Nexus of Plants, Architecture, and Future Resilient Societies
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2019) | Viewed by 346
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nature-based solutions; urban agriculture; biomimicry; building energy performance modelling; low/zero carbon buildings
Interests: crop physiology, genetics and environmental impact of temperate and tropical grasses; environmental stress, and strategies for adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change
Interests: sustainable building design; energy positive buildings; energy modelling; healthcare buildings; retrofit of buildings
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Interests: biomaterials; timber; maechanics; decay
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants have been used as renewable energy sources and raw materials, a source of design inspiration, and grown in cities to improve thermal comforts, air quality, human health, and well-being. However, demostrating the impact of plants on buildings and cities is a complex phenomenon. This Special Issue seeks to revisit the nexus of plants, architecture, and resilient cities.
Architecture has the challenge to provide society with a future resilient built environment that is efficient in its use of resources, effective in providing good conditions in which to live and work, and pleasing to the senses. Plants offer a number of possibilities to help inform future sustainable and resilient building design and urban planning solutions.
In future resilient cities we may need to consider not just how to use more bio-materials but also how some crop production can occur within them. This is beginning to happen and brings advantages in terms of sustainability through reducing transportation costs, as well as improving the city environment through aesthetic and health benefits. Modern technologies such as photovoltaics and LED lighting also mean that future buildings will be able to generate and store electricity that can be used to grow plants and crops in areas of poor or no light. We will study the use of plants on buildings, including green roofs and walls, which can reduce the energy demand of buildings and the urban heat island affect where city temperatures, particularly in the summer, can rise significantly compared to the surrounding countryside. In this Special Issue, we seek to improve our understanding of the overall sustainability of buildings and plants as well as novel aproaches to make our future societies greener, smarter, and more resilient.
Dr. Yangang Xing
Prof. Iain Donnison
Prof. Phil Jones
Dr. Graham Ormondroyd
Dr. Peter Wootton-Beard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioclimatic building design and city planing
- Green roofs and green walls
- Nature-based solutions
- Food
- Urban agriculture and vertical farming
- Biomaterials
- Circular bio-economies
- Biomimicry and biomimetics
- Urban microclimates
- Resilient societies
