FINAL JINAN DESIGN | Site 5- Waterfront
Group 2 | Ira, Haley, Adam, Daniel, Stephanie, Yang, and Phoebe
CENTRAL THEMES
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Distinguishing Jinan as desirable place to live and work (livability), a new
commercial hub between Beijing and Shanghai
o A draw, especially to companies based in Beijing or Shanghai looking to open
a second office in a city that has a better living environment than China’s two
commercial hubs
Using Jinan’s natural advantages as a beautiful area with natural springs to create an
aesthetically pleasing, livable and enjoyable city
Creating a modern design based on traditional form to capture the advantages of old
hutong neighborhoods (e.g. energy efficiency, community, walkability, mixed use
development)
KEY STRATEGIES
1. Mobility: transit-orientation and pedestrian- orientation
a. Limited car use and parking
2. Diversity
a. Mixed use, variety of commercial and economic opportunities
b. Mix of densities
3. Outdoor Living Room: shared public spaces
a. Allows for small living unit
b. Allows for geothermal
c. Builds community and responsibility
4. Using the Ecology
a. Sun: Solar penetration/ south facing windows for heating and solar
orientation for PV/hot water
b. Wind: natural ventilation
c. Water: canal, greywater etc.
d. Multi-scale energy approach
DESIGN PLAN: CITY SCALE
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A polycentric system of hubs with strong commercial/economic corridor running
East-West and connecting to the main train station. Centered on a greenway, Jinan’s
new city center becomes a livable city with natural areas, which also reduce the
urban heat island effect
Local hubs at the transit system, where transit, streets and pedestrian ways come
together; gridded roads provide structure, while natural areas (canals and
greenways) weave through, connecting major and minor hubs
There is a hierarchy of nodes from the large-scale commercial center (economic
core) to local neighborhood commercial centers to recreational hubs on the
waterfronts. Each node is focused around a green space to provide livability and a
geothermal field and a transit stop to provide mobility
Energy Strategies
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Transit-oriented Development: hubs on transit lines, emphasis on pedestrian and
bike paths, possible bike or car sharing program, public electric bike charging
powered by solar)
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Greenways: pedestrian and bike transit, geothermal, clean sky (reduces UHI and
smog)
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Energy Generation Hubs: outside of the transportation network, land on the site’s
periphery can be used for geothermal, wind and solar
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Local Agriculture: reduced food miles, increased sustainable agriculture practice
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Microhydro: river ways can be used for energy generation
DESIGN PLAN: AREA PLAN
The central canal splits to create an island, landscaped to be wild and natural. Strong
commercial uses activate the banks, with an artist/gallery emphasis on the West shore and
a link to the agricultural/alternative energy research institution on the East. The central
road with the transit stop becomes a strong commercial and office hub and residential
mixes in and connects the commercial areas. The waterfront (without a road) is a long
green space.
Energy Strategies
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Transit-oriented development
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Greenways
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PV shading
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Community centers with information on energy generation and usage (creating
sense of community pride and individual responsibility/energy awareness)
DESIGN PLAN: CLUSTER
The cluster shows a gradient from the strong and tall street edge (with large-scale
commercial use) scaling down to the neighborhood and residential level. Greenways weave
through buildings and create open and public space as well as space for geothermal wells.
Energy Strategies
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Passive solar heating and day-lighting
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Natural ventilation
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Potential for wind power on top of buildings
o Examples: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/bahrain_install.php,
and http://www.aerotecture.com/projects_mlh.html
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Solar hot water heating
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Geothermal heating and cooling
ENERGY PRO FORMA
The pro forma shows the design performing favorably compared to the Jinan
neighborhoods and inline with the international case studies. However, there were several
areas where the pro forma can be improved, including:
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Several design elements are difficult to capture in the pro forma, including:
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o Architectural details, such as thrombe walls (which are in the model, but
don’t have any associated energy savings)
o Renewable energy generation- very little energy savings come from
renewables. A more robust model would allow you to estimate the amount of
clean energy generation on site.
o Water conservation- where storm water, greywater and water reuse
techniques are used, an estimate should be made for energy savings from
reducing pumping and water treatment.
o Building classes and elevator use- the building classes in the inputs should
divide out buildings less than 6 or 7 floors since we assumes that all
buildings less than 7 floors would not require elevators (the current category
is 4 to 12 floors).
Residential and commercial should probably be separated in the outputs so that it
would be possible to look at household energy use that is calculated just from
household energy use (rather than including the per household share of the
commercial energy use as well). In general, the commercial component of the pro
forma is very crude.
In addition, there are a few notes about the pro forma that are correct, but should be made
known to the users:
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The model is dominated by heating rather than cooling (for example, shading
increases energy use since it decreases winter solar heat gain). This is probably
correct for Jinan, but was surprising to us since we visited during the hot summer.
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“Other Uses” tends to account for much of the energy use (42% of our design’s
operational energy use) and is not affected by the urban form.