A Study on Visual Preference of Green Building’s Appearance in Hot-Humid Climate Region

• Main Authors: Yi-Ping Tsai, 蔡依萍
• Other Authors: Ying-Ming Su
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77dm3a

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 建築與都市設計研究所 === 102 === In the green building evaluation system currently prevalent in Taiwan, the target items of evaluation are not adequately related to exteriority. That should be an inadequacy for the development of the current phase. We should become more capable of promoting green buildings if we would put into thorough implementation the green building objectives as visual presentations to enable the general public to directly perceive the green building image and, in turn, accept and identify the consistent circumstances. The present is intended to look into the cognition and inclination of the general public on green building. On the grounds of ecology-oriented architecture, we’d assemble and deal with the characteristics in line with environments and climate to analyze the divergence from the green building evaluation system. In the environmental strategies of lowering temperature, sun-shade, ventilation, we would like to generalize six architectural styles in common architectural uses, e.g., high-ceiling roof, elevated floors with rails, extra sun-shade, corridor veranda, ventilation vents, and earth-coverage, along with seven building materials as wood, bamboo, stones, earth, bricks, metal, and concrete. In the present study, we adopt green buildings and ecological buildings as the examples to conduct a survey toward the general public and professionals by means of a 10-point Likert-type scale to look into their inclination and attitude toward green building exteriority. The findings yielded in the present study indicate that up to approximately 90% s have held reasonable cognition that a green building should show significant difference in exteriority and that exteriority is an extremely significant factor in the evaluation of a green building. The survey subjects further demonstrate an attitude that a green building should carry the right green building image. In terms of the inclination of green building exteriority, the inclination of native local characteristics comes to a value of 5.87. Among them, the native and local inclination capable of being melted with natural environments represents the highest value at 6.32. In terms of the image of green building exteriority, natural building materials hold the highest inclination rate, local characteristics, and positive image. The artificial building materials possess the lowest inclination except bricks, possessing not at all any local characteristics and carrying even a negative image. In combination of native characteristics, inclination and image, the corridor and verandah styles in wooden structures present the highest inclination value, say, as high as 7.22. Utilization of hot, humid climate oriented architectural vocabulary would bring added characteristics toward the exteriority of ecological architecture, bring added benefits of green buildings and set sound cognition of green buildings. With the aforementioned findings, the present offers hands-on suggestions on the green building evaluation system currently prevalent in Taiwan and the principles for exteriority design. It is earnestly hoped that through the efforts of the present study, there will be sounder systems for green building evaluation to be used for subsequent planning and design.