EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES OF REGENERATIVE DESIGN IN CHINA AND TAIWAN
BAEY YAN LING
BAEY YAN LING
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China faces problems with rapid urbanisation and misuse of resources while Taiwan
faces challenges in water and energy self-sufficiency. Prevailing notions of
sustainable design would not make much impact in tackling these issues, as current
paradigm of sustainable building focuses on the notion of doing less harm or at best
achieving net- zero resource use. The paper will challenge prevailing notions of
sustainable design by introducing the concept of “regenerative design”, which posits
that a design can produce multiple net-positive outcomes in economic, social and
environmental realms (specifically in the case of China and Taiwan).
To illustrate the concept of regenerative design, the paper examines on three case
studies in China Ningbo Eco- Corridor, Shanghai Houtan Park and Taipei Flora Expo
Pavilions. These case studies illustrate the applicability of regenerative design at
building and infrastructural scale, while critically highlighting the differences in
thinking of regenerative design at varying scales. The paper will also critically
analyse current frameworks of regenerative design and for its applicability in China.
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Architecture, Design Technology and Sustainability, DTS, Master (Architecture), Nirmal Kishnani, 2015/2016 Aki DTS, China, Regenerative, Regenerative Design, Sustainability, Systems thinking, Taiwan
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2015-12-09
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