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Session Overview
Session
1DP/8: Design & Practice
Time:
Monday, 10/Dec/2018:
11:00am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Dr. Sanda Lenzholzer
Location: LT8
Lecture Theatre 8, 2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK

Presentations
11:00am - 11:15am

Influence of design-decisions on the energy performance of renovation projects with building-integrated photovoltaics: Results for a 1968 residential archetype in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey

Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

The renovation of existing buildings is one of the priorities of western countries and needs to be promoted to increase the current low renovation rate, estimated to be of 0.6% per year in the European and Swiss contexts. In parallel, the implementation of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) elements during the renovation process can provide a crucial response to achieve the 2050 targets in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy savings. In this context, architects, designers and engineers have a key role in achieving these objectives, mainly because they are responsible for the design decisions during the development of the projects, especially during the early-design phase when the most influential decisions are taken. Through a real-case study built in 1968, this research shows how certain design-decisions in renovation processes can affect or compromise the final performance of the building from a global life-cycle and multi-criteria approach. Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Cost (LCC) results show the importance of not losing the opportunity to go beyond current practices when a building needs to be renovated and highlight the necessity to take into consideration BIPV strategies to guarantee both economic and environmental targets.


11:15am - 11:30am

New Daylight Breathable Façade with Miura DDC Surface (2) Setting Role of Design to Lead Technology: Test and Results

Yushi Uehara

University of Toyama, Factuly of Art and Design, Japan

In 2013 the International Energy Agency addressed the building sector the compelling importance for changing the mode of energy and climate control1.. In seeking the contribution to this issue, this research frames the moral and the vocabulary of functionalism architecture, that values a simple flat square façade, has reached the limit for this quest and made tests to formulate an alternative ground where new set of rules and technology might appear. This research seeks answers in three-dimensionally formed façades that create shades. This research is showing the result of tests of new façade geometry. The model is is a conlusion of a search path to find façade with osmosis effects of lights: more surface area that allow penetration of ‘cool’ daylight. With the system new building will benefit roughly twice as much as use of daylight in comparison to any other existing system. The façade system is considered as a mean to soften harsh climate such as desert. It is expected to create soft northern Europe like light condition.


11:30am - 11:40am

The Future of Vernacular Architecture in China: Redefining Vernacular Architecture through contemporary design and emerging technology

Nan Yang1,2, Bing Chen2, Robert Kronenburg1, Junjie Xi2

1University of Liverpool, UK; 2Xi’an-Jiaotong Liverpool University, China

This research aims to provide an insight into the existing research and practices on vernacular architecture, serving as a basis for further research on vernacular architecture in China and the relevant design research both locally and internationally. It also attempts to identify approaches that can improve the overall sustainability of vernacular architecture from a retrospective perspective, using emerging technologies in contemporary architecture. It looks at the concept of vernacular architecture in contemporary contexts and provide methods for further sustainable practices.


11:40am - 11:50am

Design Process Cultures As Drivers And Obstacles To Sustainable Architecture

Mathilde Landgren, Lotte M. B. Jensen

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

The past decades of focus on sustainability and the decrease of energy consumption in the built environment has led to higher demand for integrated design and implementation of technical scientific knowledge in the design process. This paper aims to investigate the state of the art for the implementation of technical knowledge in architectural offices in the Nordic countries and the degree to which integrated design is performed. This paper reflects a larger survey-based study among architectural offices in Scandinavia that have a focus on sustainability. The paper underlines the diversity of each architectural office through a work profile developed based on the surveys. Although the offices’ workflows differ, microclimate comfort, daylight, and energy performance tend to be well-integrated topics in building design processes today. However, life cycle costing and life cycle assessment are new topics in the building industry and are still not included in design processes in practice. There is a discrepancy between how important architects evaluate certain kinds of information and how they include it. Much information is still based on ‘experience’ and ‘intuition’ rather than derived from the inclusion of technical scientific methods.