A parametric approach to the bioclimatic design of large scale projects: The case of a student housing complex

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 24-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelos Chronis ◽  
Katherine A. Liapi ◽  
Ioannis Sibetheros
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Parametric Approach ◽  
Bioclimatic Design ◽  
Housing Complex

Understanding the Impact of Occupancy Trends in Sustainable Housing Designs

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Piacenza ◽  
Salvador Mayoral ◽  
Sean Lin ◽  
Lauren Won ◽  
Xava Grooms
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Energy Usage ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Leed Certification ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Course Scheduling ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
The Impact

As sustainable building mandates become more prevalent in new commercial buildings, it is a challenge to create a broad, one-size-fits-all certification process. While designers can estimate energy usage with computation tools such as model based design, anticipating the post occupancy usage is more difficult. Understanding energy usage trends is especially complicated in university student housing buildings, where occupancy varies significantly as a function of enrollment and course scheduling. This research explores the effect of student occupancy on both predicted and actual energy usage in a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certified student housing complex. A case study is presented from the California State University Fullerton (CSUF) campus, and examines diversity factor, defined as a building’s instantaneous energy usage as a percentage of the maximum allowable usage during a period of time, trends throughout the academic year. The CSUF case diversity factor is compared to the diversity factor used in predictive models for obtaining LEED certification, and the mandates that govern the models (e.g., ASHRAE 90.1). The results of the analysis show the benefits of considering post occupancy usage in sustainable building designs, and recommendations are presented for creating unique and application based computational models, early in the design process. This research has broad applications, and can extend to sustainable building design in other organizations, whose operational schedule falls outside of current prediction methods for sustainability mandates.

scholarly journals Studentification in Bloemfontein, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (31) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Ackermann ◽  
Gustav Visser
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Student Enrolment ◽  
Negative Impacts

Abstract Studentification is a global phenomenon that has been prominent in urban geographical discourse since the large-scale expansion of higher education in the early 1990s. In many developed and developing world countries, expansion in student enrolment has outstripped the ability of institutions of higher learning to provide adequate accommodation. Similar trends have been recorded in South Africa. The task of this paper is to investigate studentification as experienced in one of South Africa’s secondary cities. The paper draws attention to the economic, socio-cultural, and physical characteristics of this form of student housing on host locations. It is argued that studentification holds both positive and negative impacts for the host communities of Bloemfontein. Finally, it is suggested that studentification in South Africa requires greater research attention.

Understanding the Importance of Post Occupancy Usage Trends During Concept-Stage Sustainable Building Design

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Piacenza ◽  
Salvador Mayoral ◽  
Bahaa Albarhami ◽  
Sean Lin
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Energy Usage ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
The Impact

As sustainable building mandates become more prevalent in new commercial and mixed use buildings, it is a challenge to create a broad, one-size-fits-all certification process. While designers can estimate energy usage with computational tools such as model based design, anticipating the post occupancy usage is more challenging. Understanding and predicting energy usage trends is especially complicated in unique mixed use building applications, such as university student housing buildings, where occupancy varies significantly as a function of enrollment, course scheduling, and student study habits. This research explores a computational modeling approach used to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification for a student housing complex design. A case study is presented from the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) campus, and examines the impact of post occupancy building usage trends, and diversity factor, defined as a building’s instantaneous energy usage normalized by the maximum allowable usage, on energy use estimates. The CSUF case model, which was originally created using EnergySoft’s EnergyPro 5 software, is examined. An annual predictive energy use comparison is performed in EnergyPro 5 using general building design mandates (i.e., ASHRAE 90.1, California Title 24), and CSUF case specific building usage details (e.g., student scheduling, diversity factor). In addition, the energy usage estimates of these two predictive models are compared to the actual usage data collected during the 2014 academic year. The results of this comparison show the benefits of considering post occupancy usage, and recommendations are presented for creating unique and application based computational models, early in the design process. This research has broad applications, and can extend to sustainable building design in other organizations, whose operational schedule falls outside of current prediction methods for sustainability mandates.

