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Week 10 The German House

The German house is located in the economic and cultural center of Ho Chi Minh City, close to the French, British, and US consulates. The German house is not only the location of the German Consulate General and visa center but also the headquarters of the German Chamber of foreign trade, Goethe Institute, German academic exchange center, and many famous German and multinational enterprises in Vietnam.

The north side of the building facing the road is 75 meters high with a roof terrace, while the south side extends to 110 meters high, separated by glass. The ground glass facade of the first floor opens to the street in the form of a colonnade. The huge canopy on the narrow side of the building creates a landmark main entrance, from which visitors enter the broad lobby. The German Consulate General on the sixth floor is accessible through a separate entrance on the long side of the building. A restaurant is set up on the 75-meter high open platform to enjoy a wonderful view overlooking Ho Chi Minh City.

For the first time in Southeast Asia, the German house uses a modular double curtain wall system. GMP cooperated with drees & Sommer company to develop the curtain wall system for the tropical climate of Ho Chi Minh City: movable perforated sunshade blinds were added between the outer protective glass and the inner window sash glass. This system can avoid overheating of indoor space, and can reduce energy consumption by 35% under local standard energy with air conditioning. In addition, the building is also equipped with sewage treatment facilities and roof solar panels, and the interior decoration adopts high-quality environmental protection materials, realizing the sustainable design concept in all aspects.

As a result, the German house won many well-known awards including MIPIM Asia Award, and became the first DGNB platinum and LEED Gold Certified building in Vietnam.

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Week 10 Green Office® ENJOY Paris Batignolles

Different from the normal development or the development of the block around the garden green space, green office? Enjoy is a transparent office building. This will not only give passers-by and passengers but also give the users in the building a different feeling of space. The multi-level facade of the building adds a little sense of sculpture to the urban landscape. The tall windows and the aluminum panels beside them highlight the vertical sense of the facade, which shows the visual feeling of the building rising from the ground.

Sustainability is the core theme of the design. In the green office enjoy office building, it is a large area of roof space that plays a crucial role, and their photovoltaic system converts solar energy into usable energy. Each square meter of solar panels can convert 22kwh of solar energy. The 17000 square meters of solar panels on the roof of the project not only offset the 19kwh of power consumption per square meter of the building itself but also create an additional 23% of pollution-free energy. Although there is enough natural light in the room, for the sake of saving resources, the windows only account for 37% of the building facade. The heating/cooling ceiling used inside the building can save resources even without the energy generated by solar panels.

The sustainability of green office? Enjoy office building not only stems from its technical strength, but also from the comfort of daily life, space experience, and beautiful green space it brings to the staff so that all users can maintain a positive personal attitude for a long time.

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Week 9 The Star Innovation Center

Star creative center is located near Colombo, Sri Lanka. The completion of the project demonstrates the high standards of sustainable development, energy efficiency, and the comfort of workers' working environment. And the building is one of the only two certified passive factory buildings in the world. Compared with the traditional modern industrial buildings, its annual energy consumption is reduced by more than 75%.

The project transforms an abandoned building into a passive house, greatly reducing the amount of waste and carbon dioxide generated during demolition and construction, as well as the consumption of fossil fuels. At present, most of the buildings in the world are located in cool climate areas, so thermal insulation and heating are often the primary considerations. However, the project pioneered the application of passive housing technology to tropical monsoon climate areas, so that it can adapt to the hot and humid climate conditions throughout the year.

The operating system and facade of the building are carefully designed, which can not only ensure that workers enjoy a comfortable working environment all year round, but also provide sufficient natural light, reduce humidity, filter air, and keep the indoor temperature at 24 ℃. With the help of airtightness tests and real-time remote monitoring of energy use, specific building performance data can be obtained, which can help enterprises save operating costs and significantly improve the quality of employees' working environment.

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Week 9 Turó de la Peira Sports Center

TUR ó de la peira sports center is located in Barcelona, which provides a sustainable solution for the integration of single green buildings and urban blocks.

