Project 1
Case study: Identifying Innovative Passive Design Strategies
This project allowed us to study the principles of heat transfer in relation to building and people, understand the factors affecting thermal comfort, to be able to analyse the effect of thermal comfort factors in a person and in a space and to be able to criticize design of the space in terms of thermal comfort by referring to MS1525, UBBL, GBI and Green Mark Standards.
In a group of 6 students, we were required to choose 2 buildings for our research area which was to be located one in Singapore and another one in Malaysia. These buildings are recognized and certified as green building according to:
Green Building Index (Malaysia): GBI Malaysia
BCA Green Mark Buildings (Singapore): BCA Green Mark
Our research taught us to analyse things like passive design strategies that compliment the tropical climate of the countries allowing maximum thermal comfort for people.
We also learnt how to document these things along with software understanding of Ecotect; helping us to achieve sun path diagrams and analysis, wind analysis and thermal analysis.
Our first chosen building was in Singapore called Solaris @ One North located at the edge of central business district. The building is part of the Fusionopolis development which is dedicated to a variety of R&D fields.
Solaris is a 15-storey multi-tenanted facility for infocomms, media, science, engineering research and clean-tech development at one-north, consisting of two separate tower blocks linked by a grand, naturally ventilated central atrium. Solaris has been certified as BCA Greenmark platinum, the highest possible green certification granted by Singapore's sustainable building benchmark.
Solaris @ One North
Our Second Building was in Malaysia called the Setia City Mall located in Setia Alam in the State of Selangor. The mall has been recognised as Silver according to Malaysia's Green Building Index (GBI) due to its few design strategies such as open air dining facilities, light weight concrete for walls and ceilings, use of other sustainable materials, VOC paints and ozone friendly refrigerants.
Setia City Mall
Solaris is a 15-storey multi-tenanted facility for infocomms, media, science, engineering research and clean-tech development at one-north, consisting of two separate tower blocks linked by a grand, naturally ventilated central atrium. Solaris has been certified as BCA Greenmark platinum, the highest possible green certification granted by Singapore's sustainable building benchmark.
Solaris @ One North
Our Second Building was in Malaysia called the Setia City Mall located in Setia Alam in the State of Selangor. The mall has been recognised as Silver according to Malaysia's Green Building Index (GBI) due to its few design strategies such as open air dining facilities, light weight concrete for walls and ceilings, use of other sustainable materials, VOC paints and ozone friendly refrigerants.
Setia City Mall
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