Green Building

Greenhouse A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse) is a building where plants are grown. These struc-tures range in size from small sheds to very large buildings. A miniature greenhouse is known as a cold frame.

A greenhouse is a struc-ture with different types of covering materials, such as a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls

A greenhouse is a structure with different types of covering materials, such as a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls; it heats up because incoming visible so-lar radiation (for which the glass is transpar-ent) from the sun is absorbed by plants, soil, and other things inside the building.

Air warmed by the heat from hot inte-rior surfaces is retained in the building by the roof and wall. In addition, the warmed structures and plants inside the greenhouse re-radiate some of their thermal energy in the infra-red, to which glass is partly opaque, so some of this energy is also trapped in-side the glasshouse.

The multi-use building, which is expected to earn a LEED Gold Certificate, offers an appealing aesthetic which will easily make its mark 0n Dubais dynamic skyline.

The buildings are self-shaded on the northern side and on the east-west axis to reduce long-angle sun penetration. Solar collectors on the south end automatically pivot to maximize solar-energy ag-gregation.

The futuristic angular forms create a shared central space with large pools, while the compositional assemblage of the in-dividual buildings form a cohesive whole. Graft Labs latest addition to Dubai, entitled Vertical Village, is a cluster of mix-use buildings that emphasize reducing solar gain and maximiz-ing solar production.

Uses Greenhouses protect crops from too much heat or cold, shield plants from dust storms and blizzards, and help to keep out pests. Light and tem-perature control allows greenhouses to turn inarable land into arable land, there by improving food production in mar-ginal environments.

Because greenhouses allow certain crops to be grown throughout the year, greenhouses are increasingly im-portant in the food supply of high latitude countries. One of the largest greenhouse complexes in the world is in Almeria, Spain, where greenhouses cover almost 50,000 acres (200 km2). Sometimes called the sea of plastics.

Greenhouses are often used for growing flowers, vege-tables, fruits, and tobacco plants. Bumblebees are the pollinators of choice for most greenhouse pollination, although other types of bees have been used, as well as artificial pollination. Hydroponics can be used in green-houses as well to make the most use of the interior space.

The main focus of designing Vertical Village concept was to enjoy village living without taking a lot of lands that we usu-ally see in traditional villages which can be realized pretty easily with the massive structure of the concept. The houses are envisioned as cells with largest possible usable area both in vertical and horizontal direction, based on their project done in The Why Factory studio of professor Winy Maas, at the TU Delft. The system has defined both practi-cal and dramatic spaces to make a bridge between orthogo-nal surfaces and irregular zones that may be required by the residents for different purposes. The 3D plots give each family the opportunity to choose where and how they would like to place their house. The circular cell design has made it possible. Finally, the concept will certainly have some positive effect on the massive land crisis mankind is going to experience in near future.

Vertical Village Brings Energy

In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has always main-tained a reputation as the center of excess and oil money gone away, while Abu Dhabi's Masdar City has emerged as the UAE's sustainable core. But Dubai's de-velopers might be signaling a shift away from energy-gulping air-conditioned beaches and desert-bound ski resorts. Graft Lab is offering up a multi-use complex that could end up scoring a LEED Gold rating. Don't worry Dubai lovers. It's still gaudy.

y-Efficient Gaudiness to Dubai A solar roof provides heated water, and self-shading slabs on the north end of the site eliminate direct sun exposure into the building, cutting down on air-conditioning costs. And of course, the Vertical Village's interlocking slabs are eye-catching, as per Dubai standards. The flailing stock markets in the U.S. and abroad and increasing unemploy-ment may thwart the city's rapid development, but energy-efficient projects like the Vertical Village can at least se-cure a future for some of Dubai's ambitious architectural designs.

Yushang Zhang, Rajiv Sewtahal, Riemer Postma and Qianqian Cai (with studio tutor Alexander Sverd-lov, at The Why Factory of professor Winy Maas (MVRDV) at the TU Delft) shared with us their project, Vertical Village: A Sustainable Way of Village-style Living, which was awarded the first prize in the d3 Housing Tomorrow 2011 Competition. The competi-tion called for transformative solutions that advanced sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through the study of intrinsic environ-mental geometries, social behaviors, urban implica-tions, and programmatic flows.

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Interior space design is also very spacious and comfortable.

Graft Labs Vertical Village in Dubai Has Spider Web of Solar Panels At first glance, Graft Labs dazzling complex in Dubai may appear to have a cluster of sparkling geometric pools at its base. But upon further inspec-tion, the web-like structures are actually something even more desirable than a place to take a dip in the hot desert a means of collecting the scorching rays of the sun and transforming them into energy. Dubbed the Vertical Village, this multi-use building and accompanying massive array of solar collectors was designed to work smarter, not harder, which is expected to earn it a LEED Gold certification when it is completed.

Aside from its energy-harvesting features, the Vertical Village is also quite breathtaking to behold. The way that the buildings have been sliced and tilted gives each one a unique, futuristic look. Residents and visitors will be able to take full advantage of hotels, cinemas, restaurants, shops and a theater.

Design Innovation from Graft Lab Ultra Modern Vertical Vil-lage The architectural building ideas of vertical village design have an innovative and ultra modern design concept. The architects at Graft Lab (also dependable for the exclusive and delicate Bird Island) must have been captivating high-quality explana-tion in their LEED classes since the Vertical Village integrates with the mainly fundamental mantras of energy efficiency in hot climates: plummeting solar gain and optimizing solar produc-tion.

The Netherlands

The Netherlands has some of the largest greenhouduction in the country that in 2000, greenhousestotal land area of the Netherlands.

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uses in the world. Such is the scale of food pro-s occupied 10,526 hectares, or 0.25% of the

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Originally on the estates of the rich, with the growth of the science of botany, greenhouses spread to the universities. The French called their first greenhouses orangeries, since they were used to protect orange trees from freezing. As pineapples became popular pineries, or pineap-ple pits, were built. Experimentation with the de-sign of greenhouses

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tinued during the Seventeenth Century in Europe technology produced better glass and construc-n techniques improved. The greenhouse at the Pal-

of Versailles was an example of their size and borateness; it was more than 500 feet (150 m) g, 42 feet (13 m) wide, and 45 feet (14 m) high.

Green building practices aim to reduce the environmental impact of buildings. Build-ings account for a large amount of land.According to the National Resources Inventory, approximately 107 million acres of land in the United States are developed.

Reducing envir

ronmental impact

The International Energy Agency released a publication that esti-mated that existing buildings are responsible for more that 40% of the worlds total primary energy consumption and for 24% of global carbon dioxide emis-

Goals of green building

The concept of sustainable development can be traced to the energy (especially fossil oil) crisis and the environment pollution concern in the 1970s.The green building movement in the U.S. originated from the need and desire for more en-ergy efficient and environmentally friendly con-struction practices. There are a number of mo-

environmental, economic, and social benefits. How-ever, modern sustainability initiatives call for an in-tegrated and synergistic design to both new con-struction and in the retrofitting of an existing structure. Also known as sustainable design, this approach integrates the building life-cycle with each green practice employed with a design-purpose to create a synergy amongst the prac-tices used.

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International frameworks and assessment tools

IPCC

Clim(ARmatportcal Omen

C Fourth Assessment Report

mate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report R4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-te Change (IPCC), is the fourth in a series of such re-ts. The IPCC was established by the World Meteorologi-Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environ-nt Programme (UNEP) to assess scientific, technical and

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