.
• Like an open umbrella frame and working like a pair of
louvered sun-glasses, the house has a ‘baffle’ roof that
sweeps not only over the actual flat-roof of the first floor
but also over the pool-terrace area below. This secondary
roof shades the roof-terrace immediately underneath the
pool enhancing the cooling breezes into the lower
floors. The sectional design of the ‘baffle’ roof is angled
or shaped over the building to reduce the insolation over
the west and noon-day sun while letting in the morning
sun. This filtering device might in other building contexts
extend to the wall on the building. In addition to this
filter, there is a system of sliding grilles, glass-panels, solid
panels, and adjustable blinds which are the working
components of the valve analogy. Their adjustments by
the building’s users permits levels of environmental
articulation such as for privacy, ventilation, natural
lighting, space-usage, security and comfort.
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• The theoretical proposition is the view of
the building enclosure as a “valve” that
filters out undesired climatic elements (in
this instance, solar radiation) but filters in
that which is conducive (e.g.
ventilation). By comparison to other
vernacular architectural approaches that
respond to the local climate, the roof-roof
house differs in that it is intentionally
designed not as a passive structure but to
function as a system of working parts (and
hence its valve analogy).
• As an experiment, this house translates
such design considerations as solar
insolution, wind-direction and rainfall into
a tropical functionalism.

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PLAN

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SECTION

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CONCEPT

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THANK YOU
SUBMITTED BY- RISHANSH MISHRA
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ROOF ROOF HOUSE BY KEN YEANG SUBMITTED BY- RISHANSH MISHRA M.ARCH 1ST YEAR 2ND SEMESTER F.O.A.P., A.K.T.U., LUCKNOW VERNACUL
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT KEN YEANG (6 OCTOBER 1948) IS AN ARCHITECT, ECOLOGIST, PLANNER AND AUTHOR FROM MALAYSIA, BEST KNOWN FOR
ROOF ROOF HOUSE Year: 1984 Architectural style: Modernism Building type: residential Architect and planner: Kenneth Yeang and
• The planning of the internal spaces follows a radial configuration along an East-West axis and in this way integrates the
• The theoretical proposition is the view of the building enclosure as a “valve” that filters out undesired climatic elemen
PLAN 6
SECTION 7
8 CONCEPT
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THANK YOU SUBMITTED BY- RISHANSH MISHRA 1 0

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