Design and Technological Applications in Sustainable Architecture: The perspective of China, Japan, Singapore and Thailand

242 Pages·2021·11.539 MB·English

by  Stephen Siu Yu Lau, Junjie Li, Shimeng Hao, Shuai Lu

Strategies for Sustainability
Subseries: Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
Stephen Siu Yu Lau
Junjie Li
Shimeng Hao
Shuai Lu   Editors
Design and
Technological
Applications
in Sustainable
Architecture
The perspective of China, Japan,
Singapore and Thailand
Strategies for Sustainability
Subseries: Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
Series Editors
Rodrigo Lozano
Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development
University of Gävle
Gävle, Gävleborgs Län, Sweden
Angela Carpenter
Faculty of Engineering and Environment
University of Gävle
Gävle, Sweden
Strategies for Sustainability
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Lifestyle changes
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The role of scientific analysis in decision-making
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Stephen Siu Yu Lau • Junjie Li
Shimeng Hao • Shuai Lu
Editors
Design and Technological
Applications in Sustainable
Architecture
The perspective of China, Japan, Singapore
and Thailand
Editors
Stephen Siu Yu Lau Junjie Li
Shenzhen University Beijing Jiaotong University
Guangdong, China Beijing, China
Shimeng Hao Shuai Lu
Beijing University of Civil Engineering University of Sydney
and Architecture Darlington, NSW, Australia
Beijing, China
ISSN 2212-5450 ISSN 2452-1582 (electronic)
Strategies for Sustainability
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Preface
The arrival of the Anthropocene era (Crutzen & Stoermer, 2000) has had a signifi-
cant impact on everyone on Earth. The agenda for Anthropocene as a recognized
entry to Earth’s history by the scientific (geographic) community recognizes those
responsibilities of human activities, their adverse impacts on climate change and
ultimately, the equilibrium of every life form and species on this Planet. More
recently, numerous research communities have linked the cause and damage of
Earth’s environment and lifeforms to the building and construction sector. The
United Nations and other major international bodies have attributed global respon-
sibility to the building and construction industry at as much as 30 percent, if not
higher. In this context, members of the industry have been called upon to examine
the specific role of architecture and building construction in order to alleviate envi-
ronmental depletion. In the recent decade, the theme of sustainable or regenerative
design has continued to capture market attention and stirred immense interests and
provoked constructive debates and discussions among both the profession and aca-
demia as well as other stakeholders. Technology-based architectural design strate-
gies and paradigms, in broad-ranching related topics, for example, climate
adaptability and responsiveness, heat island, biodiversity, ecological, and bio-
restoration, evolved at fast pace and accumulated a body of knowledge that serves
as beacon for practitioners and researchers in building design, construction, usage,
operation, and maintenance. The scope of such growing knowledge entails a cross-
disciplinary fermentation as it encompasses those interdisciplinary aspects of social,
economic, humanistic, and environmental perspectives beyond the usual realm of
engineering and design. In essence, it covers a broad scale – ranging from the scale
of urban planning to building and finally down to the building detail. In essence, the
surge for new knowledge has driven authors to join forces together, to make avail-
able frontier research and practicum for knowledge gathering, synthesis, and dis-
semination. More recently, the Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
Group SPSD based in Kanazawa, Japan, has operated a collaborative platform for
the international research community. It has organized a conference in Singapore
where researchers have come together for deliberation, sharing, and debating.
Majority of the topics in this book have been selected from this event. This book is
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a forum for the testing of new and old ideas, mostly in the field of architecture and
construction in a host of countries – China, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand, which
share similar but varied cultural and environmental features. From these geographic
boundaries, the book invites scholars and practitioners of architecture, engineering,
landscaping, and planning as well as biologist and social scientists interested in the
built environment, from all over the world, to come together on the topic of climate
responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology. The topics are
extended from urban planning and building design to performance evaluation.
From the Editorial Team: LAU, LI, LV, and HAO
Guangdong, China Stephen Siu Yu Lau
Beijing, China Junjie Li
Beijing, China Shimeng Hao
Darlington, NSW, Australia Shuai Lu
Contents
1 Introduction – On the Definition and Measure of Sustainability . . . . 1
Stephen Siu Yu Lau
Part I City Ecological Restoration
