Transcript Sustainable Design

Sustainable Design
Group 4
Becca
Bogdan
Ines
Aline
Ilektra
Kiriakos
Problem Description
 Area: Watergraafsmeer
 WATERgraafsmeer project: 3 Tables
 The Design Table
 Improving research by design workshops
 Specific problem: Storm-water
management
 technical solutions
 policy solutions
 methods to assure stakeholders’ support
Research Question
Which water sensitive urban design
solutions for storm-water management can
be incorporated into WATERgraafasmeer’s
projects using the research by design
methodology?
Student
Ultimate result
Becca
Ines
Bogdan
Individual result
Theoretically and practically
supported recommendations
about how the workshops should
be conducted, who should be
invited, and how they can be
evaluated
Conceptualizing a strategy to
generate a positive and proactive
attitude among stakeholders
Recommendations of policies
aimed at mitigating the issue and
encouraging private sector
involvement
A list of methods which can be
used in Watergraafsmeer urban
area to upgrade the quality of
stormwater, of biodiversity and
environment as a whole
Group Result
Methodologica
l approaches
for conducting
integrated
planning
Insights about how
to align community,
media, developers,
and policy makers
for introducing
stormwater
management
techniques
Aline
Electra
Develop a plan for sustainable
space (either individual or district)
heating combined with rainwater
harvesting comprising ground
source heat pumps, permeable
paving and underground
rainwater storage
Seek collaboration with suggested
forefront research institutes
Kiriakos
Investigation of the additional
energy savings & benefits coming
from the green roofs in comparison
with the conventional ones
Insights about
existing
stormwater
techniques
and
suggestions
for making
them more
sustainable
Increased
knowledge
and
stakeholders
support about
Innovative
storm water
management
solutions
Individual design
Research /Action (R/A)
Becca Timms
R/A 1 Literature review of research by design and integrated planning in an urban
planning context
R/A 2 Literature review on workshops, stakeholder selection, and evaluation
Bogdan Ochiana
R/A1 Policies and policy instruments used worldwide to tackle storm-water issues.
R/A2 How to involve the private sector and delegate to them part of the responsibility
for water infrastructure, and other water-related projects.
Ines del Real
•R/A1 Stakeholder study (stakeholder analysis and public survey)
R/A 2 Conceptualizing awareness strategy “living water, water for living”, which
includes:Demonstrative project
•Modeling as assessment tool
•Bi-annual water week festival
•Water Sensitive Design Conference
•Permanent info-pavillon
•Itinerant exhibition
•Innovation pioneers
•Bi-annual design award for architects and urban planers
•Social networks
Becca: Understanding and using
Research by Design
 Increased stakeholder support of potential
storm-water management policies
 Results from incorporation of shared
knowledge via Research by Design
workshops
 Effective workshop design is based off of
theoretical knowledge and practical
knowledge
Bogdan: A Policy Perspective
 International literature review of information
on how to tackle storm-water issues from
both a technical and policy-standpoint
 Description of local policies best practices
in similar areas pertaining to the stormwater management
 Proposal to consider the introduction of
private partnerships in managing some of
the related issues and the conducting of a
CBA for these purposes
Ines: Awareness of water
sensitive urban design
 Insights about stakeholders’ knowledge and
attitudes toward needed changes
 Increasing the transfer/sharing of knowledge
 Letting people convince themselves about the
benefits of the demonstrated technologies
Individual design
Research /Action (R/A)
Aline
R/A1: Search in literature for methods to upgrade storm-water quality
R/A2: Search in literature for methods to use the 10% water storage area in order to
upgrade environmental quality of the urban area
R/A3: Search in literature for methods to use the 10% water storage area in order to
enhance biodiversity in the urban area
Elektra
R/A1:What?: Give focus and further examine the technology of Ground Source Heat
Pumps and their potential to make use of rainwater stored in underground reservoirs
R/A 2: What?: Develop studies about permeable pavements &ground source heat
pumps for space heating
R/A 3: What? Research further the technical elements of underground thermal energy
storage tanks and underground rainwater cisterns
R/ A 4:What?: Examine the suitability of the site for the construction of a district PV
park in combination with underground water thermal storage
R/A 5 : What? : Examine the alternative of research action 2, namely installing solar
panels in every dwelling in combination with common underground thermal storage
water tank
Kiriakos
R/A:Investigate the energy savings coming from the evaporating cooling effect of the
green roofs and the benefits of this project in comparison with the conventional ones
Aline: Upgrading environmental quality
and biodiversity
 A detailed lists of methods descriptions
that can be used in Watergraafsmeer
urban area to:
 Upgrade the quality of storm-water
 Improve environmental quality
 Enhance biodiversity
Ilektra: Storm-water management
and energy recycling
Suggested Actions
 1.
Give focus on Ground Source Heat Pumps
(GSHPs)- Tested potential to be combined with
underground rainwater reservoirs
 2.
Study permeable paving with incorporated
GSHPs – Good evidences at experimental level
 3.
Collaborate with suggested institutes
and
develop innovative research on the field of energy
& rainwater recycle
Ultimate result
 An
integrated plan for sustainable (district or
individual) space heating comprising permeable
pavements, underground rainwater storage &
GSHPs
Kiriakos: Technical Matters
 Green
roofs reduce - through isolation - the
energy use needed for heating and cooling the
building
 The
energy savings are higher for non isolated
houses and less for the insulated ones.
 The
bigger the area of construction, the better
the results and the higher the costs.
 Additional benefits comes out from the retention
of water
Limitations
 Timing
 Of the actual workshops
 With the professionals involved in the project
 Of receiving information about previous
workshops
 Of meetings about planning the upcoming
workshops
 Of some technologies developed only on
experimental level
 Information
 Mostly in Dutch (existing policies, DRO
material)
Potential Improvements
• Longer time frame (10 weeks is does not fit with realworld project developments)
• More focused subjects (our client really didn’t know
what they wanted)
• More coherence between the assignment part of the
project and the needs of the actual case
• More pre-scheduled meetings with coordinators (or
other ways to ensure face-time)
• Basics about the case itself (Terms of
Reference alike) should be prepared in advance