Mass Retrofitting of an Energy Efficient Low Carbon Zone

Oye, Tosin Taiye

Abstract

By way of urban morphology, the design, layout and texture of district centres, neighbourhoods and buildings have as much a bearing on levels of energy consumption and rates of carbon emission as either buildings or their occupation: these recent discoveries propose urban morphology matters and both the design, layout and texture of district centres, neighbourhoods and buildings are as significant in setting levels of energy consumption and rates of carbon emission as the occupation and use of such structures. This thesis aims to reinforce this message and demonstrate how urban morphology does make a difference. Not only with respect to the geometry (i.e. surface and volume of the building design typologies), construction systems, or occupational behaviours, that such studies drawn particular attention to,but with regards to a matter which has been previously ignored. That is with regards to the potential which the planning, (re)development, design and layout of district centres and their neighbourhoods as context-specific transformations have, to not only lower levels of energy consumption and rate of carbon emission, but to uncover the significance of and particular contribution renewables makes to the mass retrofit proposals currently underway across Europe.
The approach this thesis presented adopts a key-component-based analysis ofrenewables in mass retrofit proposals and procedural modelling the geometry of thisurban morphology is founded on. As an exercise in procedural modelling, the keycomponent analysis also accounts for the renewables of mass retrofits in relation to the context of the application and with respect to the urban from of the buildings andtheir integration into the proposal. This in turn allows for the findings of this study to interpret the significance renewables take in the mass retrofit proposal, energy consumption and carbon emissions, it in turn generates as an energy efficient-low carbon zone and able to tackle global warming and combat climate change.
In this way, the thesis uncovers the significance of renewable as a source of clean energy in mass retrofit proposal and particular contribution it makes to levels of energy consumption and carbon emission. It means that for this thesis renewables are the key components of the mass retrofit it promotes to reduce levels of energy consumption and lower carbon emission, vis-à-vis establish energy efficient-low carbon zones as an exercise in the development of sustainable suburbs whose status as city-districts not only tackle global warming but also combat climate change

Citation

Oye, T. T. Mass Retrofitting of an Energy Efficient Low Carbon Zone. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1500115

• Thesis Type: Thesis
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 11, 2019
• Keywords: Buildings, consumption, urban morphology
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1500115
• Award Date: Jun 27, 2018