The Ecological Strategies of Vernacular Building - Case Study of Tibet

Author

Huang, Lingjiang ; Hu, Yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Archit., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

6-7 March 2010

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

311

Abstract

Ecological building is a key factor in sustainable development. Compared with contemporary building, the vernacular building has ecological and environment-friendly strategies which could contribute to modern building design. In this paper, Tibet is studied as a case and the main ecological aspects of Tibetan vernacular building such as natural resource, solar energy use and climate response are discussed. And it is concluded that the key of vernacular building in Tibet is the harmony attitude to the environment, and the passive and sustainable solutions should be redeveloped for modern application in building design.

Keywords

design for environment; ecology; structural engineering; Tibet; building design; climate response; ecological building; ecological strategies; environment-friendly strategies; natural resource; solar energy use; vernacular building; Buildings; Computer architecture; Electronic mail; Energy consumption; Environmental economics; Power generation economics; Solar energy; Surfaces; Sustainable development; Urban planning; Tibet; ecological; vernacular building;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Challenges in Environmental Science and Computer Engineering (CESCE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3972-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5924-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CESCE.2010.55

Filename

5493136