Episode 3 Environmentally Friendly Buildings (Part 2)|Taiwan Green Building Materials and Sustainable Design

Speakers in this episode: Professor Shao Wenzheng from the Center for Innovative Green Building Materials R&D and Promotion of Beijing University of Science and Technology, Professor Wu Xiyan from the D&A Lab of the Department of Architecture at National United University, and Huang Yizhan, CEO of Jinglian Technology Co., Ltd. (ordered according to the order of appearance 
in the video )

 In the video “Environmentally Friendly Buildings (Part 1)”, Chairman Huang Xiumin, Professor Shao Wenzheng and Architect Guo Yingzhao shared with us how, as architects, we face environmental issues such as climate change and ecological destruction. At this time, how can you contribute and think about the possibility of sustainable architecture in the future?
     After taking over from the three speakers, this episode continues in the form of a “Sustainable Building Symposium”, inviting Professor Shao Wenzheng, Professor Wu Xiyan and CEO Huang Yizhan to share how they are committed to “Taiwan’s green building materials and sustainable construction”. “Continuous design” to enhance environmental friendliness.


Environmentally friendly buildings: Professor Shao Wenzheng from the Innovative Green Building Materials R&D and Promotion Center of Beijing University of Science and Technology


    The “Green Building Materials Label” has been promoted in Taiwan for some time and has developed four major indicators: “health”, “ecology”, “regeneration” and “high performance”. However, Professor Shao Wenzheng believes that the green building materials label can be revised The better! Because there are still many very good building materials in Taiwan, which not only meet the requirements of green building materials in terms of performance, but also can reuse resources at the level of a more advanced circular economy. It is hoped that architectural design and materials can move towards sustainable technology. Next, let’s look at the following two examples.

 The first material is “red mud paint”. Professor Shao Wenzheng’s experimental team discovered that it is an adaptive material that is available in Taiwan. Its performance is equivalent to that of a dehumidifier, which helps control the humidity of the space. The material texture also adds points to the color light in the space. Professor Shao Wenzheng said: “To a certain extent, this kind of red clay paint still comes from the Tujiao House in our past. It is a modified and adjusted application in the building, which can not only continue the tradition, but also It can be closer to people and the land and the environment, and it is also a healthy material.”

The second material is “oyster shell” (called “oyster shell” in Hokkien). We often throw away the shells after eating oysters. The piles of oyster shells will produce a foul odor after a long time, affecting environmental sanitation and tourism. However, Professor Shao Wenzheng said: “If oyster shells are called waste, the furnace stone powder from the blast furnace of the steel plant is also a waste.” Because after adding the furnace stone powder and alkali solution to the oyster shells, they are then polymerized, high-pressure shaped, and demolded. It is in line with the practice of high-pressure red clay bricks or permeable bricks.

     Professor Shao Wenzheng’s experimental team also discovered that after this kind of brick is destroyed, it can be remade using the original production method, and the hardness of the brick is harder than the original one! This is very important. From the perspective of circular economy and recycling, this is called “non-degraded manufacturing”, which means that bricks made from oyster shells will not become garbage one day because of continuous recycling.

     Using the concept of circular economy, through experimentation and design of creative building materials, we turn “garbage into gold” to promote the transformation of Taiwan’s green building materials label into “innovative green and healthy technology” and enhance the sustainable development of Taiwan’s urban architecture. This is innovative green The purpose and goals of the Building Materials R&D and Promotion Center.


Educating the next generation on “sustainable architectural design”: Professor Wu Xiyan, D&A Lab, National United University

Professor Wu Xiyan of D&A Lab has led students to engage in “architectural design” for many years. His research direction is mainly on sustainable “future design”, using an architectural perspective to think about how to combine and match with the environment. These architectural research and design works have won many international awards through special techniques such as biosynthesis and AI artificial intelligence. For example, City Turntable, the winning entry in the 2015 OISTAT International Theater Architectural Design Competition, designed a theater built on a river, allowing the river to directly drive the theater waterwheel and automatically transfer the scene to the audience.

  In response to the landslides that are common in Taiwan, the design of the ISARCH International Image Competition Jury Special Award “SKIN AREA – Suture Regeneration of Multi-layered Skin” uses the areas paralyzed by landslides as It is a wound and a pattern of healing. Its design itself is like a cover. When the soil collapses, the building’s cover will automatically close up, so the residents inside can still go in and out without being affected. It is a design that co-exists with the local area.

In response to the design idea of ​​storing lightning power, teacher Wu Xiyan and her students tried to modify some existing electricity towers in cities or countryside, and added some power collection processing and designs on them, so that lightning could hit the towers and collect electricity at the same time. Convert. As for the converted electrical energy, it can also be stored directly in a pure lithium battery energy storage plant in the lower half of the tower.

The last example, “Giant Water Tower”, was inspired by Taiwan’s water resources issues. In recent years, Taiwan has faced extreme weather conditions, sometimes drought and sometimes heavy rains. The heavy rains fell too quickly, but there was no time to retain them. Therefore, teacher Wu Xiyan and her students designed the water tower as a large plant, which is planted in the soil and uses its roots to absorb and store water.


Teacher Wu Xi-yan said: “These scales are very huge fantasies, and they are some possibilities for future architecture.” As seen before, Taiwan’s development technology is not worse than other countries. The biggest difference is that students’ creativity and imagination need Lead it out slowly. In this way, they will be able to break through the imaginative framework of today’s media information, begin to understand how to talk about them, and finally understand the importance of sustainability issues and implement them into a design that can be realized.


Establishing an “Energy Saving” Platform: Huang Yizhan, CEO of Jinglian Technology Co., Ltd.


     Huang Yizhan, CEO of Jinglian Technology, believes that how to “save energy and reduce carbon emissions” in life can be divided into two directions. The first direction is to make your current energy use more efficient; the second direction is how to introduce more renewable energy into our daily lives and even into the production and manufacturing process. Therefore, what Jinglian Technology wants to do is to establish a “home-based” system integration platform and apply this “energy-saving” platform to buildings.

CEO Huang Yizhan said: “What we are creating is a Win Win Win.” For consumers, this building can save energy and reduce carbon without reducing its quality of life; for builders, it can also Earn more profits without raising the selling price; for equipment suppliers, they can also get the concept behind the “Benzhu” integrated platform to improve their services. This is the integrated platform for energy conservation and carbon reduction that Jinglian has always wanted to promote in Taiwan.

     For Taiwanese, maybe 90% of them agree on the importance of energy conservation and carbon reduction, but when we further ask, “How much are you willing to spend to help the earth?” we probably won’t get any positive responses. . Thinking that energy conservation and carbon reduction are important, but not wanting to spend time, money or other costs, may take some time to slowly accumulate and correct through education.

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