Sustainable Passive Design for Building Performance of Healthy Built Environment in the Lingnan Area

Bin Li, Weihong Guo, Xiao Liu, Yuqing Zhang, Peter John Russell and Marc Aurel Schnabel
Additional contact information
Bin Li: School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Weihong Guo: School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Xiao Liu: School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Yuqing Zhang: School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Peter John Russell: Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2628 Delft, The Netherlands
Marc Aurel Schnabel: Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-22

Abstract: Having a healthy built environment becomes increasingly important, especially under the effects of COVID-19. This paper intends to combine sustainable goals based on climate change with passive design principles to achieve a healthy built environment regarding the building performance of residential buildings. The Yuedao Residential Community in the Lingnan area was taken as an example for the research. Based on relevant standards of healthy buildings, the thermal, light, and acoustic environment requirements were determined. The methods of building performance simulation and on-site measurement were used to quantify the research object environments. Then, the outcomes were obtained based on these standards. As observed, the thermal environment’s adaptive thermal comfort level was level III. It was hot indoors, but the light and acoustic environments met the requirements. Building designs based on a built environment optimized by external shading systems aim to solve problems through building performance simulation and qualitative analysis. After optimization, the thermal environment improved. According to the literature review, this research focused on a healthy built environment with a sustainable passive design in terms of building performance. A research workflow was established that could be used for more practical research, with abundant research methods. The problems were solved to varying degrees, and the Lingnan architectural culture was preserved. Moreover, this research filled the gap in interactive research on healthy built environments with sustainable passive design regarding building performance.

Keywords: sustainability; healthy built environment; passive design; thermal; light; acoustic; residential building; Lingnan area; building performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/16/9115/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/16/9115/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:16:p:9115-:d:614459

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().