Strategies of Energy Efficiency Design in Traditional Kangbaiwan Mansion in China

Autor: Song Xiaoqing, Zhang Caili
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol 68, p 13004 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2261-236X
DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/20166813004
Popis: The building sector is one of the highest energy consuming sectors in the world as well as in China, it is urgent to seek an energy efficiency way of sustainable architecture development. From the perspective of tradition, this paper focus on strategies of energy efficiency design that contained in excellent vernacular dwellings. On the basis of analyzing an example of Kangbaiwan Mansion, it illustrates the advantage of environment ecosystem, and summarizes the physical and cultural characteristic of its buildings, especially the climate-adapting overall arrangement and sustainable strategies of natural ventilation and passive solar gain, which can be a fertile source of modern energy efficiency architecture design as well as a proper way of inheriting the outstanding traditional culture.
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