Design and Management of Building＇s Resources

The developed modem control systems and buildings management resource systems would be effective if they are based on previously established optimal conditions during the building design. This is one of the key issues for a responsible architecture. The focus of this paper is on sustainable design methods and techniques for saving resources and their management throughout the building lifecycle. The main subject of the present article is the characteristics of these methods and their fundamental role in sustainable resource management during the building operation. The results which are based on conducted case studies of European and international practice in the construction of sustainable buildings are implemented here. Key features of a comprehensive approach for design and construction are outlined via comparative analysis, as well as various systems for the evaluation of sustainability for already constructed buildings. The mostly used criteria and indicators for sustainability are systematized, including those related to resource consumption. By analyzing a specific example, the role of sustainable design methods is justified as an important prerequisite for effective management of building resources in the process building maintenance. According to the conducted studies, during the longest life cycle period of a building, by implementation of control systems and resource management of building, the costs are successfully optimized. Specific directions that prove the effectiveness of such systems are systematized in the paper. Innovative approaches, complex methods and measures for design and management of buildings resources are presented as results of this study.     

Images of the Future from the Past： The Metabolists and the Utopian Planning of the 1960s

During the 1960s, many changes reshaped the economy, the society and the arts. The Cold War, the Space Race, the construction of a new middle class in most western societies led by the postwar economic prosperity with unprecedented urban growth followed by severe environmental problems fostered the design of spectacular urban utopian cities and mega-architectures. In those years, Japan was the source of highly influential bold and visionary urban and architectural ideas which relied on advanced technology. These ideas were conceived on the thought that cities could be seen as gigantic but impermanent entities able to transform itself according to an organic process of adaptation of its elementary components. This paper briefly revisits and critically discusses the legacy of the iconic mega-strnctural projects of Japanese Metabolist Movement and other visionary architects and planners of the 1960s, such as Paolo Soleri, Buckminster Fuller, Archigram. It attempts to enlighten the continuity with contemporary innovative and experimental urban models and ideas for the society and the city of the future, such as the Smart Cities, Eco-Cities, Green Urbanism, whose design is led by concerns related to climate change, the necessity of energy efficiency, the improvement of urban landscape and the valorization of depleted natural resources.     

Urban Development in the Age of Globalization 2.0——The Transformation of West Cities and Impacts on Chinese Cities

如果把2008年之前的全球化称为“全球化1.0版”,那么2008年后的“全球化2.0版”正在显露出自己的特点.两者最重要的区别是,全球化1.0版是由西方国家市场力和政府力的结盟推动的,社会力被排除在全球化过程之外.全球化2.0版是对1.0版的修正,实质是社会力对市场力和政府力的抗争,迫使它们考虑全球化过程中社会的利益,并在一定程度上制约了资本的全球流动.这样的变化具有复杂的后果.在分析了全球化1.0版和全球化2.0版的异同,全球化2.0版形成的原因、特点及理论问题后,讨论新的全球化时期西方城市的转型,以及对中国城市产生的影响.     

The Sunshine Home Standing in the Ruins:Guangzhou Counterpart Supporting Weizhou Wenchuan County (the county) Post-disaster Restoration and Reconstruction of Urban Housing Resettlement Area (Phase Ⅰ)

5·12汶川大地震发生后,广州援建威州镇的居民安置房一期工程是广东省援建项目中最早动工、最早完工的民生工程之一,该文回顾了由政府主导的该援建工程,既要超常规快速完成,又必须尊重当地的自然环境、民族风格,更要提升当地居民的生活品质,使灾区的人们对未来美好生活充满信心的特殊设计过程.     

The Industrial Heritage and the New Architecture： Teaching, Researching, Designing the Place Identity

The new architecture may provide unusual opportunities for the abandoned areas involved by former industrial processes, both in the city centers and in the landscape. In fact, it may create new centralities and give new collective function for deprived areas. The case study of the architectural and educational project for a new museum park devoted to the technique and the science in the Apennine＇ s landscape near Parma （Italy） may give an interesting point of view about the role of the teaching and the research of the architecture in the former industrial heritage, and to avoid the abandonment and the pauperization of the territory around.