The standard of passive building is adopted in the architectural design. The sunroof and window are monitored by sensors to ensure proper cross ventilation in the room. Compact embedded volume minimizes the thermal loss of the facade. The insulation is selectively placed in the facade of the building in the direction of sunlight. The building is equipped with an air-driven thermal system that can collect heat and be used to produce hot water. In the aspect of lighting, an energy control system is installed according to the natural lighting condition. The roof platform is covered with photovoltaic panels, which can generate 90% of the energy required by the building. The Green Corridor around the building filters light so that the three facades are not harmed by solar radiation. The hydroponics system has lightweight and durable characteristics, strong moisture retention, and ease of installation. The basement is equipped with a large water tank to collect rainwater from the roof and to provide irrigation for the greening of the whole facade by means of a water cultivation and planting system. The bottom of the slope of the garden site is equipped with a drainage belt, which can return the collected rainwater to the groundwater level.

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Week 8  CATERPILLAR HOUSE

Caterpillar House is located on the rolling hills of Saint Lucia nature reserve, named after its caterpillar-like planar shape. The design elements of environmental protection are used in the residence, and the contemporary form of grassland residence is explored.

The earth excavated during the construction of houses is used to build rammed earth walls. At the same time, as a regenerator, it regulates the temperature day and night. Three water tanks near the home store rainwater and provide irrigation for all properties. Windows, natural ventilation, and adjustable blinds make up the passive heating and cooling system of the house. Besides, the photovoltaic panels integrated into the design generate all the energy needs of the house, while not destroying the beautiful roof curve corresponding to the hills.

98% of the residential sites are permeable, and impervious surface rainwater is directed to the catchment system on the site, using low flow bathroom equipment to reduce water use; all hard landscapes use high reflectivity materials to reduce the heat island effect; sunshades and long cantilever structures in the South and West also reduce the demand for the cooling system; deciduous trees and extendable trees around the building The retracted awning provides shading for the south glass in summer; there is no forced ventilation air conditioning system and the use of cross ventilation windows, which further reduces the energy consumption; the low embodied energy materials (locally sourced and/or recycled) are used in the construction Content) and reuse the surplus soil generated during the construction, to reduce the waste output of the building by 87% compared with the general construction.

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Week 8 Passive house pavilion of Longfor Sundar

This passive room exhibition hall is a landscape park displaying sustainable technologies and concepts jointly built by Longhu real estate and aorun Shunda group in Gaobeidian train new town, Hebei Province. It serves as a platform for publicizing and displaying ultra-low energy consumption technologies and promoting low energy consumption construction concepts to the public.

The passive house is one of the few in Asia that can meet the passive house certification standard of phi. The heating and cooling of buildings need to meet the strict requirements of energy consumption, that is, the annual heating energy consumption of buildings is not more than 15kwh / m2, the total annual primary energy consumption of buildings (including heating, cooling, hot water, and electrical appliances) is not more than 120 kWh / m2, and the air exchange frequency of buildings is not more than 0.6 times/hour under the condition of 50Pa difference between indoor and outdoor.

The north side of the building is lowered to the landscape slope, which is connected with the micro terrain after the site transformation, while the south side uses an all-glass curtain wall to collect the solar radiation heat in winter. In this way, the north side of the building is covered with soil to achieve thermal insulation and reduce the heat dissipation of the external wall, and the volume of the heating space is also reduced; in the building space, the atrium three-dimensional steps are used to string the indoor and outdoor space streamlines into one, blurring the boundaries between the indoor and outdoor, the first and second floors, and the artificial environment and the natural environment.

The interior space design of the building also conforms to the basic principles of sustainability to the greatest extent. For example, the shape of high in the South and low in the north not only provides the premise of reasonable zoning, but also reduces the volume of the whole exhibition hall; the overall glass curtain wall on the south side can make the most use of solar energy in winter, and then use linkage shutters to prevent heat in summer; the skylight on the top of the atrium can introduce sunlight in the daytime, ventilate and dissipate heat at night, and become the regulating and storage outlet for day and night balance; With the help of the indoor space form, the fresh air system also supplies fresh air from the low places such as the North corridor and the side of the atrium steps. During the use process, it gradually heats up and goes to the sky. Finally, it returns the air from the highest place in the south of the room. Using the basic principle of heat pressure forms the organization of the indoor wind environment.

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Week 7 Kolon One & Only Tower

Kolon one & only tower is located in magok, a new hub for technology and light industry in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul city government is working hard to build the area into a new "industrial ecosystem" of technology and information companies, with a 5 acre project base adjacent to Magu's Central Park, and the research and development center has become the first completed building in the region.

