Archi-Union Architects,City of Breeze,Shenzhen Bay,Shenzhen, China

What happens when ancient cultural practices are combined with the most current design technologies? Archi-Union Architects used the opportunity of their entry to the 2014 Shenzhen Bay ‘Super City’ International Competition to develop a bespoke generational method that integrated feng shui with advanced environmental simulation techniques. Philip F Yuan, the founder and director of Archi-Union Architects, who is Associate Professor in Architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai, here describes the City of Breeze project and the design methodology behind it.     

围绕化工设计竞赛,提高独立学院人才培养质量的探索与实践简

大学生化工设计竞赛是课堂通往工程实际和工作岗位的一个重要平台。我们将化工设计竞赛与实践教学体系结合,从教学内容、教学方法和手段、考核方式、师资建设、竞赛组织等方面展开提高人才培养质量的探索与实践。实践证明,竞赛成绩提高的同时也提高了教学质量,并最终提高了人才培养质量,由此可以探索出独立学院培养高素质应用型人才的一条重要途径。     

基于URWPGSim2D仿真新平台的水中搬运的策略优化

针对2016国际水中机器人大赛水中搬运项目的URWPGSim2D仿真新平台,为提高传统比赛策略的效率,对其进行优化.设计仿真机器鱼的方向算法和最短运动距离的算法,采用多种算法和函数动态分析鱼的运动路径,运用星型网状判断思路,综合考虑多种情况,从而最大程度上避免失误.实验结果表明:该策略能高效率完成比赛任务,很大程度上缩短完成比赛的总时间,大大提高策略的稳定性.     

Toward consumer-centric energy network regulation: Australia's experience

Understanding the objective of economic regulation as mimicking the process of competition, rather than the outcome of theoretical competitive markets, recognises the need for regulated energy transmission and distribution network service providers to respond to consumer preferences. The regulator, network service providers, and consumer advocates in Australia have conducted experiments on ways consumer preferences can shape regulatory proposals. These experiments demonstrate that agreements about regulatory proposals between the network service provider and a counterparty representing the interests of consumers are effective in ensuring that the proposal reflects consumer preferences. The paper demonstrates that in this process, consumers can also design output-oriented incentive schemes proposed by performance-based regulation.     

园林规划设计之外的思考

在市场经济的大环境下，在关注设计手法、设计风格的探讨，新材料、新技术运用的同时，也需要跳出风景园林规划设计专业之外，对行业的发展前景、发展战略、市场开拓、企业管理、相互之间的竞争与合作等课题进行研究和思考，关注规划设计行业的发展现状，对企业在经营过程中设计之外一些漠视的环节进行探讨，共同促进行业繁荣发展。     

Role of Fe(II), phosphate, silicate, sulfate, and carbonate in arsenic uptake by coprecipitation in synthetic and natural groundwater

Competitive effects of phosphate, silicate, sulfate, and carbonate on As(III) and As(V) removal at pH approximately 7.2 have been investigated to test the feasibility of Fe(II)(aq) and hydroxylapatite crystals as inexpensive and potentially efficient agents for remediation of contaminated well-water, using Bangladesh as a type study. Arsenic(III) removal approximately 50-55% is achieved, when Fe(II)(aq) oxidizes to Fe(III) and precipitates as Fe(OH)3 at 25 degrees C and 3h reaction time, in the presence of all the oxyanion. Similar results were obtained for well-water samples from two sites in Bangladesh. Heating at 95 degrees C for 24h results in 70% As(III) uptake due to precipitation of magnesian calcite. A two-step process, Fe(II) oxidation and Fe(OH)3 precipitation at 25 degrees C for 2h, followed by magnesian calcite precipitation at 95 degrees C for 3h, yields approximately 65% arsenic removal while reducing the expensive heating period. In the absence of silicate, up to 70% As(III) uptake occurs at 25 degrees C. In all cases, As(III) was oxidized to As(V) in solution by dissolved oxygen and the reaction rate was probably promoted by intermediates formed during Fe(II) oxidation. Iron-catalyzed oxidation of As(III) by oxygen and hydrogen peroxide is pH-dependent with formation of oxidants in the Fenton reaction. Buffering pH at near-neutral values by dissolved carbonate and hydroxylapatite seeds is important for faster Fe(II) oxidation kinetics ensuring rapid coprecipitation of As as As(V) in the ferric phases.     

2008年奥运会乒乓球比赛馆(北京大学体育馆)设计

通过2008年奥运会乒乓球比赛馆设计的回顾,探讨了"中国脊"的设计理念和对场馆周边环境限制与影响的解决办法,以及场馆的赛后利用等问题。     

开发生态家具促进绿色消费

本文简单明了地介绍了生态家具设计的概念和生态家具设计的特点,以及生态家具设计的主要内容和关键技术,最后提出了以实际行动实施可持续发展,用工业生态学原理指导家具业的发展,认真做好“绿色选择”和“CAT环保产品”认证,以及引导绿色消费和倡导绿色竞争等发展生态家具产业的构思。     

Hello Stranger: Phenomenology and Topography of the Megacity

Caroline Bos of UNStudio counters the city theme of this issue of Architectural Design with the spectre of the megacity. The very recent emergence and scale of the Asian megacity, she argues, requires a very different architectural treatment to the European or North American metropolis. It is one that should be understood through an experiential approach that brings to the fore spatial and visual relations between people, and people and things, asking, for instance, how so many strangers can be so visibly at home in public urban space.     

基于风景园林学科竞赛的素质教育方法研究

现如今高等学校提升素质教育质量、使大学生成为社会所需要的合格人才已经成为高校学生教育面临的重要课题。结合北京林业大学园林学院在国际和国家级学科竞赛中获得多次荣誉,且参与热情更是逐年提高这一独特的学院现象,将风景园林学科竞赛和大学生素质教育的相互促进展开研究,重点探讨基于学科竞赛的大学生素质教育方法。以提高当今大学生综合素质为出发点,通过调查问卷和理论分析的方法进行研究,最终探讨通过学科竞赛活动的促进,创新和完善各项素质教育平台,提出系统科学的大学生素质教育方法构想。