Shanghai Exhibition in Urban Best Practices Area Shanghai-EcoHousing

Case: “Shanghai-EcoHousing”
Location: Residential Case Group in North UBPA
Building Area: Around 3,000 Square Meters
Key Words: Ecological, Environmental Protection, Zero Energy Consumption
Case Prototype:
“Shanghai-EcoHousing” is developed on the basis of the first ecological demonstration building in China, which is located in Minhang District, the city of Shanghai. As a “zero energy consumption” building, it features the efficient utilization of solar energy. The large solar panels on top of the roof can provide energy for the whole building.
The louver outside the window, the roller shutter out of the glass curtain, and the movable awning out of the balcony, all in red color, constitute the “outer sunshade system”, which can fend off the sunshine, thus lowering the temperature by insulating against heat, in hot summer.
The blue tubes spreading over the wall are geothermal heat pumps that use geothermal energy to regulate the indoor temperature. The fluid flowing in the tubes elevates the geo-heat from the underground soil to raise the indoor temperature, just like a central air-conditioning system.
Highlights of Technology:
“Shanghai-EcoHousing” will take advantage of many green, environment-friendly and energy-saving technologies, such as the integrated solar energy system, natural lighting / ventilation and LED lighting facilities, techniques for comprehensive utilization of rainwater and sewage, building automation system, and shallow-layer geothermal energy application technology, to reflect the eco-housing philosophy of sustainable development while searching for the universally-recognized housing styles.
Highlights of the Site:
The exhibition will highlight the identity of participation, experience and fun in eco-housing technologies, to weave “a travel through time and space” with clues in the past, present and future.
“Shanghai-EcoHousing”, to satisfy such functional requirements as large visitor flows, will make intelligent use of the underground space to accommodate exhibition halls and a cinema on water , for the purpose of tracing the evolution of housing and seeking the eco-life styles in the future.