A Hierarchical Approach for the Sustainability of Residential Building Regeneration ()
ABSTRACT
After the enormous advancement of urbanization from the past 30 years,
the functional and environmental quality of a large number of existing
residential buildings poses a serious challenge to the sustainability of urban
living. It is of great significance to retrofit the existing residential
buildings in order to improve the living quality. However, due to complexity of
residential issues, retrofitting of existing residential areas is not only some
simple revising and reconstructing projects of residential buildings and
environments, but also multidimensional and interdisciplinary theoretic
research and engineering practices. Thus, this research study, taking the
residential buildings built between 1980 and 2000 in Northeast China as the
research objects, attempts to systematically put forward a regenerative method
that offers an overall sustainable retrofitting plan of residential buildings.
This paper, starting from investigating the complex issues of existing
residential buildings, summarises the contradictions between the requirements
from residents and current retrofitting approaches. Then, to resolve the
contradictions, hierarchical theories, such as Open Building and Shearing
Layers, are introduced based on documentary analysis and case studies. And
finally, a sustainable regenerative design approach is proposed to
hierarchically control the qualitative and quantitative retrofitting of
existing residential buildings. The findings of this research will extend and
improve the role of occupants’ participation in the retrofitting of residential
buildings. It can also provide methods for the achievement of the long-term
effectiveness and environmental sustainability.
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Li, G. , Zhou, J. and Wang, L. (2019) A Hierarchical Approach for the Sustainability of Residential Building Regeneration.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
7, 269-280. doi:
10.4236/jss.2019.710022.
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