Green Design Of Rural Housing In Hot Summer Cold Winter Zone Based On Design And Technology Integration

Compare to the cities, villages did better in inheriting ancient Chinese settlements’ advantages in adapting environment. After centuries of trying, techniques on building village houses had developed so mature that they performed well enough in energy saving. Under the circumstances of rapid urbanization, present villages had wasted too much energy and resources in copying city mode due to the lack of consideration. It is an urge to extract brief scientific techniques from traditional climatic building experience to support urbanization.There are plenty of rural houses in hot-summer and cold-winter area, this study aims to propose comprehensive strategies on integrating design and energy saving technology. Based on the study of villages in northeastern area of Hubei, author intends to find low-tech, low-cost, energy-saving building techniques adapted to the local climate, to summarize and propose the "low carbon block-based design" which combines the present and traditional construction, and finally propose the open housing system.The process of this study as follows:(1) Basing on massive research and qualitative analysis, the study analyzes aspects dealing with climate including master planning, space organization, house volume,construction methods and building materials, and explains the principles within;(2)Basing on quantitative analysis, comparisons and analysis will be made between traditional villages and present self-constructed villages on aspects such as individual buildings;(3) Basing on the research, the study will optimize the design of the rural housing, combining the advantages of traditional housing and the functional requirements of the present housing, and finally obtain the basic optimized housing type.(4) This study will hold an open attitude to design the "low carbon block-based design", which will result in easy-to-get materials and easy-to-build methods, using constructing methods like clothes-hanging spaces, patios and solar walls to make multiple combination to meet multiple requirements. The study will also be using ArchiCAD to build BIM models to simulate the thermal performance and energy cost of traditional houses and present rural houses.(5) This study will propose multiple combined options for " green block-based design", select a housing type as model to lucubrate its thermal performance and costs, and finally complete the village design.