"The Kolon group, with innovation as the core, enables us to truly break through the limits of materials, technology, and design and ultimately create a unique and sustainable building. To achieve the company's vision, it can also meet its research needs in the future." said Morphosis Founding Principal Thom Mayne.

The design of the building focuses on energy efficiency, resource protection, and environmental management, and also takes into account the educational functions, and is committed to providing a healthy and comfortable working environment for employees. Roof platforms and courtyards bring more natural light and fresh air to office space. Other sustainability measures include green roofs, solar photovoltaic panels and geothermal systems, renewable materials, and bubble concrete slabs. The planning of building block and orientation corresponds to the operation path of the sun; the independent sunshade system can minimize the cold load of the building; sufficient lighting in the atrium can reduce the use of artificial lighting; natural ventilation can reduce the cold load; the heating system brings the comfortable temperature to the indoor space.

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Week 7 Jintai Village Reconstruction

Jintai village is located near Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, which is one of the most severely affected areas by the May 12 earthquake. The 2008 earthquake left nearly five million people homeless, and it is estimated that 80% of the buildings in the affected areas were damaged to varying degrees. After the disaster, the community reconstruction was completed rapidly. However, in July 2011, after a heavy rain, a landslide hit the vicinity of Jintai village, and many newly rebuilt and rebuilding houses were damaged again. With the support of the local government and non-governmental organizations, the project provides a sustainable housing community group for post-disaster reconstruction at both social and ecological levels.

The design of the rural-urban framework provides villagers with four different house types, which are different in area, internal function, and roof profile. It also shows how to use local materials, green roofs, biogas as renewable energy, and space for raising livestock and poultry. At the same time, the design improves the indoor lighting and ventilation environment through the vertical inner courtyard and provides access for rainwater collection.

At the same time, the design also takes into account the purification of wastewater by reed wetland and the raising of livestock by villagers' cooperatives, to connect the different links of rural production and life into an ecological cycle. Because of the limited land suitable for building houses, the design of Jintai village combines the urban intensive living mode with the rural environment. The roof provides a place for farmers to grow self-sufficient, while the open space on the ground floor allows them to carry out simple family workshops. On the one hand, this project attempts to protect the common interests of the village, on the other hand, it provides an opportunity to reflect on the modern rural landscape.

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Week 6 House childhood at Saint-Genis-Pouilly

On the border between France and Switzerland, a new area of Saint Genis Pouilly will develop and build a series of new equipment and housing buildings. As the first passive building in Pays de Gex, the project design makes the annual energy consumption of the building less than 30 kWh / m2.

The building is located on the edge of the new community, transiting between the new building and the southern suburbs. On the east side, along the new road, the child care facilities are connected in a simple linear pipeline, emphasizing the linear form of Jura in the background. On the south side, the architectural form is adjusted to fit the triangular shape of the site. The building extends along the east-west axis, reducing the depth of the north and south sides, and is conducive to absorbing solar energy.

The North facade is very open, and the service room serves as a buffer for heat. The East and West facades are equipped with a wooden frame system, and the overhanging roof can prevent the exposed external walls from being exposed to the strongest sunlight. In the North facade and patio, the combination of wood frame and concrete structure can cope with earthquakes and ensure good thermal inertia of the building. The huge green roof is gently covered, integrating different volumes, and openings at different positions are used as skylights and patios to provide suitable lighting conditions. At the top of the roof, a simple hut combines with a sloping roof and is equipped with solar panels.

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Week 6  Wilder Building

The design of Dance Center focuses on the relationship between architecture and city and integrates the characteristics of its original industrial buildings into the urban texture of the quarter des spectacles art block in Simon Tellier. With the support of multi cooperation, the construction and sustainable design team of difica has developed a highly innovative strategy to promote Wilder building to further improve its building performance and energy-saving level.

The design team has built a double wall skin on the original facade of the building, which not only improves the energy-saving performance of the building but also enriches the function of the building. In special festivals, it can act as a projection for image broadcasting. The project also fully considers the natural lighting and the best outdoor landscape orientation of the building, and uses translucent hollow glass to ensure the natural lighting in the room to the greatest extent, and also provides an efficient and energy-saving building shell. The specially customized elevated floor system ensures the best performance of a low-speed ventilation system, high-efficiency air conditioning system, and administrative space. Meanwhile, the cable system for lighting and fire protection is hidden, creating a warm and comfortable space for users.

