Integration Of Urban Architecture And Agricultural Planting

The study attempts to find the way, suitable for high-density cities andconforming to sustainable principles, in which agricultural plantings and citybuildings are integrated. On one hand, agricultural production can take advantage ofbuilding space and indoor environmental regulation resources, and adopt spacetechnology to improve the space and energy efficiency of agricultural production. Onthe other hand, indoor environment is protected by agricultural planting space, whichhelps to reduce building energy consumption. The architecture is neither a verticalfarm nor a building with roof gardens or greenhouses, but the certain type of buildingswhose users are both crops and humans.By analyzing the current forms of Agriculture for Buildings, the different typesof farming activities’ characteristics and relationships with the architecture aresummed up (Chapter2). Accordingly, the multi-function architecture, used by bothhuman and crops, is raised up, which is employed from the concept‘Building-Integrated Agriculture’. By comparing the physiological requirements ofhumans and crops, the basis and methods of farming, combined with urbanarchitecture, is determined, based on the common temperature needs. Then, onaccount of the different lighting needs, plantings should occupy the space in thebuilding with high illumination intensity and long sunshine duration (Chapter3).Because of climatic differences, the suitable Building-Integrated Agriculture modesand spatial forms vary relevantly. Based on the analysis of the factors of agriculturalproduction and building, the two supply relationships are extracted, including theneeds of agricultural production and construction resources, the protection of farmingand construction needs. When the needs match to the resources, theBuilding-Integration Agriculture operating mode, corresponding to local conditions,could be determined (Chapter4). Finally, taking collective dwellings in Beijing areaas research objects, the appropriate BIA run-time, from the mid-to-late October to thefollowing mid-to-late April, is proposed, with specific characteristics of agriculturalproduction and definite building types. Then the agricultural planting space shouldadopt the operation principles of heliogreenhouses, deducing the ideal BIA space form(Chapter5), and raising problems of agricultural planting space in current residential buildings. Through natural lighting and temperature condition measurement of indoorand enclosed balcony spaces in winter, spring and summer, where is potential orexisting used as agricultural planting, some measuring points’ environment conditionmeets the needs of crops during the BIA run-time, which are suitable for agriculturalproduction (Chapter6and7). In addition, the environmental conditions for plantingspace are also analyzes, giving birth to improving measures and spatial proposals(Chapter8).