scholarly journals Integrated design strategies for envelope skins: user-driven adaptive design solutions to improve sustainability and energy efficiency in social housing

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Cattani ◽  
A. Ferrante ◽  
R. Gulli
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Adaptive Design ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Solutions

scholarly journals Physical and Numerical Analysis of Bioclimatic Strategies Implemented on Social Housing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Augusto Real-Ramirez ◽  
Jose Maria Velazquez-Soto ◽  
Rosalba Orduña-Martinez ◽  
Jesus Isidro Gonzalez-Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Transient State ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Bioclimatic Design ◽  
Physical Measurements ◽  
Similar Criterion ◽  
Economic Technology ◽  
Low Speed Wind Tunnel ◽  
Performance Research

This paper presents the results of aerodynamical performance research focused on maintaining the thermal comfort and increasing the energy efficiency of a typical social housing unit located in a high-density urban area. Bioclimatic design strategies are used to develop a sustainable and economic technology in existing housing clusters in Mexico City. A full-scale prototype, built on campus facilities, was used to study the flow conditions around the design. All scaled prototypes implement similar criterion. Furthermore, a scaled prototype is evaluated within a low speed wind tunnel installation. Additionally, numerical simulations were performed at transient state based on previous physical measurements and historical local climatic conditions to determine preferable modifications.

scholarly journals Transition towards Energy Efficiency: Developing the Nigerian Building Energy Efficiency Code

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Geissler ◽  
Doris Österreicher ◽  
Ene Macharm
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Adaptive Design ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Building Energy Efficiency ◽  
To Come ◽  
Energy Efficiency Policies ◽  
Objective Being

In Nigeria, there is an estimated deficit of 17 million housing units. Power supply is insufficient, and the electricity supply for about 60 million Nigerians relies on private generators, causing noise, pollution, and high expenditures for mainly imported fuel. Altogether, current challenges clearly demonstrate the need for effective energy efficiency policies targeting also the building sector. The Nigerian Energy Support Program began in 2013, among others, with the objective being to support the Nigerian Government in developing the Nigerian Building Energy Efficiency Code. This paper presents two preparatory activities carried out in order to come up with suggestions for a legal framework well suited for the situation on the ground: the Case Study Building Analysis carried out in collaboration with a Nigerian developer and the Nigerian Building Energy Efficiency Guideline, elaborated together with stakeholders. The results of preparatory activities pointed out that the code must put emphasis on climate adaptive design and must define requirements and procedures in a clear and simple way to allow for effective enforcement. Only then can energy-efficient mass housing be feasible in Nigeria. The paper concludes with a description of the Nigerian Building Energy Efficiency Code (BEEC), officially approved and launched by the Federal Minister of Power, Works and Housing on 29 August 2017.

Energy Design by Evolution: Applying Evolutionary Computing to Energy Efficient Architectural Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 899 ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Bernhard Sommer ◽  
Ulrich Pont
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Evolutionary Computing ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Energy Efficient Buildings ◽  
Optimum Solution

In this paper, the authors want to show a method that allows customizing energy efficient buildings to the very task and to the very site by linking environmental data and design strategies through algorithmic processes. An optimum solution for the energy efficiency of a building can then be found by running an evolutionary solver.

scholarly journals Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7734
Author(s):  
Álvaro López-Escamilla ◽  
Rafael Herrera-Limones ◽  
Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel Torres-García
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
World Population ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Solar Decathlon ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The AURA 1.0 prototype is a sustainable social housing proposal, designed by the University of Seville and built for the first Latin American edition of the prestigious Solar Decathlon competition. Different conditioning strategies were integrated into this prototype, optimized for a tropical climate, and focused on contributing positively to the health of the most humble people in society. In this moment, in which a large part of the world population is confined to their homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have the opportunity (and the obligation) to reconsider the relationship between architecture and medicine or in other words, between the daily human habitat and health. For this reason, this analysis of aspects derived from the interior conditioning of the homes is carried out. The main objective of the Aura proposal is to be able to extract data through a housing monitoring system, which allows us to transfer some design strategies to the society to which is a case study, in order to promote environmental comfort and, therefore, people’s health. The AURA 1.0 prototype develops flexible and adaptable living spaces, with a high environmental quality, in order to maintain the variables of temperature, relative humidity and natural lighting within a range of comfort required by the rules of the event. To achieve this end, the prototype develops an architectural proposal that combines passive and active conditioning strategies, using construction qualities and typical costs of social housing. These strategies allowed the project to achieve the first prize in the Comfort Conditions test. So, this paper presents an appropriate and tested solution that can satisfy comfortability and health of residents who live in social housing while maintaining low energy consumption.

The Research on the Sustainable Development of Chinese Rural Cultural Architecture

2011 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
Shu Ting Li ◽  
Kun Zhou ◽  
Jia Ping Liu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Rural Teaching ◽  
Regional Design

In the new rural construction of our country, the key jobs are to increase the cultural facilities at rural and to improve the cultural level of rural residents. But with the accelerating process of urbanization and the start of rural primary schools "closing and merging schools”, the rural settlement is showing a rapid declining trend. This article profits from the regional design concept and method in Taiwan rural education construction and summarizes the successful experiences on the functional constitution ways, campus openness, ecology design strategies as well as regional design methods. With the present development situation of our rural areas, the author makes an integrated design of rural teaching rooms and other cultural and educational facilities. And then proposed a concept of "Rural Cultural Center" to support the heritage of local traditional culture, and thus to promote the comprehensive development of rural areas.

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