Green Architecture: Traditional Architecture Rejuvenated From Green Design

Shiwen Xu
Academy afCivil Engineering and Architecture NanChang University NanChang,JiangXi province, China

Qi Liao
Academy ofCivil Engineering and Architecture NanChang University NanChang,JiangXi province, China

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AbstractThe concept of green architectural design is briefly described in this article. The elaboration of how to apply technological methods of green design to traditional architecture to make the buildings alive can further illustrate the point that the green architectural design is a combination of traditional architectural design and the concept of the green design. The paper also explores what factors should be taken care of in the green design plan. The article briefly analyzes some technological methods that can be applied to modification of existing buildings for energy saving. Keywords- green architecture, green design, the sustainable development, ecology

Their self-conscious moves to realize the dream of green unfold a vigorous mass campaign for green design. Currently, construction industry is energy intensive heavy industry, and integrating ecological rules into traditional architectural design is put on agenda. Consequently, the object of study has shifted from individual building to complex, so it means that the traditional architecture is now undergoing architecture taking the a or series the of of changes of leading living i.e., to generalized In science environment. the

ecological angle, a basic way to solve ecological crisis is view eco-ethnics, harmonious coexistence of man, nature and society as the guideline.

1. INTRODUCTION

II. TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY AND PRINCIPLE Actually, the so-called 'archaeology', is actually viewing architecture as an ecosystem, by designing various kinds of materials in internal and external space and enabling the orderly circulation of energy in this ecosystem, a high efficient, low-consuming, no-pollution, and ecological balanced building environment can be realized. Thus, green design is not just dressing architecture with a beautiful 'ecology' coat, neither overturning the traditional architectural design theory. Green building economizes on resource (save energy, land, water, materials) , protects the environment and minimize the pollution to a fully extent during the whole lifecycle (site selection, the planning and architecture design, construction, operation and management, later maintaining), thereby providing us a space that is healthy, useful and high-efficient and also harmonious with the nature. The basic connotation of green architecture can be namely saving summarized as following three essential points: easing the architectural burden of the environment, energy and resources; providing a safe and comfortable living space; being harmonious with the environment and the residents in order to be sustainable developing. What is actually the concept of green architectural design? It includes the following points.
Energy saving

The deterioration of environment makes people rethink their developmental pattern, the concept of ecology and sustainable development theory thus emerged. The intensive type of development pattern featuring high effective utilizations of the resources is the basic way to realize the sustainable development, and this is exactly the fundamental goal that green design wants to achieve in the future. A healthy and sustainable developing human settlement will be the demand in the next decade. To realize an all-around harmonious co-existence among human beings, nature, and society is a common concern of human in the 21st century. Therefore, the research and application of green design is of momentous current significance, viewed from the human survival and development point. In the field of architecture, green design is a thought about the ethics of man, nature and society. The green design makes it materialized. In a word, during the whole life cycle (including design, building construction, the utilization and the process of abandoned materials etc.), green design focuses on the environmental attribute of the construction and bases on environmentally friendly techniques. Thus, it is an integrated network which merges ecosystem, natural landscape, harmony, high efficiency and earth construction technology into a whole. In the realm of architectural design after saving 1980s, some such subjects as energy, used local to be researched energy and independently, self-circulation building,

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programming and design, round safeguard structure, enhancing energy using efficiency of end-user and heightening total energy using efficiency. The utilization of new energy plays an important role in saving energy and protecting environment.
Resources saving

needed to produce a comfortable internal climate can be greatly reduced. Therefore, an overall consideration of the construction and layout design is conducive to making full use of the advantages of the construction site.

During the process of design, construction and choosing the materials, the rational use and treatment of resources should be taken into consideration. Throughout the whole construction, we should reduce the consumption of resources and use renewable resources instead. By the way, we should try our best to save water resources even if the water is used to green the building.
Back to nature
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2. The green ecological engineering of interior architectural

harmonious with the surroundings and achieve the goal of protecting the ecological environment. When choosing the construction site for a green building, the ideal construction site should satisfY the following geographic conditions: the soil does not contain toxic substances, the soil temperature is proper, the ground water is clean and the terrestrial magnetism is moderate. Green building always tries to use natural materials. The materials, such as wood, tree bark, bamboo, stones, lime and paint, used in the construction should be subject to strict inspection to make sure that they are harmless to the human body. According to the local geographic conditions, we can employ devices (e.g. solar energy heating equipment and wind power equipment) in order to make full use of the natural renewable resources provided by the

space

First of all, following the concept of green materials selection, we should choose renewable materials of environmental protection as many as possible instead of the synthetic materials in the internal decoration design. It would make the dwellers close to nature. Before implementing the concept of green design, doing indoor environmental friendly decoration is the only thing we can do. However, it is the hardest thing to do.

