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Vertical Ecologies – Bio Receptivity in High-Rise Buildings

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The project aims to speculate on the future of skyscrapers with demographic changes and global warming leading to the increased frequency of diseases, urban heat islands, biodiversity loss, and poor air quality. With urbanisation, the areas covered with vegetation are lost to concrete jungles which do not contribute to the surrounding environment, leading to a lack of biodiversity and more frequent heat islands. Sparse, homogeneous trees surround the built environment. The idea is to design a vertical ecology so that the skyscrapers will interact with the environment. Biodiversity is promoted through design, materials, and biological living skins. The building itself can purify the local air and promote an enriched biodiverse environment through a symbiotic relationship. This reflects the impact of construction on air quality and the local biodiversity. The biodiversity-inducing building elements comprise various flora and fauna. The plants absorb pollutants through their leaves and roots. At the same time, the choice of insect-pollinated flora increases the biodiversity and environmental quality. The building material is tested to promote the growth of flora. This is achieved through the digital environmental analysis process, incorporating results in computational design and increasing the role of the built environment in the quality of urban areas.

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Concept

Concept

The project re-imagines and speculates the future of the built environment with the vision of a new form of dynamic architecture that responds to the environmental conditions.

Vertical Ecology – Saving Choking Lives

Vertical Ecology – Saving Choking Lives

The increased frequency of airborne diseases and pandemics has made obvious the severity of the impact that air quality and carbon footprint has on the built environment.

Design Intervention - Adaptive Ecology, Bio-air-purifying Building

Design Intervention - Adaptive Ecology, Bio-air-purifying Building

The project focuses on air quality data with vertical pollutant variation. The design responds to environmental requirements with data incorporated into the computation. Bio-informed design contributes to the purification of air.

Air quality Performance of Three of the most Polluted Cities in Asia Pacific

Air quality Performance of Three of the most Polluted Cities in Asia Pacific

The reports show the most vulnerable are developing countries, primarily Asian countries, with a lack of resources to tackle the growing issue. These regions share a similar climate, carbon footprint, and air pollutant contribution.

Research - Material, Geometry, and Environmental

Research - Material, Geometry, and Environmental

The study relies on environmental simulations and analysis methods to reduce the dependence of the built environment of mechanical solutions by using passive temperature, humidity, heat gain, and light.

Pollution Sink Skin Design

Pollution Sink Skin Design

The project uses real data for environmental analysis with computational outputs and furthers using the sensor-based system to have active and dynamic solutions through interactive interfaces.

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Bioreceptive-air-purifying Activated Charcoal-clay Mixed Panels

Biodiversity Field Survey in the Urban High-rise Environment

Through the preliminary field investigation, it was found that moss is the most widely growing organism in the urban high-rise environment.

Carbon Sequestration Capacity of ‘Vertical Ecology’ Skyscraper

Carbon Sequestration Capacity of ‘Vertical Ecology’ Skyscraper

The prediction and simulation were carried out based on the data of CFD environmental analysis, and the ideal value of carbon sequestration capacity in the skyscraper ‘was calculated.

Clay Porous Panels 3D Printing

Clay Porous Panels 3D Printing

Printing tests were carried out on different porous panel prototypes to screen out the prototype with the best printing results without supporting structure.

Activated Charcoal-clay Mixed Box 3D Printing

Activated Charcoal-clay Mixed Box 3D Printing

Exploring the printability of activated charcoal-clay mixed materials at different mixing ratios on the most basic box shape.

Activated Charcoal-clay Mixed Porous Panels 3D Printing

Activated Charcoal-clay Mixed Porous Panels 3D Printing

The optimal porous panel was printed using activated charcoal-clay materials mixed in different proportions, resulting in a maximum ratio of activated charcoal to clay of 1:1.2.

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Computational – Cellular Automata + CFD

Aerial View of the Building

CFD + Cellular Automata

The systems consist of two types of cellular automata cells: active and inactive cells deployed into two different heat load surfaces. An active cell is deployed on the high heat load, while inactive cells are on the lower heat load.

Main Tower Section

Cellular automata create a spatial characteristic and define the usable space based on the heat load of CFD while also improves the thermal performance of the building.

Function

High heat load surface becomes a place for green wall and public space, while the colder area becomes the usable space for main office area.

Façade, Opening Details

The organic-looking façade and opening of the building is the result of cellular automata influenced by the CFD data. The algorithm defines the opening and usable space throughout the building.

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The Bartlett
B-Pro Show 2021
30 October – November 13
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