Full-Parameter Approach for the Intake Port Design of a Four-Valve Direct-Injection Gasoline Engine

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Cui ◽  
Tianyou Wang ◽  
Zhen Lu ◽  
Ming Jia ◽  
Yanzhe Sun
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Intensity Change ◽  
Intake Port ◽  
Structure Parameters ◽  
Parametric Approach ◽  
Port Design

The design of the intake port plays a critical role in the development of modern internal combustion (IC) engines. The traditional method of the intake port design is a time-consuming process including a huge amount of tests and the production of core box. Compared with the traditional methods, parametric approach attracts increasing attentions by virtue of its high-efficiency, traceability, and flexibility. Based on a tangential port model created by a three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design (cad) software, a new tangential port can be quickly generated with different sets of structure parameters, then computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was employed to explore the influence of structure parameters on the intake port performance. The results show that the flow capacity and the large-scale vortex intensity change regularly with the variations of structure parameters. Finally, the parametric approach was employed to design the intake port of a production four-valve direct-injection (DI) gasoline engine, and the good applicability this approach is well illustrated.

Influence of Familiarity on Responses to Visual Qualities of Neighborhoods

1980 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 635-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack L. Nasar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Complexity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Neighborhood Environments ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
Perceived Complexity ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between familiarity with neighborhood environments and preference for them. Color photographs, eight each from two married student housing complex neighborhoods, were presented to residents of each complex to classify in terms of pleasantness, interestingness and familiarity, χ2 tests were used to analyze the data. As was expected, residents evaluated scenes proximate to them as more familiar than distant scenes. All respondents evaluated one neighborhood as more pleasant and more interesting than the other. Nevertheless, evaluations were also influenced by familiarity such that familiarity was related to a decrement in interest and an increment in pleasantness. Familiarity's likely association with a decrease in perceived complexity may well have produced less interest. On the other hand, it is likely that the hedonic response associated with familiarity produced an increment in rated pleasantness. Thus, the positive feelings for familiarity overpowered the negative affect associated with decreased environmental complexity.

Incremental Urban and Dwelling Proposals in Guanajuato, Mexico

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Andrea Martin-Chavez ◽  
Jorge Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Tissue Model ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Bioclimatic Design ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
The One ◽  
Tissue Characteristics

An International Competition of Architecture, Urban Development and Sustainable Housing, was held in Mexico in 2001. The aim of the contest was to create a vanguard and imaginative urban and architectural design that could accommodate the local regulation, the concept of sustainability and bioclimatic design. The proposed site is located within Guanajuato city’s periphery From a critic review of the finalist projects we concluded that although they were very innovative in bioclimatic design they maintained the concept of prototype at the unit level and groups of prototypes layout in the plot at the urban level. We decided to take the same theme as an academic exercise for the following reasons: • The opportunity to design under the same rules but changing the concept of a traditional mass housing complex to a slice of city that transforms itself in time with incremental dwellings. • The city of Guanajuato is a colonial city very important for its history, cultural activity and architecture. The urban layout adapts to its rugged surface, which is very similar to the one of the given site. • The contest program had a similar objective to that of the academic program of the last year of architecture in our University. From the analysis of Guanajuato City thematic and non thematic elements of the urban tissue and with the aid of the Tissue Model method, students made the urban proposals. The unit proposals were designed with Open Building in mind instead of designing the required prototypes. This article will focus on the tissue model methodology applied, first to formulate the tissue characteristics of downtown Guanajuato, then to develop the urban layout of the new housing complex and finally to develop the agreement documents for the urban design. Some examples of different final urban and support design will be given.

Circulation Space as “The Fourth Place” in a Private Student Housing Complex in Depok, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Joko Adianto ◽  
Rossa Turpuk Gabe ◽  
Dwiki Febri Ristanto ◽  
Antony Sihombing
Keyword(s):  
Student Housing ◽  
Housing Complex
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