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III. TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICAnON EXAMPLES Nonetheless, the fact is that green design needs a whole regard of the use of energy and materials in a formed design system. Hence, green design requires excellent scheme and construction works to create 2hs (healthy and happy) residential space. It can establish a good relationship among humanity, architecture and natural ecological environment, eventually reaching the destination of ecology.
1. The green design ofouter architectural space

The aim of the ecological landscape design outside the building is is to change the micro-climate, in order for a minimum space to accommodate as much as ecological effect. The reasonable layout of building has a positive impact on the local climate, by keeping outdoors climate close to the 'comfortable area' in the most extent, and then the energy
Fig. 2: Pudong green island ecosystem town. The interior green space of the architecture, which is connected as an organic whole through the vertical and

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lateral ecological axes, is relatively independent and tightly correlated at the same time.

organisms and the ecological service function in the occupied land to a certain degree and the economic compensation of the system can be beneficial in providing nature space that we will feel closer to. The specific location of the buildings in the construction site is important as well, so much attention must be paid to the specific location, increase and decrease of area, the change of shape, the paving of road, and efforts must be made to ensure the strict conformation with the ecological land use. The designers adopt ecological sites, optimize the site planning, construct rational groups of animals and plants, pay great attention to the circulation utilization and improve the acoustical environment, thermal environment and wind environment of the chosen site. These are based on the principle of giving priority to the ecological environment by means of which can improve the environmental quality of the construction site in all aspects.

Apart from this, the application of ecological principles in the architectural structure and construction can make the pattern of the space different because of the update of the construction. It also fundamentally transforms the architectural decoration design and the construction pattern. These changes give life to the building and make it adapt to the natural conditions. In addition, the designer can seek for the breakthroughs in the design of environmental system. For instance, the automotive cooling and heat insulation can be realized by different lighting control ways, on the such light, as the natural ventilation, humidity natural the and building landscaping. temperature, Similarly, a rational inside

architectural space can lift the degree of comfort, harnessless, convenience and ecological rationality (the beautification, performance of the virescence and the natural properties,

optimal design of facilities to treat waste). In this way, the goal of low carbon can be achieved in the process of using the building.

Fig. 4: The California Science Academy. The roof covered with local plants can absorb 90-98 percent of the rainwater. The solar photoelectric cells that form a circle around the roof provide 60 kilowatts of the electric power, which can cover 5-10 percent of the energy needs of the building. Fig. 3: The California Science Academy. The undulating glass roof of the atrium allows enough light in the room. Meanwhile, the high efficient natural ventilation system efficiently balances the climate of different ecological envirornnent.

Furthermore, we should break the restriction that the concept of green architecture can only be applied to new buildings. In the recent times, the construction energy saving of new buildings is prompting well in China. The buildings basically match the standard of green architecture. However, a lot of existing constructions still require a large amount of energy. The reform to turn the existing buildings into green buildings is now imperative. The reconstruction of the building would include the transformation for energy saving and the improvement of the thermal comfort and so on. There are lots of existing buildings waiting to change. Therefore, whether the existing buildings can be successfully turned into green buildings will determine the realization of architectural energy saving and the achievement of the goal of environmental development in our country. In the light of the existing problems of the buildings, the buildings are not energy-saving order to chiefly these because all parts the of the existing be buildings cannot meet requirements of energy saving. In solve problems, buildings must

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Ecological restoration engineering activities of the construction site An organic unified green system should be built between

the construction and environment. The architectural form should be in accordance with the nature. To achieve the goal of the intergrowth between the green building and the environment, stereoscopic plantation plays a vital role in energy saving. The practice of urban agriculture and courtyard economy, creating multi-dimensional green space on the roof, to some degree, can be regarded as restoration of land used for building and compensation for economic benefit of the system, what's more, this provide a special way for residents to approach the nature. The recovery of indigenous

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reconstructed in all aspects. The concrete measures are as follows: 1. change the materials and the thickness of the materials used for the house surface heat preservation, the methods of the current construction projects can be referred to; 2. the doors and windows should be changed into plastic profile casement to meet the requirements of the heat supply system;
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survival and development of human beings, as well as reduces the pressure to the ecological environment. We can finally live in harmony with nature. The 21 sl century is a century of urban times, a century of ecological times. The green design would be the historical choice. All the countries throughout the world have paid more and more attention to the energy saving buildings along with the global climate becoming warm. Increasingly, people are realizing that the
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above the ground of the building to resolve a series of problems such as the insulation and damp prevention; comfort. reconstruct the heating system to save the cost and elevate the

produced by the use of energy for building construction is the main reason of the climate warming. The energy saving building is an inexorable trend of the development of modem architecture. from a With the ever-increasing popularity of the ecological consciousness, ecological architecture will develop

IV. THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTION The application of green design in the traditional

concept to applied science which has its own

independent research system.

architecture makes it possible to meet the demand of the

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