B4 - Intelligent vs. Green - Maita

For our project, Dee Dee and I are researching and comparing intelligent and green buildings. Intelligent and green buildings are both improvements on a normal building type but through different augmentations. Intelligent buildings are more catered towards improving the way the building can function through technological automation. Green buildings improve the building by helping reduce the harmful emissions and by-products produced by the building. Throughout many of the Architectural Engineering classes at Drexel, these subjects have been covered in various levels of detail. The main focus of this project will be to determine what exactly the two types of buildings are and research and explain the differences they have in design and implemented technology.

The paper will focus on the differences and compare the two but will also go in-depth on the different components of the systems. The subjects of intelligent and green buildings can be very broad topics. We decided rather than trying to do a general overview of both systems as a whole, we would focus on the specific design and implemented technology differences that go into each type of building and explain those. Although we know a decent amount of information on what goes into these systems, we are still doing extensive research to try and find all the information we can.

This project was chosen because we both had an interest in the topic of intelligent vs. green buildings. At first glance, many people may think that the two terms are interchangeable and at first, I shared that opinion. But through research, I found that there are a lot of clear differences that separate the two. Determining what exactly these differences are and comparing the two buildings types to see if they overlap at all is the goal of this project.

I think a challenge for this project will be staying on topic when writing the paper. As I stated before, the topics of intelligent and green buildings are broad. Although we have a plan on what we will be focusing on, I think situations are going to come up where we will have to explain topics that are not directly related to what we are talking about, but are relevant enough to include.

Comments
Dung T: I think that the topic of your project is an interesting one. Using a term-long project like this will be a really great way to help familiarize yourself better with BIM. You may want to think about adding more to your project since Revit has a lot of capabilities.

Carlos H: I like the idea of researching technology based on where it is available geographically, rather than as the field as a whole. I think it'll give you a really good understanding of how large of a technological gap there are between some parts of the world.

Mark and Zac: Combining this term project with your AE 391 project was a great idea since you guys won't have to worry about designing and making a whole new building and can do more advanced analysis on it.

B4 -DaCostaXimenes - Underground Intelligent Building

Hello Everyone,

Bach Tran and I, Marino da Costa, came up with an idea to design an Underground Intelligent Building. We got our ideas from looking at the insanity of the competition for constructing the tallest building in world. We thought that it is a little bit unreasonable to build taller and taller and it can possible put people’s lives at risk.  According to the figure 1, up to 39% of the structure is non-occupiable. This means besides there are so much waste in materials, human labor, and money, these buildings also raise safety concern for the surrounding buildings and people. Therefore, we thought it was a good idea to do our research on underground buildings. In this project we are going to do our research on existing underground shelters and their issues or concerns. After identifying and learning about underground structures as well as design, we are going to integrate the intelligent aspects into our design.  The major challenges that we might face are the design the structure resistant to earth movement, selecting materials, MEP design, and the HVAC for underground construction. Some of the potential advantages of underground intelligent buildings are elimination of wind load concern, lessen the effect to natural environment, reduction of life risk for occupants compare to skyscrapers.   

Figure 1. World's ten tallest Vanity Heights (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban habitat)

Source of the figure: http://www.ctbuh.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=k%2BK%2FgAvA7YU%3D&tabid=5837&language=en-US

Hi Cody,

I like your topic project about 3D Laser Scanning and I am very interested to learn more what you and brad are going to find in this research. I personally didn’t think that it was possible to 3D scanning the existing building model with drone because I haven’t seen anything like it in the real world. Your topic interests me to learn more about 3D laser scanning. What do you think will be the major challenges for your project? 

Hi Maita,

I think intelligent vs. Green is an interesting project since you and Dee Dee will focus more in the design and technology differences. I am curious to know about your goals of this project and what are you hoping to learn? I think you guys should also do your research on the advantages and disadvantages of intelligent buildings vs. green buildings. This also will become a good lesson for AE students to learn.  

Hi Zac and Odirizzi,

I appreciate you guys sharing your Revit model on this blog. I personally love using revit and always want to learn more. I feel like I am going to learn a lot from you guys about revit via this project. You design looks great and I cannot wait for your final results of your design. Are you guys going to do lighting design using Revit as well? I see your Revit model you guys combined the bricks and glass into your design model and I want to know what are the reasons behind it?