Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures Impacts on Architecture and Technology Energy Systems

Energy Systems Stamatina Th. Rassia Panos M. Pardalos Editors Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures Impacts on Architecture and Technology Energy Systems Series Editor: Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8368 Stamatina Th. Rassia Panos M. Pardalos Editors Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures Impacts on Architecture and Technology 123 Editors Stamatina Th. Rassia Panos M. Pardalos ETH Zürich University of Florida Department of Architecture Department of Industrial and Systems Institute of Technology in Architecture Engineering Zürich Gainesville, Florida Switzerland USA ISSN 1867-8998 ISSN 1867-9005 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-37660-3 ISBN 978-3-642-37661-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37661-0 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013945548 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 This work is subject to copyright. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface Urbanism and the design of Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures form the basis of an ongoing effort upon which interdisciplinary architectural planning and philosophy as well as engineering design are developed. As cities are aimed nowadays to be ever smarter, they are designed to offer competitive, remarkable and resourceful environments for the future. As such, cities may offer alternatives between energy strategies and optimization theories of mega- spaces in a territory or a landscape. Designing or redeveloping the city blueprint for today and for the future is and has been an open question in the architectural and engineering fields. By the use of the words smart, energy and future, in connection with a city, it is desired to present a variety of viewpoints about the operational efficiency and the living conditions in a city. Design objectives lead to an “in-process” or to an entirely complete smartness. Cities could be examined as environments of systemic change, as unified technological advancements, as historic sites, as high-rise or low-rise and formal or informal developments. They may appear branded, as zero-carbon, sustainable, eco, bionic, network, digital and ubiquitous. These form only a subset of the multitude of themes that exist or are referred to currently in the scientific community. Such themes, whether for complete or in-development process, coexist on a scientific platform that may offer the basis upon which new challenges could be addressed. The chapters comprising this book are aiming to engage in further research and innovative practices. In this book, cities are examined from the macro to the micro level, from the sustainable city development to the human scale and further to the structural material properties and formation. Cities are presented to be invincible and utopic but also to have the magnetism of a digital dream. They are questioned further for their complex and conflicting ideologies, and they are analyzed in relation to disaster relief and indoor urbanism, sustainable remedies for building conservation and climate change as well as sustainable user mobility and accessibility. In this process of interdisciplinary scientific enquiry, the present book offers a common framework where international experts present theories and new results, v vi Preface novel ideas, concepts and research findings, as these relate to the city of the past, of today and of tomorrow. We would like to express our special thanks to all the authors of the chapters contributed in this volume. Last but not least, we wish to acknowledge the superb assistance that the staff of Springer has provided during the preparation of this publication. Zurich, Switzerland Stamatina Th. Rassia Florida, USA Panos M. Pardalos Contents A Time and a Place for Everything ............................................ 1 Frank Duffy Smart Cities of Tomorrow....................................................... 9 Paul Budde Rethinking Urban Landscapes: Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology and Territory ....................................................... 21 Mitchell Joachim and Melanie Fessel Invincible Cities for the Materiomic Age ...................................... 53 Magnus Larsson and Alex Kaiser Qualitative Affects of Building Life Cycle: The Formation of Architectural Matter.......................................................... 99 Robert Stuart-Smith Other Cities ....................................................................... 113 Mark Raymond Urban Parangole´ ................................................................. 131 Lindsey Sherman, Michael Contento, Alfredo Brillembourg, and Hubert Klumpner High Performance Buildings: Measures, Complexity, and Current Trends .............................................................. 151 Bryan Eisenhower Eco-cities: The Role of Networks of Green and Blue Spaces ................ 163 Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira Decarbonising City Precincts: An Australian Perspective................... 177 Jessica Bunning, Colin Beattie, Vanessa Rauland, and Peter Newman vii viii Contents The Rebirth of Distance in the Context of Urban Sustainability ........... 197 Kobe Boussauw, Richard Hanley, and Frank Witlox Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures: Urban Heat Island Mitigation Techniques for Sustainable Cities................... 213 Konstantina Vasilakopoulou, Denia Kolokotsa, and Mattheos Santamouris Building Conservation Towards a Sustainable Future: Use of GPR ....... 233 Zeynep Aygen and Gokhan¨ Kılıç Evaluation of the Shading Efficiency of the Shading Devices Installed in the Tram Stations in Athens ...................................... 243 Christos Gousis and Ioannis Tzouvadakis Modeling and Control of Large and Flexible Wind Turbines in Variable Speed Mode ......................................................... 257 Wei Lin and Xinghua Liu Sustainable Design for Campus Residential Housing ........................ 269 Smita Rakshit and Anthony Filipovitch House Biographies: Housing Studies on the Smallest Urban Scale......... 281 Eveline Althaus and Marie Antoinette Glaser For the Smarter Good of Cities: On Cities, Complexity and Slippages in the Smart City Discourse.................................... 289 Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel Contributors Eveline Althaus ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE Centre for Research on Architec- ture, Society & the Built Environment, Zürich, Switzerland, [email protected] Zeynep Aygen Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, Aygen [email protected] Colin Beattie Curtin University, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP), Bentley, Australia, [email protected] Kobe Boussauw Ghent University, Geography Department, Krijgslaan 281, S8 9000, Gent, Belgium Alfredo Brillembourg ETH Zurich, D–ARCH, Urban-Think Tank Chair, Zurich, Switzerland, [email protected] Paul Budde BuddeComm, Bucketty, NSW, Australia, [email protected] Jessica Bunning Curtin University, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Insti- tute (CUSP), Bentley, Australia, [email protected] Gousis Christos National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, [email protected] Michael Contento ETH Zurich, D–ARCH, Urban-Think Tank Chair, Zurich, Switzerland, [email protected] Frank Duffy CBE, Architect, Independent Consultant, London, UK, [email protected] Bryan Eisenhower University of California, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Energy Efficient Design, Santa Barbara, USA, [email protected] Melanie Fessel Terreform ONE, Brooklyn, USA, [email protected] Anthony Filipovitch Minnesota State University, Urban & Regional Studies Institute, Mankato, USA, [email protected] ix x Contributors Marie Antoinette Glaser ETH CASE, Centre for Research on Architecture,

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