There are many other environmental initiatives in the project, such as retaining the structure and shell of the original building to maintain its historical significance, and also helping to reduce the loss of new materials; white roof to offset the heat island effect of the building; properly handling more than 4150 tons of contaminated soil, and transferring more than 78% of construction waste from the waste treatment plant by recycling.

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Week 5  House behind the Roof

The house is one of 10 residential buildings in Krakow, Poland. The land price in this area is very high, so the building density is high. To protect the privacy of the residents, the house is hidden behind the street through a huge roof, thus isolated from the northern neighbors. That's why it's called "the house behind the roof.".

With the dynamic development of the city, more and more natural areas are used for real estate development, so eco-friendly design is particularly important. The north side of the roof is covered with a large number of succulent plants, and the south side of the roof with sufficient sunlight is installed with photovoltaic solar cells. Although the green roof area has exceeded the floor area of the building, the construction cost is still very high. It may also prove that what we grab from nature will cost us.

The unique structure of the building is made of laminated wood with grooves at the edge of the roof. The roof is not only exposed on the outside, it also penetrates the interior. There are ribbon windows at the junction of the north and south roofs, which can let in a lot of light. The windows which are far away from the ground and set at high places can bring efficient natural ventilation when they are opened.

The facade of the house is covered with western red cedar boards, and there is no deliberate protection against insects and rain because as time goes by, it will naturally show a noble luster and gradually become silver gray. The green roof also needs no extra care. The water storage capacity of vegetation and the cool climate in the north make it able to withstand the dry environment for a long time.

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Week 5 

Since 2016, the emergence of bike-sharing has solved the problem of "the last mile" for many people. However, due to the brutal growth and competition of capital, a large number of bikes have crowded into the city. However, with the collapse of more sharing companies, millions of bike-sharing have piled up and abandoned in the streets, resulting in the "famous" bike-sharing cemetery. This has caused immeasurable damage to public space and social resources, and also goes against the original intention of bike-sharing and low-carbon travel. It is estimated that at least 10 million bike-sharing vehicles will be scrapped by 2020. In this context, Qiang Huang established an organization called "bike scavenges", which not only rethinks the possibility of abandoning bike-sharing but also criticizes and reflects on the uncontrolled capital activities.

Bike scavengers encourage people to dismantle tens of thousands of overproduced bicycles and turn them into valuable products. By combining with the semi-finished products provided by "bike scavengers", bike sharing, which has no use value, will reuse its parts as new "items".

"Bike scavengers" advocates more users to participate in up cycling activities and take more social responsibility in the process. These products can not only meet the functional needs but also have "sound" objects, reflecting the impact of the sharing economy on people's lives and how we can resist.

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Week 4 Harvest bag

Shopping bags have become the most common way for consumers to collect goods due to their low price and simple production. However, their negative characteristics are also countless. On the one hand, the various colorful shopping bags are filled in the market, which greatly hinders brand recognition. Many brands are forced to use the shopping bags because of the cost, and the final products can only be submerged in the sea of numerous other similar products In the ocean. More importantly, the shopping bags used have become a large number of non-recyclable garbage, and become a serious burden to the environment.

The design of the harvest bag makes use of the tenacity of fabric, and then breaks it apart and turns it into a reusable fashion bag. In combination with modern fashion vision, the design strengthens the material characteristics, makes waste regeneration, and makes the rejected materials play different luster.

The term harvest means abundance and is a symbol of the characteristics of agricultural products. However, harvest bag is full of meaning, which reflects the characteristics that the future products can become travel shopping bags.

The overall package of the harvest bag is simple and pure, without too many designs and colors, which is consistent with the core of the design, and is intended to explain the concept of promoting green and environmental protection and healthy life of the brand.

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Week 4

Zero waste Bistro is located in New York City. It is designed by Linda Bergroth and co-sponsored by Bergroth and Hari Koskinen. It emphasizes circular economy, new material innovation, and sustainable design. The tavern space is made entirely of recycled and recyclable materials and uses sustainable, iconic Finnish objects. For example, the furniture and tableware of the Finnish design shop and Artek; durat's renewable composite finishing series; kotkamills' disposable cup that can be re-sized; sulapac's new non-plastic packaging; and oklin 24-hour fertilizer making machine that can turn food waste into waste.

