Residential community / Residential quarter
(MICRODISTRIC) LOW-RISE HOUSING
Residential community
Part of social infrastructure
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Including: Main Housingfunction group •Low‐rise housing •High rise housing
(service radius not greater
500m) Community‐level service building •Kindergarten, Primary school •Commune Health Station •Market, convenience store •Sports center •Other service centers for everyday needs of the residential community; Part of technical Greeneryinfrastructure / Transport •Sidewalk greenery •Park/ Garden •Internal roads (including roads from subdivisionalto residential quarter roads) •Parking lots
Sustainable development
World Commission on Environment and Development
•Sustainable development is the idea that human societies must live and meet their needs without compromising the abilityof future generations to meet their own needs
Challenges include
•Climate change, energy consumption, waste production, threats to public health, poverty, social exclusion, management of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and land use;
Sustainable architecture
•Sustainable architecture designs and constructs buildings in order to limit their environmental impact, with the objectives of achieving energy efficiency, positive impacts on health, comfort and improved liveability for inhabitants
•Sustainable architecture means being able to satisfyconsumers’requests, taking the time and natural resources needed into consideration from the very early stages of the project, entering the context in the most natural way possible, planning ahead by making the space and materialsemployed completely reusable
Real projects developing low-rise housing
Van Phu, Ha Dong district, Hanoi
Mixed use approach in housing development project Example of maximizing construction area in a real estate project
lic School
High rise
Shophouse
PubTownhouse
Real Projects developing low-rise housing
VinhomesRiverside, Sai Dong, GiaLam, Hanoi
Example of optimizing architectural and landscape space in a real estate project
Real Projects developing low-rise housing
Privately owned public space (POPS)
A type of public space that, although privately owned, is open to the public (by legal require or compromise)
VinhomesCenter Park, BinhThanh district, HCM City
Fishbowl Activity ‐ Dividetheclassinto2groupsaccordingtotheeven numberedorder ‐ Studentsineachgroup,inturn,willbecalledontotalk abouttheassignedaspectrelatingto:Theoddgrouptalks aboutlow‐risehouses,theevengrouptalksabouthigh‐rise buildings(advantage/disadvantage/characteristics) Request: ‐ Speakbrieflyanddonotrepeatwhathasbeensaid Aspects: ‐ Environment ‐ Microclimatecomfort ‐ Technicalinfrastructure ‐ Trafficorganization ‐ Economic ‐ Management ‐ Sosiocultural
Fishbowl Activity
Energyconsumption
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High
‐ Environment ‐ Microclimatecomfort ‐ Technicalinfrastructure ‐ Trafficorganization ‐ Economic ‐ Management ‐ Sosiocultural
‐risehousing: • Lowlevelofenergyconsumption • Simpledrainagesystem • Canbeclosertonaturalecosystem(garden,park,water…) • Thecollectionofdomesticwaste,drainageare problematicinexistingurbanareas.
‐risehousing: • Requiresmoreenergyforcooling,vertical communications,lightingandotherelectricalequipment • Easiertocollectwastebuthighweightofwasteis problematic • Requiressignificantcosttoprovidegreenspace
Wasteanddrainage Ecosystem
Fishbowl Activity
‐ Environment
Microclimatecomfort
Technicalinfrastructure
Trafficorganization
‐ Economic
Management
‐ Sosiocultural
Naturallightingandinsolation
Naturalventilation
Low
risehousing:
• Flexibilityinarchitecturalsolutiontoprovidenatural lightingandinsolation,ventilation
High
risehousing:
• Difficulttooptimizenaturallightingandinsolation, ventilation,especiallyinhighdensityplanningcondition.
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‐ Environment
‐ Microclimatecomfort
Technicalinfrastructure
‐ Trafficorganization
‐ Economic
Management
‐ Sosiocultural
Roadsandtransportinfrastructure
Urbandrainage
Powersupplyandcommunicationsystems
Low
risehousing:
• Lesspressureontechnicalinfrastructure
• Roadsandtransportinfrastructurerequiremuchspace
High
risehousing:
• Strictlyrequiresenoughinvestintechnicalinfrastructure
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