Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Transportation 2015

Session: Architectural Design, Maintenance, Operation and Management

52 articles
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Case Study of “Tegel Circulation Loop” by Technical University Berlin, Germany

Zesong Wei, Caixia Pan
Along with the accelerated development of urbanization process, makes many airports originally located in the outskirts begin to be gradually surrounded by city. How to renovation and reuse of the old airport effectively and reasonably, and alleviate the contradiction between the airport and urban development,...
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An Empirical Study on Property Management Mode of Security Housing Community based on Resident Willingness ——A Case from Guangzhou

Lin Chen, Ziping Zhang, Kaize Wu, Tao Tao, Jianhui Tan
Based on questionnaire surveys and interviews in 6 typical security housing communities in Guangzhou, this paper analyzes residents’ satisfaction evaluation on property management and their choice willingness of management mode in different security housing communities. On this basis, uses logistic regression...
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Research on the Protection of Industrial Heritage under the Cultural and Creative Industries

Han Fang Liu, Wei Jie Li
In the long river of history, the old industrial area unique architectural vocabulary carries unique brilliance of every city in the industrial age . In the respect of history industrial heritage should be better integrated into the development of the city at the same time, this is a problem that need...
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A Study on Influence of Traffic Conditions on Functions of Open Grounds in Residential Quarters

Deqing Bu, Zhao Wang, Bo Zhang
This paper takes some of open grounds in such typical urban residential quarters as HuaQingJiaYuan, FuRunJiaYuan, and GuoDianHuaYuan in Beijing as object of study. At-site survey was conducted based on theories and methods of environmental behavior studies, involving classification of users and activities,...
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Problems of residential building facilities in the Czech Republic

Kuta Dagmar, Ceselsky Jan
The submitted paper deals with the house facilities in residential buildings which is often marginalized when solving problems of residential buildings and their areas. However, the house facilities are one of the factors having a substantial effect on quality of using the residential buildings and subsequently...
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Centrality analysis of metro network, a case study of Paris

Xi Wang, Qingming Zhan, Philippe Bonnin, Stephane Douady
Metro systems are playing an increasingly important role in the cities all around the world, due to the demand of reduction on traffic congestions and energy consumption. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the entering traffic and a new conception of centrality...
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Development of the Hradec Králové - Pardubice agglomeration since 1986

Teslikova Hurdalkova Lucie, Sulcova Jana, Kuta Dagmar
Hradec Králové - Pardubice agglomeration formed an important industrial and agricultural area in the centre of gravity of East Bohemia. Currently, the extensive development of the tertiary sector and important position of the two regional capitals set the pace for the development of logistics centres,...
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Defining Accessibility of Open Space in Relation to Urban configuration: Case Study of Wanchai, Hong Kong

Xiaohong Ling
As one of the high-density cities of the world, Hong Kong is suffering from a limited supply of land for its main urban areas; some open spaces however are frequently criticized as inconvenient for users and consequently ineffectively used. How to improve the performance of open spaces is, therefore,...
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A Case Study on the Conversion of Existing Commercial Buildings into Elderly Welfare Facilities in Japan

H.W. Choi
Recently, Japan with the increase in the cases of using the existing building structures for welfare purposes in recent years is displaying diversity in types of the use of the facilities prior to and following the conversion. In this Study, as the initial stage of the case survey study, cases of the...
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The Sustainable Development Research of Lanzhou Living Environment

Hongfei Li
The living environment is the base of the survival and development of human, its sustainable development is directly related to the extent of human life and it is one of most important content that measure the progress of human society and culture development. With the rapid development of economy and...
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A Study on the Dwelling Unit Pattern For the Home-based Elderly Residents

Bing-Li Chen
A possibility of a new pattern for the dwelling unit for the home-based elderly residents is discussed and the diversification of the residence design is suggested after a study over the current situation in which the dwelling unit design falls into a similar pattern.
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Humanizing Design of Nursing Home Facilities

Deqing Bu, Mengjiao Feng, Bo Zhang
To figure out the needs of senior citizens and build up a good environment is the central issue. An aging population has become one of the most serious issues in today’s society and the pension industry is gradually developing to meet the demand, starting from the perspective of a market economy. Many...
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The Theory of Kindergarten

Wujin Gaowa, Tuo Ya, Wenhui Ming
Kindergarten should create graceful environment to fit in children’s psychological request. In designing master plan of kindergarten, a favorable exterior environment should be created by functional division, entrance setting, building organization and integration of exterior play area, green and roads.Kindergarten...
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Preliminary Study of Urban Design Strategy to Create the Urban Characteristics——Take Baotou City in Inner Mongolia for Example

