High-Rise House Structure with Vertical Private Gardens
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-rise urban buildings lack green spaces and natural light, leading to dull and lifeless environments, poor privacy, and safety issues due to the design of reinforced concrete structures, which disconnect residents from nature and hinder sunlight penetration.
Innovation Solution
A house construction structure that incorporates odd-numbered and even-numbered floors with vertically corresponding outdoor private gardens, strategically located on outer walls to maximize space and light exposure, ensuring privacy and security while allowing direct sunlight into rooms, and integrating with above-ground parking platforms for efficient use of space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If outdoor private gardens are added to high-rise buildings, then green space and living quality are improved, but land occupation and construction costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from horizontal land occupation to vertical space utilization by attaching outdoor private gardens to the exterior surfaces of high-rise buildings. Gardens are positioned on outer walls and distributed across multiple floors, transforming the building's vertical envelope into productive green space. This dimensional shift allows dense urban environments to incorporate nature without expanding the building footprint.
Solution Approach 2:
The outdoor private gardens are nested within the building's vertical structure, with each garden unit integrated into the building's facade system. The gardens are positioned between floors and wrapped around the building's core, creating a nested configuration where green spaces are embedded within the architectural envelope rather than occupying separate land areas.
2Adaptability or versatility
If outdoor private gardens are added to high-rise buildings, then green space and living quality are improved, but construction costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The building facade is segmented into modular units, each containing an outdoor private garden. These standardized modules can be manufactured off-site and assembled systematically, reducing construction complexity and costs. The segmentation allows for economies of scale in garden component production and simplifies maintenance access.
Solution Approach 2:
The outdoor private gardens serve multiple functions simultaneously: they provide green space for residents, improve building insulation, manage rainwater through sponge city principles, and enhance aesthetic value. This multi-functionality justifies the construction investment by delivering multiple benefits from a single structural addition.
3Adaptability or versatility
If private yards are built on lower floors, then green space is provided, but upper-floor houses lose privacy and security
Solution Approach 1:
Each outdoor private garden is designed as a localized, enclosed space with its own unique characteristics and boundaries. The gardens on different floors have distinct spatial qualities and are separated by vertical distance, ensuring that each resident enjoys private green space without direct visual access to neighboring gardens. This local differentiation maintains privacy while providing universal green space access.
4Adaptability or versatility
If two-storey private yards are constructed, then green space is increased, but windows of upper-floor houses are blocked, creating black houses
Solution Approach 1:
The green space is positioned on the building's exterior facade rather than extending horizontally in front of windows. By attaching gardens to outer walls and distributing them across multiple elevations, the design allows sunlight to penetrate windows from directions not blocked by the gardens, maintaining illumination while providing vertical green space.
Solution Approach 2:
The outdoor private gardens are asymmetrically positioned on outer walls rather than symmetrically in front of each unit. This asymmetric arrangement strategically places green spaces on building corners and edges, maximizing light penetration to windows while still providing adequate green space coverage. The asymmetric configuration prevents uniform blocking of sunlight across all units.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a house construction structure including: an odd-numbered floor, an even-numbered floor and outdoor private gardens. Living rooms of each odd-floor house and each even-floor house which are vertically corresponding to each other, are vertically corresponding to each other; each living room is provided with one outdoor private garden. The outdoor private gardens of all living rooms of odd-floor houses which are vertically corresponding to each other, are vertically corresponding to each other and are located in an identical first direction; the outdoor private gardens of all living rooms of even-houses which are vertically corresponding to the odd-floor houses, are vertically corresponding to each other and are located in an identical second direction. Each living room of each house is located at an outer wall corner of each house; each living room of each house includes at least one outer wall corner and at least two adjacent outer walls in different directions, so that private gardens of each odd-floor house and each even-floor house which are vertically corresponding to each other, are disposed on the two adjacent outer walls of the respective living rooms of each odd-floor house and each even-floor house which are vertically corresponding to each other, and located in two different directions.