THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING ATRIUMS
The atrium, as an all-weather public congregated space, is equivalent to the indoor city plaza and with more predominant conditions than the city plaza. The atrium is an artificial environment, and its function of ecological adjustment mainly is revealed in such ways as climatic adjustment and environmental improvement. As an indoor space, however, the atrium is rather great in volume and has many pieces of glass: on the one hand, it leads to a great amount of energy consumption; and on the other hand, it has the potential of passive cooling and heating. Therefore, much more attention should be paid to the ecological design of building atriums. By analysis of the physical characteristics of types and volumes of the atriums, the areas of the top glass, and materials of division walls, the authors brought forward in this paper the ecological design strategies for building atriums with a core integrated design method which combines light environment, thermal environment and IAQ.
Atrium Physical characteristics Design strategies Integrated design
Feng Xu Guoqiang Zhang Mingjing Xie
College of Architecture, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
国际会议
北京
英文
2007-09-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）