Energy District Masterplan (Beijing, China, 2010)
The project explores the inversely proportional relationship between Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and site coverage. The proposed typology is a hybrid between the widely interspaced high rise buildings and closely-knit, porous, low rise traditional developments (hutongs). The resulting envelope reveals the relationship between urban form and energy consumption at the intermediate scale of a cluster–larger than a single building or block, but smaller than a neighborhood.
Bird’s eye viewUrban type comparisonsContext planCluster isometric: How urban forms impacts energy performancePlanEnergy and formal featuresCluster detail and energy form strategiesCluster detail perspective
Northern facades energy form detail
Street sectionDetail bird’s eye viewPark perspectivePlaza perspective
Project team:
Daniel Daou, Haley Heard, Ira Winder, Adam Galletly, Stephanie Stern