1st Edition

Small-Scale Public Transportable and Pre-Fabricated Buildings Evaluating their Functional Performance

By Junjie Xi Copyright 2018
260 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates the design, operation and use of contemporary transportable buildings, and explores how functional performance can be assessed in small-scale examples for public use alongside their relationship to other design elements. The research focuses on three case studies, Chengdu Hualin Elementary School, Exxopolis and Kreod, that do not require a high-technology building... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Part I Current Position

Chapter 1 Key Factors in the Design and Operation of Public Transportable Buildings

    1. List of Definitions

1.2 Key Factors

      1. Function
      2. Finance
      3. Timescale
      4. Aesthetics

1.2.4.1 Visual Appearance

1.2.4.2 Acceptability to the Users

1.2.4.3 Appropriateness and Building Sites

Chapter 2 Analysing the Relationships between Public Transportable Buildings and Sites through Selected Examples

2.1. Projects Deployed in a Single Location

2.2. Projects Deployed in Multiple Locations

Part II Review and Synthesis of Analysis and Evaluation Methods

Chapter 3 A Conceptual Model for Evaluation

Chapter 4 A Review of the Existing Analysis and Evaluation Methods

4.1. Guidelines Developed by City Councils and Cultural Sectors

4.2. Assessment Methods in Humanitarian Response

4.3. Monitoring and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

4.4. Methods in Environmental Assessment

Chapter 5 The Role of Evaluation in the Public Transportable Building Design Process

5.1 Functional Performance Evaluation Principles

5.2 The Evaluation Process

5.2.1 Pre-Occupancy Evaluation

5.2.2 Monitoring

5.2.3 Post-Occupancy Evaluation

 

Part III Case Studies

Chapter 6 Chengdu Hualin Elementary School

Chapter 7 Exxopolis – an Architects of Air Project

Chapter 8 Kreod

Part IV Conclusions

Chapter 9 Key Findings

Chapter 10 Limitations and Further Research

Biography

Junjie Xi is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. She graduated with a PhD in Architecture from the University of Liverpool in 2013, and continues this research through her ongoing collaboration with Liverpool’s School of Architecture, where she is an Honorary Research Fellow. She is also a researcher for the China Railway Group Ltd and School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. The research outputs will be used by China Railway Group Ltd in its construction work in the near future.