Star Garden High-rise Building Design

- Climatic Design Priorities

Winter: 1) Keep heat in and cold temperatures out.
2) Protect from the cold winter winds.
3) Let the winter sun in.

Spring: 1) Use natural ventilation for dehumidication.

/Fall 2) Intermediate season has to be stretched for minimizing
energy consumption.

Summer: 1) Keep the hot temperatures out.

2) Protect from summer sun.

- Comparison between original design and proposed alternatives

Type 6 UNIT Block Plan 5 UNIT Block Plan

Original Scheme A Scheme B’ Scheme A Scheme B

Surface Area 1 171.6m 3 171m 175m 161.1m 142.2m

Buffer Area 2 29m 60m 27.1m 25m

South-facing
36.1m 47.1m 50m 52.8m
wall Area

1 - 2 / 3 x 100 100% 83% 67% 78% 87%

Type E 101m2 103m2 130.6m2 136m2 124m2

UNIT 127m2
2
Floor Type F,F’ 91m2 90m 116.8m2 128m2
142m2
Area
Type H 98m2 92.3m2 114.75m2 130.6m2 92m2

Common Space 4 2 101.5m 2 2 156.5m2

110m 134.75m 79m2
108m2
2 2 828m2
Total Floor Area 5 690m 860m 664m2

4 / 5 x 100

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Original block plan and 1st revised scheme A

34,000

Problems
- North wing units do not receive
enough southern light.
- Privacy compromised between
north wings.
- Building plan exposes too much

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surface to outside, increasing heat
loss.
- Too compact unit plan creates
poor natural ventilation within
units.
- Symmetry of plan does not consider
local climate conditions.(ie. west sun,
Original Block Plan north winds)
Scale:1/200

48,000

Improvement
- More compact design decreases
exterior surface area.
- Improvement of natural
cross ventilation.
- Privacy provided between
29,000

north wing units.

- Interior south-facing areas
increased for apt units.
- Sequential hierachy of spaces in
unit plan.

Scheme A
Scale:1/200

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2nd revised scheme B & scheme B’

45,000

Features:
- A more compact form decreases
surface area of the building. This
greatly reduces heat loss thru
exterior walls.
- Service core at north of building

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buffers residences from winter
winds.
- Each apt. has both south-facing
bedrooms & living areas.
Scheme B - Living areas contain sunspaces that
Scale:1/200 mediate extreme outdoor conditions.
- Deep closable niches between units
provide ventilation in summer and
act as buffer spaces in winter.

49,000
30,500

Section-A thru sunspaces.

Scale:1/200

Scheme B’
Scale:1/200

A B

Elevation & Section-B

thru niches.
Scale:1/200

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5 unit scheme A

57,000

A
Features:
- Building is divided into 5-story
cluster configurations.
- Each cluster contains a common

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space for ventilation. This common
space allows for natural ventilation
of building in temperate seasons
thru the stack effect.
Scheme A_1 - Each unit has both south-facing
Scale:1/200 bedrooms & living areas.
A’
- Living areas contain sunspaces that
meditate extreme outdoor
conditions.
- Roof garden absorbes heat gain
from roof.
- Cross ventilation possible thru each
units.

Scheme A_2

Section A-A’
Scale:1/200

South Elevation
Scale:1/400

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5 unit scheme B

53,000

Features:
- 2 floors / elevator stop (skip-stop).
- Maximum southern exposure.
- Minimum north expsure.
- Service core north-west buffer.

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- Natural ventilation for common space.
- Avoids west exposure.

Scheme B
- upper level plan
Scale:1/200

- Diagram

- lower level plan

- split level plan

- Axonometric

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Revised 12x24 plan

Features:
Typical/Luxury
- Sunspace / Solar buffer
- Stack ventilation
- Enlarged south-facing wall for living area
- Simplified floor plan for maximum air
Typical floor plan circulation
Scale:1/100

Penthouse
- Double-height sunspace/ living area
- South-facing terrace
- South-facing bedrooms

Luxury floor plan

Penthouse Penthouse
floor plan 1 floor plan 2

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- Ventilation

- Insulation

- Section & Elevation

Scale:1/200

- Sun angle study

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Shading design study

- Design 1

- Section 1

- Section 2

- Design 2

- Section 3

- Design 3

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