| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 建築與都市設計研究所 === 104 === High-rise buildings and residences in urban areas reduce green spaces. Most residential buildings are old, encountering physical and sociological aging that brings about inferior and crude scenes. While urban residents evolve from old, low-elevation apartments to western style high-rise condominiums, old and new buildings mingle haphazardly, with external walls lacking proper maintenance. Windows in residential buildings, which should be intended for ventilation, lighting and landscape enhancement purposes, are fitted with iron bars for burglar prevention purposes and safety concerns that result in inferior visual perspectives of urban landscaping. Nevertheless, many residents try to beautify their home environment by placing potted plants, but achieve quite the opposite effect due to disorder, filthiness and lack of a systematic design; they even use the steel spaces for placing miscellaneous objects, which not only obstructs evacuation and rescue actions in the event of an incident and also diverges from the intended purpose for setting those iron bars. The study therefore takes window of residences as the research subject, aims to improve the landscape of residential buildings and to escalate environment quality via the Green Window Approach.
First of all, document collection is performed to investigate the approach and benefits of vertical greening, as well as the evolution, application, and pro and cons of windows. Secondly, green window patents are compiled and analyzed for submitting topics. Finally, the “mobile window” is selected as the research subject for developing a proprietary design of a green window that features multiple functions; also, based on patentability for design patent, the green window design is assessed for meeting patent application thresholds. Via the previously collected patent database, the green window developed by the study is compared for justifying the patentability for the application of an invention patent, with illustrations provided for demonstrating the developed green window also meets the patentability for an innovation patent. Both the patentability for design patent and the patentability for innovation patent are used for the assessment of industrial applicability, with the expectations that the green window application in window of residences achieves greening of homes therefore improving urban landscaping and the quality of living environment, and that by combining the safety functionality of iron bars and the formation of a canopy, the green window becomes multi-functional.
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