Yue Wang, Xiaoguang Wang, Weidong Wang
The city’s characteristics have significance for the development of the city. In the process of rapid urbanization, many cities of China are in the crisis of lack of characteristic. This article provides urban design strategies at a macro level to put forward the characteristics in urban design of Baotou...
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The Unique Charm of the Context to the Architectural Environment

Shengxiao Li, Jun Ma, Guanghui Lv
The theoretical summary and example analysis are applied in this article, that study how to make the building environment fully display the history and bring charm characteristics by culture. To carry forward the national essence culture, enable the building environment and culture to the exterior design,...
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Discussion on Architecture Conception

Shengxiao Li, Jun Ma, Ran Bi
There will be creative intention and thinking in any architectural design. Based on some case, this paper explicates methods getting intention. Conditions--questions--are not handicap, are the condition getting valuable, significant intention. Good idea depends on good thoughts, conception is the premise...
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Green Residential District in China from view of Social and Humanity Demand

Yuxiong Zhang, Lei Fan, Huibing Xie, Yuanfeng Wang
Green building is becoming the main trend in current construction industry due to its main characteristics: energy saving, low carbon emission and environmental protection. Exist evaluation systems of green residential districts have little consideration on social and humanity demand. Based on the methods...
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Analysis to determine the average life of the residential building

Cui-Ping Wang
short-lived building received more and more attention . With the assumed distribution function method to measure the life of residential buildings , with the frequency of things occured in n trials to estimate the probability of something happening , make maximum use of fewer lifetime data , and then...
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Research on Development History of Company town in China

Mingming Xiang, Minghong Yu, Guo Li
This paper, from the point of time sequence, classifies Chinese Company Town, and gives a brief overview of Company town’s causes, process and characteristics etc. in the colonial times, period of national capitalist industry and the Third Front Construction period, and the present situation of preservation....
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Research Development of the Traditional and Flexible Shed-holes

Yunfei Luo, Jiao Jiang, Jianrong Yang, Yitang Zhou
Rock-fall impact is the main threat to the roads and bridges. The research background, methodology and literature review are introduced respectively on rock-fall impact to traditional reinforced concrete shed-hole and flexible steel shed-hole. The impact force transmission mechanism is brought into focus....
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Decision-making Method for Low-rent Housing Construction Investment

Wei Zhang, Liwen You
The paper sets up a investment decision-making model with the option game thinking. First, based on the option game features low-rent housing projects have, the paper proposes some research hypotheses on value, benefits, costs for the options. Second, on the basis of the decision-making path of a multi-stage...
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Low Carbon City and Analysis of its Guidance to Urban Planning

Jun Ma, Shengxiao Li, Chaorong Zhang
In this paper, we discuss how to combine the idea of sustainable development with urban planning as a public policy, and support the construction of low carbon cities by scientific and reasonable planning according to the concept of low carbon city. The main points of the paper are the guidance and the...
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The Theory of Practice and Prospect of the Low Carbon City Planning

Jun Ma, Shengxiao Li, Pengcheng Wang
This paper analyzes the relationship of low carbon city and climate change on the background of global warming.Low carbon city construction is the important measures to mitigate climate change crisis.And low carbon urban planning is a key technology of low-carbon urban construction.Research from three...
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Referring Sustainable Waste Management Strategy Drives Life-Cycle Sustainable Building Benefits Of China

Mr. Yunhui Yang, Mr. Yishan Zhao
Construction is one of the major industries that generate wealth to China. Construction industry contribute a large of portion of solid waste stream which causes the grave negative impacts towards environment and ecosystem in China. There are increasingly serious problems that are faced by Chinese government...
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Methodology Analyses of Contextual Landscape Urbanism with Case Study in Different Periods

Qianyi Zhu
This paper analyzes contextual landscape urbanism in different periods via two typical cases. And it explains the reasons that we conserve characteristic and contextual factors in landscape urbanism. Paper claims that accompanying city expanding, it is necessary and important to keep urban’s unique historical...
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Study on Indoor Environment Evaluation and Reconstruction Strategy of Existing Public Buildings in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone

Y.T. Ma, J.T. Weng
This paper analyzes the importance of the indoor environment of existing public buildings based on the present situation. Through the experiment the paper puts up the objective index of typical existing public building’s indoor environment in hot summer and cold winter zone and subjective evaluation...
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BIM Applications in the World