The restaurant's food also has a sustainable concept, which was created by Nolla restaurant from Helsinki. They have a very simple concept: "waste generation, decomposition, recycling, and then into resources, and ultimately achieve recycling and reuse."

Food packaging also has a unique design. Luka Balac, Albert Franch sunyer, and Carlos Henriques, the founders of the restaurant, are also directly involved in the project to design and control the food packaging. The food in the tavern has the Nordic flavor of the chef's hometown and the Mediterranean tradition from their ancestors. And all ingredients are from sustainable producers and suppliers, without any non-recyclable packaging.

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We produce a lot of garbage and waste every day, such as household garbage and kitchen waste. The rubbish is not completely useless, and some of it still has recyclable value. Like cartons, bottles, and even leftovers.

We all know about a program in Australia called 10 Cent Refund. In fact, this program has been around for many years in China. Since the beginning of China's reform and opening up in the last century, China's productivity has been greatly improved and people's living standards have been greatly improved. Residents have more money to buy more goods, which also speeds up the production of daily waste. This has caught the attention of some people, who collect the waste from each household, such as cartons, bottles and other things that can be recycled, and buy them for a certain price. After collecting enough waste, they ship it to special government-set recycling plants and sell it back at a higher price than before. They support their families by earning the difference. As a result of technological innovation, residents are upgrading their large appliances and starting to recycle them.

However, nowadays, these recycling activities are usually carried out by the middle-aged and the elderly, because few young people are willing to store these recyclable goods at home, which will occupy some space in the home, making the already small space even more crowded. It is also difficult to find recyclers in big cities, so young people may be more inclined to throw away recyclable items. As I mentioned last week, garbage sorting is the best way to solve this problem. Although it can't get money back, it can give people a sense of responsibility, raise awareness of sustainability, and relieve the pressure of the city.

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Week 3:

"Rolf's House" is an ambitious renovation project that transformed a late 19th century carriage house into a home and office. What makes the design unique is that all the materials used in the renovation were sourced from the demolished office building next to the building. The architect studied these materials carefully and reapplied them to his design.

The former carriage house of the "Rolf House" was built in 1895 in the back garden of an aristocratic mansion on the broad Maliebaan Avenue in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 2011, Rolf Bruggink bought the temporary home with the intention of demolishing it and building it again. But the demolition inspired him to create a space within the carriage house that was both sculptural and functional, using recycled materials.

The furniture in "Rolf House" was designed by German designers and made from recycled materials. For example, the "Rocking Chair" is made from CD boxes; The "Small Case" is a display case made from old window frames; The dining table is made of different waste materials stacked on top of each other.

'Rolf House' applies the 'cradle to cradle' principle of recycling materials from old buildings to build new projects, but that's not Bruggink's main focus. It's the transition from old buildings to new ones that appeals to him most. In his opinion, the old materials, which are considered worthless by the public, have their own advantages and can be used to make different objects. In this way he creates a material link between the house in its new and past form.

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Look back at the past two months: COVID-19, Australian bush fires, Texas snowstorms, and frequent earthquakes and flu around the world. The beginning of 2020 alone has left us with many painful memories. This kind of disaster will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the development of human economy and society, and the economic decline, the depletion of resources, environmental pollution also alert us, whether we should rethink our life today? How can we create an environmentally responsible and sustainable future of life through design?

Print Your City is a pioneering project by Dutch research and design studio The New Raw that aims to reshape urban public Spaces by recycling plastic waste. The Print Your City team partnered with Coca-Cola this year to build the first Zero Waste Lab in Thessaloniki, providing robotic arms and recycling equipment where citizens can turn their recycled plastic Waste into custom-made urban furniture through 3D printing. Participating citizens can customize the shape and use of each object according to their own needs, as well as choose which public Spaces to place them in. After completing the design, participants can log on to Print Your City's official website for information on the amount of plastic to provide enough raw materials for 3D printing. These distinctive designs, such as bicycle racks, vaulting horses, tree pots, dog feeding bowl and bookshelves, add more eco-friendly and fun elements to urban life.

“Plastic has a design failure. It is designed to last forever, but often we use it once and then throw it away. With Print Your City, we endeavor to show a better way of using plastic in long lasting and high value applications” – say Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, founders of The New Raw.