Integration of Traditional Chinese Building Concepts with Contemporary Ecological Design Considerations: a Case for High-Rise Wood Buildings
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Integration of Traditional Chinese Building Concepts with Contemporary Ecological Design Considerations: A Case for High-rise Wood Buildings Item Type text; Electronic Thesis Authors Zhuo, Xiaoying Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 10/10/2021 11:25:58 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622897 INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE BUILDING CONCEPTS WITH CONTEM- PORARY ECOLOGICAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS: A CASE FOR HIGH-RISE WOOD BUILDINGS by Xiaoying Zhuo ____________________________ Copyright © Xiaoying Zhuo 2016 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2016 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR The thesis titled Integration of Traditional Chinese Building Concepts with Contempo- rary Ecological Design Considerations: A Case for High-rise Wood Buildings prepared by Xiaoying Zhuo has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a master’s degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this thesis are allowable without special permission, provided that an accurate acknowledgement of the source is made. Requests for permission for ex- tended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his or her judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other in- stances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: Xiaoying Zhuo APPROVAL BY THESIS DIRECTOR This thesis has been approved on the date shown below: 12/09/2016 Shane Ida Smith, Ph.D. Defense date Assistant Professor of Architecture 2 AKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Shane Ida Smith, as chair of my thesis committee, for her patience, motivation, and immense knowledge. Her guidance help me in all times of research and writing of thesis, overcoming numerous obstacles I have facing. I am also grateful to the rest of my thesis committee members, Professor Christopher Domin and Edu- ardo Guerrero, for their patience, supports and insightful comments. And Benjamin Lepley for his participation and constructive suggestions. My sincere thanks also go to the University of Arizona, School of Architecture for providing me a perfect place for my graduate study and my research. I thank my classmates for being so friendly and helpful both in everyday life and study. A special thanks to Homeiraalsadat MirhosseiniArdakani for her generous help. Last but not least, I would like to thank my parents for supporting me spiritually and physically in my life. 3 TABLE OF CONTENT STATEMENT BY AUTHOR ....................................................................................................................... 2 AKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................................. 3 TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................................................................ 4 LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................................... 6 ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................................. 9 1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 10 1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 10 1.2 Region and Environmental Pollution .......................................................................................... 12 1.3 Wood and Climate Change ......................................................................................................... 14 1.4 High-rise Buildings and Urbanization ........................................................................................ 15 2 RESEARCH BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................... 17 2.1 Wood Building Material ............................................................................................................. 17 2.1.1 Cross Laminated Timber (CLT).......................................................................................... 18 2.1.2 Nail Laminated Timber (NLT) ........................................................................................... 19 2.1.3 Glued Laminated Timber (Glulam) .................................................................................... 20 2.1.4 Structural Composite Lumber (SCL) .................................................................................. 22 2.1.5 Properties of Pressured Timber ........................................................................................... 23 2.2 Wood Material Source ................................................................................................................ 24 2.3 Traditional Chinese Building Concepts ...................................................................................... 26 2.3.1 Example one - Multi-Generations Residential House, Fujian, Fuzhou, China ................... 26 2.3.2 Example Two - Chinese Garden - Humble Administrator’s Garden .................................. 31 2.3.3 Example Three - Chinese Pagoda - Pagoda of Fogong Temple ......................................... 33 2.4 Contemporary Tall Wood Buildings ........................................................................................... 34 2.4.1 Example One - High-rise Residence – STADTHAUS ....................................................... 35 2.4.2 Example Two – High-rise student Residence – Brock Commons Phase 1 ......................... 37 2.4.3 Example Three – High-rise Residence – Treet ................................................................... 39 2.4.4 Example Four – First Modern Tall Wood Building in USA– T3 Minneapolis Office Building 41 3 INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION IN WOODEN BUILDING ................................................. 42 3.1 Building Structure ....................................................................................................................... 42 3.2 Details and Joineries ................................................................................................................... 43 3.2.1 History of traditional joineries in China .............................................................................. 44 4 3.2.2 Modern of joineries ............................................................................................................. 47 3.2.3 Integration of Wood Joints .................................................................................................. 48 4 EXPERIMENT AND ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 52 4.1 Base Case .................................................................................................................................... 52 5 FUTURE WORK ................................................................................................................................ 61 APPENDIX ................................................................................................................................................. 63 Appendix A: China Air Quality Index .................................................................................................... 63 Appendix B: Excerpt of 2015 International Building Code of Wooden Structure ................................. 64 Appendix C: Excerpt of ANSI/APA PRG 320-2012: Standard for Performance-Rated Cross-Laminated Timber ..................................................................................................................................................... 68 Appendix D: Excerpt of Glued Laminated Beam Design Table-S475 ................................................... 70 Appendix E: Excerpt of Design of Structural Glued Laminated Timber Columns-EWS-Y240 ............ 71 Appendix F: Comparison of Material Properties .................................................................................... 71 BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................................................... 73 Ecological Architecture .......................................................................................................................... 73 Traditional Chinese Building .................................................................................................................. 74 Tall Buildings .......................................................................................................................................... 74 5 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1.1 Research Contents and Interrelationships .............................................................................