Bizhou Li, Jian Yang
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a powerful tool for architecture, engineering and construction industry. Nowadays, it is widely used in the world. This paper first introduced the development of the design tools, generally three stages, from pen and paper to 3D design with information. Then illustrates...
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Three Museums in Berlin: Study on Protection and Renaissance Strategies of Historic Buildings

Mei Zhao, Haoran Guo, Wei Gao
According to different characteristics of historic buildings, the strategies of the protection and renaissance can be different. Three representative museum buildings and several similar cases are selected in this paper to research the protection and renewal of historic buildings, expecting to promote...
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Research on Design Strategy of Green Building of University Gymnasium in Cold Areas

Weidong Ji, Ming Zhu, Lin Liu, Kai Xv, Feifei Zhang
Green building will be developed towards the direction of low energy consumption, high efficiency and less pollution. This paper is focused on the analysis of design process and application of ecological and energy-saving technique of the gymnasium of Weifang Medical University, with a view to discussing...
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An Analysis of Residential Building Design from the Perspective of Technical Economy

Xue Ting
This paper makes a detailed analysis of the necessity and specific indicator system for technical and economic analysis of residential building design scheme. It points out that different designing schemes may be evaluated by different methods so as to achieve the purposes of being reasonable economically...
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Spatial Analysis on Regional Convergence at County Level in China

Peiyang Chen
The paper judges China’s regional economic growth convergence and analyzes its time-space pattern in 1998-2009 from the county scale with spatial Markov chain statistics method. The research results show that the stability of convergence clubs is featured by belt differentiation, and expressed as being...
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Morphological Transformation of the Wanchai District of Hong Kong

Xiaohong Ling
Analyzing morphological transformation over a long history of time is deemed an effective way to identify the problems occurred in the process of urban development, in addition to achieving a fundamental understating of the socio-cultural changes and growth rooted from the context. Whilst numerous redevelopment...
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Discussion on the Vernacular Architecture Construction in the View of Architectural Typology

Bing Li, Wenbin Liu
There is a certain kind of solid-state balance among individual buildings that within the same Vernacular architecture. Not all the understandings of it has formed the most common specifications and planning textbooks in current architecture, instead, some manifest as silent and hidden constructing principles...
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Construction Project Cost Prediction Based on Genetic Algorithm and Least Squares Support Vector Machine

Ming Xu, Bingfeng Xu, Lanjiang Zhou, Lin Wu
For the small sample data and complex nonlinear characteristic of construction project cost, a new hybrid prediction model combing genetic algorithm and small sample learning model based on least squares support vector machines is proposed. First, all the candidate features are ranked by correlation...
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The preliminary use of green building design in new residential Zhuang kuo flok in Qinghai*

Jiameng Wang, Yibing Jin
Considering for the ecological security strategy and new promoting urbanization, it is important to develop the vernacular architecture in Tibetan plateau which serving as the ecological security barrier in China. With the development of urban and rural integration process as a whole and the popularit...
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A Comparative Study on Literature of Urban Park Research Published During 1983-2013

Tianqing Luo, Ru Chen, Juxia Liang
Urban parks are natural refuges and public recreational resources in municipalities. The profession of landscape architecture was established during the nineteenth-century urban park movement and has been taking developments of the urban park system as its main mission ever since. Experts from various...
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A demand-oriented examination of local park services: Park types, sizes, features and actual use in the City of Los Angeles

Tianqing Luo, Weimin Li
A local-park-dominated and service-oriented urban park system would attract proximate use and benefit residents’ life quality. Park planning literature has established guidelines to measure the level of local park services. However, without empirical research evidence, it is difficult to understand how...
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Design of China's High-level Commercial Residential Product Integrating British Style

Rui Xin Ju, Zi Cheng Zhang
The residence community gradually becomes the main living space of China's large and medium-sized city residents with the development of the internationalization of urban living environment and internationalization process of urbanization. The more international, livable and convince residence community...
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Energy Consumption Status and Characteristics Analysis of University Campus Buildings

Y.T. Ma, M.Y. Lu, J.T. Weng
This paper analyzes the energy status and energy saving measures of the universities in the world based on the current situation of building energy consumption, compares the data including energy consumption per unit area, electric energy consumption per unit area, energy consumption per capita, electric...
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Discussion on Cost management in Project Bidding

