Sustainable Passive Design for Building Performance of Healthy Built Environment in the Lingnan Area

Sustainable Passive Design for Building Performance of Healthy Built Environment in the Lingnan Area

Li, Bin (South China University of Technology)
Guo, Weihong (South China University of Technology)
Liu, Xiao (South China University of Technology; University of Hong Kong)
Zhang, Yuqing (South China University of Technology)
Russell, P.J. (TU Delft General Support; Tsinghua University)
Schnabel, Marc Aurel (Victoria University of Wellington)

2021

Having a healthy built environment becomes increasingly important, especially under the effects of COVID-19. This paper intends to combine sustainable goals based on climate change with passive design principles to achieve a healthy built environment regarding the building performance of residential buildings. The Yuedao Residential Community in the Lingnan area was taken as an example for the research. Based on relevant standards of healthy buildings, the thermal, light, and acoustic environment requirements were determined. The methods of building performance simulation and on-site measurement were used to quantify the research object environments. Then, the outcomes were obtained based on these standards. As observed, the thermal environment’s adaptive thermal comfort level was level III. It was hot indoors, but the light and acoustic environments met the requirements. Building designs based on a built environment optimized by external shading systems aim to solve problems through building performance simulation and qualitative analysis. After optimization, the thermal environment improved. According to the literature review, this research focused on a healthy built environment with a sustainable passive design in terms of building performance. A research workflow was established that could be used for more practical research, with abundant research methods. The problems were solved to varying degrees, and the Lingnan architectural culture was preserved. Moreover, this research filled the gap in interactive research on healthy built environments with sustainable passive design regarding building performance

Acoustic
Building performance
Healthy built environment
Light
Lingnan area
Passive design
Residential building
Sustainability
Thermal

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d567b3f4-4ff4-403d-857a-f62cc7682ca7

https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169115

2071-1050

Sustainability, 13 (16)

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© 2021 Bin Li, Weihong Guo, Xiao Liu, Yuqing Zhang, P.J. Russell, Marc Aurel Schnabel