The form of clean energy neighborhoods : how it is guided and how it could be

[摘要] The subject of ;;clean energy city;; has attained increased attention in recent year. However, almost all studies to date about ;;clean energy;; are either at the building scale or the regional scale and little touches the real estate development scale, or in other words the neighborhood scale. The research project ;;Making the ;;Clean Energy City;; in China;; - funded by Energy Foundation, China - is the first attempt to dress the relationship between neighborhood form and energy consumption. As part of the research, my thesis proposes the framework to address the energy-form relationship in in-home operational energy use, to be further developed in the future stages of the research project. The thesis poses two questions, how does neighborhood form affect in-home operational energy consumption and how do we guide designers and developers on the design of neighborhood form in order to reduce in-home operational energy consumption? The thesis approaches these questions through a review of existing energy-related simulation tools including building energy analysis tools, microclimate analysis tools and tools that address energy concerns at the neighborhood scale. The thesis proposes to use a simulation approach based on prototypes and their variations at the cluster scale - a form descriptive system developed by the research project - as the direction to establish this form-energy relationship as well as to convey this relationship to designers graphically. Finally as a demo, the thesis examines the relationship between operational energy use and neighborhood form under Prototype ;;Small Perimeter Block;; with DeST, a building simulation tool that can also be applied to a cluster of buildings.

[发布机构] Massachusetts Institute of Technology