2013 BA Diploma Project Environmental Design
Topic: Building Upgrade for
Sustainability
Your environmental design shall assess and improve the sustainability levels of our own, newly realized D&I College building. This project will feature real-world environmental measure tools and expertise available to the thesis students in order to support their research and design work.
In a first phase, the new buildings are analyzed and assessed. Every student will choose about 2-3 of the following sustainability aspects that affect human comfort and health: daylight, natural ventilation, insulation, solar gains & shading, and sustainable (low-carbon) materials. These topics may be expanded into building energy use, thermal mass, passive energy features, renewable energy, night cooling, indoor air quality, artificial lighting, etc.
Furthermore, students will learn to use relevant software such as RELUX (daylight simulation), EcoTect (shading, building orientation, etc.), ENERGY PLUS (building energy simulation, ENERGY 10 (building energy calculation), etc.
Subsequently, each student will propose design improvements on the buildings, in order to improve the environmental, social and/or economic sustainability of the D&I building park. The task is not only to significantly improve the sustainability levels, but to simultaneously express these improvements in aesthetically pleasing appearances and in an educative fashion. The improved buildings shall express the innovative and sustainable spirit of the College of Design and Innovation.
The selected example below was accomplished by WEI YunDi:
Your environmental design shall assess and improve the sustainability levels of our own, newly realized D&I College building. This project will feature real-world environmental measure tools and expertise available to the thesis students in order to support their research and design work.
In a first phase, the new buildings are analyzed and assessed. Every student will choose about 2-3 of the following sustainability aspects that affect human comfort and health: daylight, natural ventilation, insulation, solar gains & shading, and sustainable (low-carbon) materials. These topics may be expanded into building energy use, thermal mass, passive energy features, renewable energy, night cooling, indoor air quality, artificial lighting, etc.
Furthermore, students will learn to use relevant software such as RELUX (daylight simulation), EcoTect (shading, building orientation, etc.), ENERGY PLUS (building energy simulation, ENERGY 10 (building energy calculation), etc.
Subsequently, each student will propose design improvements on the buildings, in order to improve the environmental, social and/or economic sustainability of the D&I building park. The task is not only to significantly improve the sustainability levels, but to simultaneously express these improvements in aesthetically pleasing appearances and in an educative fashion. The improved buildings shall express the innovative and sustainable spirit of the College of Design and Innovation.
The selected example below was accomplished by WEI YunDi:
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