Modular Building Complex with Venting Support Structure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building complexes and buildings are complex and costly to construct, requiring significant footprints that hinder air circulation, making them inefficient and inflexible in design.
Innovation Solution
Designing buildings with standardized basic sizes that can be easily assembled into various configurations using straight and curved sections, supported by minimal-footprint venting systems, allowing for modular and adaptable construction while ensuring air circulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If buildings are designed with standardized basic sizes for modular assembly, then ease of manufacture and adaptability are improved, but design flexibility and architectural complexity are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The building is divided into multiple stories that can be independently manufactured and assembled. Each story has a standardized basic size, allowing modular construction while maintaining the ability to create complex architectural forms through different combinations and arrangements of these standardized modules.
2Stability of the object's composition
If buildings require considerable footprint, then structural stability is improved, but available land area for other purposes is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The building utilizes vertical space by stacking multiple stories one above another. This dimensional transition from horizontal expansion to vertical development reduces the footprint required on the ground while maintaining adequate structural stability through the stacked configuration and support structures.
3Area of stationary object
If buildings are placed close together to optimize land use, then land utilization is improved, but air circulation and microclimate are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The building is segmented into multiple stories with vertical gaps and openings between them. This segmentation creates channels for air circulation to flow vertically and horizontally through the building structure, allowing adequate ventilation and microclimate management even when buildings are positioned close together on the land.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables cost-effective, variable, and efficient building design with improved microclimate management by allowing flexible assembly and reuse of building components, optimizing space utilization and air flow.
Implementation Method 1
the venting space is part of an air circulation flowing about the building
Data Source
AI summary
In building complexes of at least two buildings, the buildings each have a basic size in width direction and in length direction. The length and width of the building correspond to the basic size or to a multiple of this basic size. In buildings with at least two stories, in particular in a building complex, the building has at its bottom side at least one support that supports the building with formation of a venting space between the ground and the building bottom side. The venting space is part of an air circulation flowing about the building.