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The Influence of Balcony Greening of High-Rise Buildings on Urban Wind and Thermal Environment: A Case of an Ideal City
The balcony greening of high-rise buildings is one of the vertical greening strategies that have been tried in recent years due to the lack of green space in urban areas. In this study, the influence of balcon...
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Winter Wind Environmental Comfort in Courtyards in Vernacular Architecture: A Case Study of the Fuyu Building in Yongding, Fujian
Global warming is worsening. Sustainability is the main goal for reducing the consumption of energy and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, and ecological architecture is the optimal means of reaching this goa...
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A Preliminary Comparative Study on Subtropical Ecological Community Indicators: EEWH-EC
Rapid urban sprawl and resource exploitation have led to unprecedented challenges to the global environment. An ecological community, which is the integration of architecture, ecology, and society, includes va...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing “Flourishing” into Green Environment for Taipei City
Taipei City became the World Design Capital 2016 with the slogan of “Adaptive City” and “Adaptive Design”. When seeking strategies to green environment, this study was adopted a new adaptive approach with sema...
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CO2 Purify Effect on Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Through Indoor Vertical Greening
Modern people usually situate inside buildings, therefore indoor air quality (IAQ) is important to living environment. In this research, we measured the transpiration rate of 50 experimental plants first, and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing “Healthy” into Green Environment for Taipei City
To achieve the goal of green environment related to an adaptive city of Taipei which is the World Design Capital 2016. We should discuss the effect of wind environment around the buildings at the beginning of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing "Friendly" into Public Park for Taipei City
Taipei City has officially been selected the 2016 World Design Capital (WDC) this year, campaigning under the slogan “Adaptive City: Design in Motion”. A successful design capital should demonstrate the differ...
