Reported by: MU Ye
Translated by: XU Lianxin
Edited by: Jennifer Taylor
Updated: 2013/5/5
April 1st to 2nd at the 2013 International Solar Building Design Competition Final Evaluation Conference held in Beijing, a group of masters students in the School of Architecture won the First Prize with their work Zhubo·Zhuri (Store the Sunshine & Follow the Sun). Another piece of work Rong·Guang (Blending-Light) from a team in the school won a Honorable Mention Prize. The awards were voted on by the experts at home and abroad.
The unanimously praised work Zhubo·Zhuri, jointly designed by MEI Lan, WANG Jiao, LI Haiying, MA Liandong and CUI Peng, focuses on the overall design and a modern practical layout. Active and passive solar energy technologies are comprehensively applied to the design, allowing effective solar energy integration.
In describing their work, the team said, that just as the name Zhuri implies, the work shows that a person's life from childhood to old age is like a day from sunrise to sunset. The elderly are eager to feel warm and to follow the sun, so they sought to put more care into the design of the rehabilitation center for them. Besides, the word Zhuri is also embodied in the integration of the solar building design. Under the instruction of their teacher SHI Ligang and Professor and Doctoral Advisor LI Guiwen, they combined the broken line shape of the light wave and the relevant building technology to make the most of the solar energy. As well as the application of active and passive solar energy technology, there are also new ventilation systems, a ground source heat pump cooling and heating system, a rainwater collection and normal water return technology and heat reclaim unit to create a comfortable indoor physical environment for the doctors and patients and to reduce energy consumption, conserve resources and build a low-carbon and low-power eco-building.
The 2013 International Solar Building Design Competition was organized by the International Solar Energy Society and the China Renewable Energy Society and it was based on the Sino-German Public Building Energy Efficiency program by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The theme of the competition was renovation of an existing hospital, the Qingdao Haici Hospital with part of the renovated hospital becoming the city rehabilitation center for the convalescent and other needy elderly. The competition requirements were to fully consider active and passive solar energy technology and to minimize conventional energy consumption. The competition awarded two First Prizes, four Second Prizes, six Third Prizes and multiple Honorable Mention Prizes and Special Awards.