2 Study on Mechanism of Climate Response and Ecological
Restoration in High-Density Urban Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Dexuan Song and Yi Liu
3 Urban Public Landscape Design Under the Guidance of
Sustainable Stormwater Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chunxiao Wang
4 The Exploration of the Spatial Transformation of the Old Cities
Under the Concept of Urban Repair Design: Take the Tianqiao
Cultural Heritage Center as an Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Qingguo Wang, Junjie Li, and Wenyan Bian
Part II Sustainable Architecture Design and Technology
5 The Suitability of Sustainable Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Yehao Song, Yingnan Chu, Jingfen Sun, Xiaojuan Chen,
and Dan Xie
6 Automatic Generation of 3D Building Models for Sustainable
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Kenichi Sugihara
7 Performance-Driven Digital Design Methods of Early-Stage
Architectural Design: Investigations on Auditoriums and Room
Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Shuai Lu
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Part III Health and Human Considerations
8 Vital Signs Revisited in the Tropics: Through the nus-cdl
Tropical Technologies Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Stephen Siu-Yu Lau, Abel Tablada, Siu Kit Lau, and Chao Yuan
9 Field Study on Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviors of
University Students in the Cold Climate Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Shimeng Hao, Zhonghua Gou, Yufei Zou, and Xiaoshan Xing
10 User Satisfaction Feedback and Environmental Comfort Evaluation
of Sustainable Building: Take Huahui Research and Design Center
as an Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Pengfei Wang, Junjie Li, and Yichun Jin
11 Using Web Data Scraping to Reveal the Relationship Between AI
Product and Room Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Xiao Guo, Zhenjiang Shen, Xiao Teng, and Yong Lin
Part IV Building Performance and Design Evaluation
12 A Comparative Study on the Performance of BIPV and
Mainstream Insulation Materials for the Energy-Efficient
Renovation of Existing Residential Buildings in China . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Jing Wang, Xuan Ge, Yijia Miao, and Siu Yu Stephen Lau
13 Performance-Oriented Research on the Design Strategy of
Prefabricated Building Facades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Junjie Li, Shuo Tian, and Yuanhui Liu
14 Architectural Design Evaluation: Recent Reform of the Singapore
Green Mark to Prompt a Hypothesized Revolution of the Green
Building Rating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Yifan Song, Stephen Siu-Yu Lau, and Siu-Kit Lau
15 Architectural Design for Manufacturing and Assembly for
Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Vikrom Laovisutthichai and Weisheng Lu
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Chapter 1
Introduction – On the Definition
and Measure of Sustainability
Stephen Siu Yu Lau
It all started from an emergent concept known to most researchers as “the pillars of
sustainability” which appeared on the discussion table in and around the late 1990s.
A normalized way to apprehend the objective of such a concept is achieved through
three realms of considerations, that is, economics, society and environment. For
some, the three pillars are better known as “the triple bottom line” which represents
the baseline approach in order to measure the status of sustainable development.
Both definitions draw reference to the ultimate goal of sustainable development, or
sustainability. For those of us who are in pursuit of the idealism of sustainability
would not forget the toils and doubts those who called themselves green advocates
encountered on their pilgrimage to sustainability! Yes, suspicion that persistently
devours both the mind and will of the pursuer appeared out of nowhere but to occupy
the mind like a never-ending oxymoron conflict caused by these pillars acting on
one another, if not oneself. Among them, it is argued that economics is the first and
ethically sinful pillar of all. For instance, how much would it cost extra to change
the production plant in the name of environmental sustainability? How many years
would it take in order for a new sustainable technology to yield fiscal benefits
(speaking of renewable solar energy, for instance)? Queries such as these fill the
brain until there is no space left for an answer with good cause. The second pillar,
which is the social one, is even harder to explain because it is at its core all about
divergences such as idiosyncrasy, preference, culture, habit, and, more so, individ-
ual like and dislike. How could one change lifestyles instantaneously? Similarly,
how difficult is it to change or modify various habits of the building user, such as
convincing office workers to climb four stories in both directions at their work-
places instead of traveling by elevators? The final one is the seemingly smallest and
S. S. Y. Lau (*)
Department of Architecture, School of Design & Environment, National University of
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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