Hello everyone,
Marino Da Costa and I, are going to research and design an
underground intelligent building. Nowadays, people keep competing for
constructing the tallest building in the world. We wonder if building taller
and taller building make any sense. According to the latest report of Council
on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, on average, up to 27% of the height of the
top ten tallest buildings is vanity height (non-occupiable height). Take Burj
Khalifa as an example, at 244 m, the vanity height of this building can be a
stand-alone skyscraper. I think this is such a huge waste of money, labor and
materials. Besides, skyscraper like these pose a higher risk for their
surrounding in case of collapsing due to earthquake or other disasters. My
partner and I wonder wouldn’t it be more reasonable to build deeper into the
earth. We believe an underground building will have a higher chance of
surviving disaster and less effects to the environment. In this project, we are
going to look at previously built underground shelters, to learn about the probable
construction materials, budget, as well as architectural and structural designs.
In addition, we will need to identify issues and concerns for building
underground structures, and attempt to integrate intelligent features to make
such building efficient. Some of possible issues are waste disposal, energy
sources, accessibility, building materials degradation, and so on. At the end, we
are aiming to present a Revit model for our underground intelligent building.
Citation
http://www.ctbuh.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=k%2BK%2FgAvA7YU%3D&tabid=5837&language=en-US
Comments:
Shuyuan,
I would love to have a HVAC system with sensors and controls
for my house. This winter I got a ridiculously high gas bill because of
heating. I had to manually raise the temperature at night and kept forgetting
to lower it in the morning, as the result the whole building was kept heating all
day. I wonder if it would be possible to integrate such sensors and controls to
an existing HVAC system, also will the cost of installing such system worth the
cost of electricity or gas that it can save.
Dung Tran,
I really like the minimalist and futuristic look of this
building. It would be interesting to see how you design and HVAC system for such
building. I concern that a glass envelop like this will require a huge amount
of heat in the winter. In addition, you might want to think about a security
system or something that can ensure the privacy for the occupants if the
building is to be built in an urban setting.
Allison Abad,
I am a big fan of Elon Musk and his ambitious vision of
human living on Mars. I think finding a building method on Mars would be a very
challenging task. I still think that it would be more realistic to have some astronauts
on Mars to control all the robots and drones. In addition to limited energy
sources, Mars is infamous for intense dust storms, thus you might want to take
that in consideration. Good luck on your project!
