Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China
Numerous in number and mostly still in use, buildings built between 1840 and 1949 are valuable assets in the rapid development and renovation of Chinese cities. However, due to lack of maintenance and being inhabited mainly by the elderly and people with low incomes, many of these buildings are in p...
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| description | Numerous in number and mostly still in use, buildings built between 1840 and 1949 are valuable assets in the rapid development and renovation of Chinese cities. However, due to lack of maintenance and being inhabited mainly by the elderly and people with low incomes, many of these buildings are in poor condition and have much higher possibilities of being demolished. The objectives of ecological renovation presented in this paper are to improve building performance and to achieve higher levels of comfort and lower levels of energy consumption. The housings in Zhong-nong-li block in Nanjing are used as an example in this paper to show how a strategy of “basic” renovation and “thorough” renovation is used in the ecological renovation of housing stock between 1840 and 1949 in China. The paper demonstrates that these are very practical steps for this building stock in China and could not only help to balance social and economic factors in practice, but also improve the living conditions of the residents, and endow the old houses with a new, long life. Numerical simulations of the natural day lighting and ventilation situations before and after renovation are made to show the improvement in building performance after renovation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dce0538c05db4fa88205c882aad223f12023-08-03T09:07:49ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering1347-28522020-05-0119325426310.1080/13467581.2020.17245421724542Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, ChinaJinxiu Wu0Wei Dong1Yonghui Li2Xiuzhang Fu3Southeast UniversitySoutheast UniversitySoutheast UniversitySoutheast UniversityNumerous in number and mostly still in use, buildings built between 1840 and 1949 are valuable assets in the rapid development and renovation of Chinese cities. However, due to lack of maintenance and being inhabited mainly by the elderly and people with low incomes, many of these buildings are in poor condition and have much higher possibilities of being demolished. The objectives of ecological renovation presented in this paper are to improve building performance and to achieve higher levels of comfort and lower levels of energy consumption. The housings in Zhong-nong-li block in Nanjing are used as an example in this paper to show how a strategy of “basic” renovation and “thorough” renovation is used in the ecological renovation of housing stock between 1840 and 1949 in China. The paper demonstrates that these are very practical steps for this building stock in China and could not only help to balance social and economic factors in practice, but also improve the living conditions of the residents, and endow the old houses with a new, long life. Numerical simulations of the natural day lighting and ventilation situations before and after renovation are made to show the improvement in building performance after renovation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2020.1724542ecological renovationhousing stock built between 1840 and 1949higher levels of comfortbasic renovationthorough renovation |
| spellingShingle | Jinxiu Wu Wei Dong Yonghui Li Xiuzhang Fu Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering ecological renovation housing stock built between 1840 and 1949 higher levels of comfort basic renovation thorough renovation |
| title | Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China |
| title_full | Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China |
| title_fullStr | Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China |
| title_short | Ecological renovation process of Nanjing’s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949, China |
| title_sort | ecological renovation process of nanjing s housing stock built between 1840 and 1949 china |
| topic | ecological renovation housing stock built between 1840 and 1949 higher levels of comfort basic renovation thorough renovation |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2020.1724542 |
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