Muhammad Owais Majeed, Hashim Azam, Muhammad Umair Mumtaz, Muhammad Umair Yaseen, Muhammad Abdul Rehman
student
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Department of Architecture and Design, Lahore
Pakistan
Architecture
“A smart building block merged with eco-terraces, acting as a viewpoint for the users to interact with the surrounding environment”. more
Andrea Haase
advisor
Anhalt university of applied sciences, Dessau
German
Building space, creating a location more
Dear students, you aim to learn from case-studies about avoiding heat islands and qualifying climate conditions by vertical gardening.
I recommend for your concepts for the 4-storey apartement buildings:
- Reducing the density of built form ground coverage by inner yards with unsealed ground, vegetation, rain water management.
- Combing traditional spatial concepts of inner yards for individual accesses to private and shadowed open spaces per unit of use with high technology construction of solar panels on the window glass as applicated films for absorbing/ filtering sun-energy and using it for gaining energy for heating/ cooling in addition to the natural means.
- Structuring the built form vertically instead of horizontally, according to your aim of vertical gardening by applying constructions for shadowing by means of hanging vegetation (rooted in the ground) on separate wooden elements (secondary facades).
- Shadowing and cultivating walkable roof terraces by extensive vegetation around the inner yards.