Complexity and Contradiction in Intelligent Green Architecture －The S-House as an example

Abstract

AbstractThe development of Taiwan’s information and communications industries, and the application of information and communications technology to civil applications, has made the achievement “intelligent green architecture” a worthy goal. Nevertheless, how should we define “intelligent green architecture”? Furthermore, the question of how to resolve the complexity and contradiction between the natures of intelligence and green in architecture has become an important contemporary research issue. This study advocates the use of intelligence in intelligent green architecture to coordinate and manage the complex and contradictory needs among occupants and building environment or environmental factors, and thereby achieve the goal of “greenness.” Taking the S-house project as an example, an intelligent design employing air pressure difference switch sensors, computing and communications technology, and thermal buoyancy ventilation towers, was able to actively correct the ventilation performance exceptions of ...