Baoxia Cui
Bidding is a major event that affects the construction companies’ survival. This article will propose recommendations on the purpose and principles of bidding, the cost control, and how to improve the input-output ratio of the bidding process.
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Re-thinking of blind pursuit of fanciful buildings in contemporary China

J.T. Weng, Y.T. Ma
Firstly the evolution of evaluation standard of architecture was reviewed, then the ten famous buildings built in National Day of 1959 in Beijing were introduced to compare with ten contemporary Chinese ugly buildings. A reflection on the dangers and root of the present fanciful buildings was made. Finally,...
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Study on the environmental design of residential space for elders with dementia

Jinghua Dai, Dian Zhou, Yishan Xu
Along with the aging process, the number of elders with dementia in China is increasing rapidly. However, both the facilities constructed and policies made for them as well as the relevant research and explanation are almost blank so far. Focused on their special physical and psychological status and...
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Analysis and Suggestions for Standards and Guidelines of Green Campus's Construction

M.Y. Lu, J.T. Weng, Y.T. Ma
Based on the characteristics of development of green campus construction in China, firstly the standards and guidelines green campus's construction made by the central and local government were introduced. The existing problems in the current standards and guidelines are pointed out through the contrast...
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The Mood of Pastoral Poetry Expressed in the Modern Countryside Park Space Design:Take China Meishan Cultural Park for Example

Junting Zhang, Feihu Chen
Because of its profound cultural heritage and aesthetic value, Chinese classical pastoral poetry becomes the fertile ground where spiritual home of descendants inhabits poetically. Its artistic connotation has heuristic origin meaning for the tectonic space of the Chinese perspectives countryside park....
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Study on the Uncertainty in Meishan Culture Park Construction and Art’s Randomness

Yazi Zhong, Feihu Chen
Artistic creation is full of randomness,which means occasionality and unpredictability. Beauty created can not be repeated and it is generated by the random and uncertain. In the postmodernism architecture, uncertainty is the mainstream trend of architecture. Also it will be the future direction of the...
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The Study on Color Design of the Interior Space in the High School Library

Hui Liu, Fei-Hu Chen
Color plays a significant role in the interior space design of high school libraries. From the perspective of the color’s influence on library users, this study analyzes how the scientific use of color can provide readers with high-quality reading atmosphere and explores the new development trends of...
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The Research of 3-D Modeling in the Virtual Campus

Xiaotang Xia
This paper indicates the process of 3D modeling in the building of virtual campus, which focus on the construction of terrain and scene modeling. Then it puts forward the cautions of these modeling processes. Finally, the 3D interaction and spatial analysis are involved.
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The Structural Characteristics and Planning Strategy of the Urban and Rural Elderly Facility System

Yishan Xu, Dian Zhou, Zhe Li, Jinghua Dai
The paper analyses the construction experience and composition characteristics of Hong Kong elderly service facility system, and summarizes the spatial planning features and development pattern. Combining with the current development in mainland, this article gives suggestion to construct a reasonable...
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A review of building occupants adaptive behavior in buildings of China

Song Pan, Lang Xie, Shen Wei, Yunmo Wang, Chuanqi Xu, Xinru Wang, Yanan Zhang
In order to realize the sustainable development of society, building energy consumption has become a global concern. In buildings, occupants adaptive behaviors that means how to use the buildings have an very important influence on the building energy use. The researches of occupants adaptive behaviors...
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Green Technology’s Effect on Sustainable Office Property Development in Sydney

Qiao Ning, Tingting Cao
The promotion of green technologies in office property developments has triggered a series of changes in the existing market. Firstly, this paper examines the existing office property market based on the Office Market Report 2014 by Property Council of Australia which illustrates the demand for sustainable...
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Application of Chinese ancient architecture elements in product design

Mei Yang, Huan Yin
Research the method of blending Chinese ancient architecture into product design. From two sides of the overall features and characteristics of each part,summarized the artistic characteristics of Chinese ancient architecture. Enumerated examples of the comparison of morphology, structure and hue between...
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The Characteristics and Protection Strategies of Cultural Ancestral Temple Building in Hebei village fortresses——the case of Yuxian

Xiuping Zhao, Rui Nie, Hui Zhang, Dan Xie
In the traditional agricultural society, the temple is the religion-centric of the village settlement. In the villages of Yuxian fortresses, all have their own unique ancestral temple buildings which not only provide the place for residents praying, but also are local social place for defence, culture...