Final Presentations 2019-20

 

Amoeba: Multipurpose Mixed-Use Floating Skyscraper

Chandrasekharaiah Ashish Hirematt, Shadi Mal, and Waleed elshanshoury

The design is intended to symbolise growth. To physically manifest this concept, we envisioned the technologies that could be key components, the geometry that could best depict this vision. The Hexagonal tissue of the urban master planning represents a dynamic way for drones routing and increased connectivity between different plots and projects phases. The hexagonal tissue grew around the drone parking. The drone movement was the primary design driver. The design was able to ensure a comfortable experience with a sophisticated design for the future.

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Interlacing

Xuewei Wang, Weiran Wang, and Zidong Guo

This project explored the sustainability and resiliency in urban environments within the context of a high density urbanism and a increasing sea level, proposing a new city form achieve carbon neutral and a comfort living urban in Shenzhen city. The proposed city generates energy mainly from solar radiation. It contains PV panels and solar thermal on roof top. The key concept of the building operation energy comsumption is increasing the efficiency of renovated energy gaining ability. Mainly from two aspects, solar radiation and wind energy. Solar radiation can be gained from three techniques.

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Living Core

Torin Schuster, Hanquing Xu, and Alvaro Hererros

The main sustainability drivers behind The SEAD design concept examined how an integrated argricultural program can impact energy performance and foster a sustainable social ,cultural, and resilient urban habitat. The placement of crops on buildings becomes an important way to mitigate thermal heat gain, and developing micro communities organized around the production of certain food products helps create a unique social environment agenda further adds to a cultural richness, as well as the integration of a green transportation network.

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Mountain Tower

Qin Lu, Yilie Wang, and Andrea Fernandez Laino

Based on the solar analysis, the building form is generated from a simple rectangle to a triangularly-rotating shape. Each step of the transformation is helping to achieve more solar gain. The triple-tower revolution represents different connecting ways of buildings that have different results on collecting solar energy. In order to maximize the use of solar energy, the system has been divided into three departments: the pv panels on the roof surface, the thermal pipes on the vertical surfaces of skybridges, and the BIPV panels on the building facades.

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The Shell

Eric Li, Tianyi Chen, and Prim Rattanathumawat

Considering the site environmental characters, a new design strategy come up to flip the renewable energy generation part to the south facade as a shell, which not only can enlarge the area to place more photovoltaic panels but also can avoid the south side of the building directly exposure under the sunshine. As the photovoltaic panels are at a really high temperature when it straight exposure under sunshine, it badly refluence the indoor thermal comfort. Thus, the second strategy brings about the interstitial space between the shell and the normal program part, which can reduce the heat convection and heat radiation, meanwhile, it can provide a green livable communal space.

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